OpenAI cancelled the planned cut to ChatGPT Pro 200 usage on October 29, 2026, the day before it was due to take effect, and doubled Work and Codex usage limits for Pro 100, Pro 200, Pro 500, and Business Premium at unchanged prices. The reversal matters because it was aimed at the company's most committed subscribers, the developers and heavy users most likely to notice a smaller allowance, and because OpenAI still does not publish the absolute limits it just doubled.
What changed, tier by tier
The announcement came from Thibault Sottiaux, known as Tibo, who leads Codex and ChatGPT Work at OpenAI, in a post on X on October 29, 2026. His words were direct: "We are doubling all usage limits for all Pro 100/200/500 tiers and Business Premium, effective today." On Pro 200 specifically, he added: "We heard your kind feedback and won't be reducing usage limits for Pro 200, so your Work and Codex usage will stay the same." No action is required from subscribers, since OpenAI applied the higher limits to eligible accounts immediately.
| Plan | Monthly price | What changed on October 29, 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Pro 100 | 100 dollars | Work and Codex usage allowance doubled |
| Pro 200 | 200 dollars | Planned cut cancelled; all Pro 200 subscriptions levelled to the higher allowance |
| Pro 500 | 500 dollars | Work and Codex usage allowance doubled |
| Business Premium | Business pricing | Work and Codex usage allowance doubled |
| Plus | 20 dollars | Unchanged; this announcement does not add Plus capacity |
The doubling applies to the shared ChatGPT Work and Codex allowance, not to every limit on the account. That distinction is the whole story for anyone deciding whether to upgrade, stay, or downgrade, and it is easy to miss in a headline that just says limits doubled.
Pro 200: the cut that never happened
At DevDay on September 29, 2026, OpenAI told Pro 200 subscribers that their included Work and Codex usage would fall from 20 times the Plus allowance to 10 times, starting October 30, 2026, at the same 200 dollars a month. Existing subscribers kept the old 20 times allowance through October 29 as a grace period. New subscribers who joined after the plan reopened on September 30 were already on the lower 10 times allowance. The planned cut would therefore have doubled the cost of each unit of usage for the longest-standing Pro 200 subscribers, from 10 dollars per Plus-sized allowance to 20 dollars, matching Plus itself.
The chart shows why the reversal reads as more than a reprieve. The planned line drops by half. The actual line stays flat. For a Pro 200 subscriber who was preparing to switch plans because of the announced cut, the practical result is that the previous Work and Codex usage stays in place, and the announcement frames that kept allowance as part of a doubling across the Pro tiers. Whether an individual subscriber experiences that as a doubling depends on which allowance they were on before October 29, which is exactly why the article states the change in both forms: the announced doubling, and the kept allowance for existing Pro 200 subscribers.
Why the cut was planned, and why it fell apart
OpenAI has not published a cost explanation for the planned cut, and this article does not invent one. What is on the record is the sequence. On September 29, the company announced the reduction alongside the reopened Pro tiers. On October 29, one day before the deadline, it reversed course after customer feedback. The speed of the reversal, and the fact that it went further than restoring the old allowance by doubling limits across the Pro tiers, suggests the company judged the backlash from power users to be more costly than the capacity the cut would have saved. That is a judgment about subscriber trust, not a measured cost figure, and it should be read as such.
This is also the second Pro benefit change in a week, and the two benefits are different things that readers keep confusing. Usage limits govern how much Work and Codex work a subscription includes. API credits, which OpenAI added for Pro and Business subscribers days earlier, govern how much API spend a subscriber can claim each month. If you want the credits side of the story, including the claim-or-lose rule and the 500 dollar Business cap, read our earlier report on ChatGPT Pro API credits, because a subscriber who understands only one of the two benefits will misjudge what their plan actually buys.
What the doubling does not cover
Four limits stay where they were. First, ChatGPT Plus limits are unchanged. Second, the weekly cap on GPT-6 Pro messages inside regular Chat is unchanged for most subscribers, except Pro 200 subscribers who were on the lower allowance, whose weekly cap rises to match the higher level. Third, Dots, OpenAI's always-on assistants, keep their own extended limits, and Dots usage stays separate from the Work and Codex allowance, with OpenAI saying only that the extended Dots limits continue "for now", without saying how long. Fourth, and most important for verification, OpenAI does not publish exact numerical usage limits for any tier, so no subscriber can check the doubling against a published absolute figure. The doubling is real as an announced change, and unverifiable as a counted number, and both halves of that sentence belong in any honest report.
One reported sweetener also stays unresolved. Reporting on the planned cut described a one-time grant of 62,500 usage credits, valued by OpenAI at 2,500 dollars, expiring December 31, 2026, offered to existing Pro 200 subscribers. OpenAI has not said what happens to that grant now that the cut is cancelled. Until the company says so, treat the grant as unconfirmed, not as compensation that survived the reversal.
The December catch to watch
A separate report, spotted by Tibor Blaho in the ChatGPT web app, deserves attention precisely because it is not yet a confirmed policy. A hidden shared usage limit checkout disclaimer in the app says that starting in December, plan usage will have a shared limit across all of ChatGPT and Codex. If that disclaimer describes a real change, the December question becomes whether a shared limit shrinks the combined room a subscriber gets, even after an October doubling. This article reports the disclaimer as an app-surface report, not as an OpenAI policy announcement, because no company statement confirming it was found. The test is simple: watch what OpenAI announces for December, and compare the combined ChatGPT plus Codex room before and after, rather than trusting either month's headline alone.
How to read a limits announcement with no numbers
Pro tiers are sold in Plus multiples, which is a ratio, not a cap you can count. A ratio tells you how plans compare to each other. It does not tell you how many tasks, messages, or agent runs you get. Three questions turn a ratio announcement into a usable answer. First, which pool changed: Work and Codex, regular Chat, or Dots, since each pool has its own limit. Second, what was the subscriber on before: the grace-period allowance, the new-subscriber allowance, or the doubled allowance, since the same announcement means different things for each group. Third, what is shared and what is separate: a shared December limit would change the arithmetic even if no single pool's number moved. Ask those three questions about any future limits announcement, and the headline will stop being the whole story.
By ByteHerald Staff. OpenAI announcement by Thibault Sottiaux on X, October 29, 2026, doubling Work and Codex usage limits for Pro 100, Pro 200, Pro 500, and Business Premium and cancelling the planned Pro 200 cut. ghacks, October 30, 2026, reporting the doubling effective October 29, the dropped Pro 200 reduction, separate Dots limits, and that OpenAI publishes no exact numerical limits per tier. StartupFortune, October 30, 2026, reporting the planned Pro 200 cut from 20 times to 10 times the Plus allowance, announced at DevDay on September 29 and due October 30, with Plus unchanged. thehype.news, updated October 29, 2026, reporting the September 29 announcement, the grace period through October 29, new subscribers on the lower allowance since September 30, and the reported 62,500-credit grant valued at 2,500 dollars expiring December 31, 2026, whose fate after the reversal is unconfirmed. Tibor Blaho's checkout-notice report, October 30, 2026, reporting a hidden ChatGPT web app disclaimer that plan usage will have a shared limit across ChatGPT and Codex starting in December.
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