OpenAI re-opens Pro $200 plan with halved effective usage; Pro 500 tier appears: the jokes
What happened
OpenAI announced it is re-opening the $200 Pro subscription to new subscribers and changing how usage is calculated. The post said the new plan works out to about half the API-equivalent spend of the old Pro $200 plan. A help page for a 'ChatGPT Pro 500' plan also appeared.
- OpenAI: Tomorrow we are re-opening the Pro $200 subscription (twitter.com)
- ChatGPT Pro 500 (help.openai.com)
15 private thoughts from Sam Altman, ranked by readers
Sam Altman, internallyOpenAI CEOPhoto: 首相官邸ホームページ / Office of the Prime Minister of Japan Official Website, CC BY 4.0- 1
“Pro is back" tested way better than "Pro now gets you half as much.”
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“Halving the $200 plan wasn't a cut, it was the sales pitch for the $500 one.”
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“I wrote "if you do the math" because I was sure nobody would do the math.”
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“Who let me tell paying customers to do the math?”
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“Some people actually used everything they paid $200 for, so now nobody gets to.”
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“We reopened the doors and new people lined up to pay double, I love new customers.”
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“Pro 500 has such a nice ring to it, like a race car, or next year's price.”
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“We halved the plan and the headlines called it a comeback, best price hike ever.”
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“Nothing says triumphant return like the same $200 buying half as much.”
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“Nobody wanted a $500 plan until we made the $200 one worse.”
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“Cut the $200 plan in half and suddenly $500 looks like a bargain.”
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“Telling users to do the math was fine until they asked our chatbot to do it.”
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“Honestly the old Pro crowd was freeloading off the $200 they paid us.”
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“New subscribers get half the plan for the same $200 and they're thanking us for reopening.”
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“Pro 500 sounds so premium, nobody will guess Pro 1000 is next.”
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