OpenAI now sells three ChatGPT tiers, with a new $500-a-month Pro subscription sitting above the old $200 plan.
OpenAI has introduced a $500 monthly subscription, the priciest consumer plan the company has offered. It launches alongside changes to the existing $200-a-month Pro tier, though OpenAI has not published a full breakdown of what those changes are or whether any $200-tier features are moving up to the new plan. The company also has not detailed what the $500 tier includes that the $200 tier lacks. Until OpenAI clarifies both sides of that split, the practical impact on current subscribers is unconfirmed.
A $500 price point is a bet that some users will pay five times what a Pro subscription cost yesterday for whatever comes next - likely aimed at power users, developers, or businesses for whom that gap is a rounding error. It also puts a real question in front of $200 subscribers: are they losing something, or just getting a pricier neighbor tier they can ignore?
OpenAI has escalated pricing before - the $200 tier itself was a jump past the original $20 plan - so a $500 rung fits the pattern, even if nobody outside the company can yet say exactly what it buys.