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Eligible Pro $200 users keep prior usage through October 29

OpenAI now dates the Pro $200 transition. Eligible subscribers retain their previous allowance through October 29, 2026. The qualifying cutoff and its timezone remain unstated.

RECEIPT · @thsottiaux · posted 30 Sep 2026 · 01:07 UTC · captured 30 Sep 2026

I got community noted, but the note is wrong 😅 Your primary dot is included in your plan and will be available 24/7. If you ask it to create a codex task for you, that one will be drawing usage as usual. But when your dot does work directly, that uses nothing and is all on top of your plans usage. In the future you will be able to increase the speed and allow your dot to have more bandwidth, this will be a paid feature, but the baseline functionality will always just be included in your plan.

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I got community noted, but the note is wrong 😅 Your primary dot is included in your plan and will be available 24/7. If you ask it to create a codex task for you, that one will be drawing usage as usual. But when your dot does work directly, that uses nothing and is all on top of your plans usage. In the future you will be able to increase the speed and allow your dot to have more bandwidth, this will be a paid feature, but the baseline functionality will always just be included in your plan.

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• @thsottiaux · 30 Sep 2026 @kr0der Yes, check email
• @thsottiaux · 30 Sep 2026 @_ak_111 Basically
• @_ak_111 · 30 Sep 2026 Bruh what? 😭 OpenAI says Dots usage won’t count toward eligible plans’ usage allowances for the first month And Dots are powered by GPT-6 Astra 👀 Is OpenAI basically giving us unlimited Astra-powered Dots for launch?
• @kr0der · 30 Sep 2026 i randomly saw that i have 62,393 credits in Codex so i checked how much $ that would cost normally 25,000 credits is $1.5k AUD so this is about $3.7k AUD (~$2.5k USD) thanks OpenAI for the free credits (is this due to the $200 plan change?) and also the extra banked reset 🫡 https://t.co/8OqP4JxaZO
• @thsottiaux · 29 Sep 2026 Announcing dots. Dots work 24/7 for you, learn from your feedback, have their own computer, browser and can be connected to over 4k apps in our ecosystem. They’re powered by Astra our best model yet. Included in your Pro plan, without drawing down on any of your usage. You can even call a dot while it’s working. We’re getting you started with your primary dot today and soon you’ll be able to create entire teams of them.
• @thsottiaux · 29 Sep 2026 Dots are included in all Pro, Business Premium and Enterprise plans. This includes the Pro 100 plan. We’ll be looking to further expand access soon.
• @OpenAI · 29 Sep 2026 Dots will be available in ChatGPT on web, mobile, and desktop across Pro, Business Premium, and Enterprise users in eligible markets. To get started, create your first dot in the ChatGPT desktop app or your desktop browser, connect your apps, and let it introduce itself.
• @thsottiaux · 29 Sep 2026 You can now use your ChatGPT subscription directly in over 60 partners products. No little rules, you can just use all your included usage right there. This includes things such as Devin, OpenCode, Lovable, and many more. Sign in with ChatGPT and go.
• @thsottiaux · 29 Sep 2026 I’ll explain the new Pro 200 plan differently, before I start live tweeting from DevDay on things that are going out! Today we are going to ship a number of things that increase what you can do across the Plus and Pro plans. A lot of compute is online for this increase. As we increase the floor, we are changing the relative difference between plans to be Plus = 1X Pro 100 = 5X Pro 200 = 10X and we are reopening subscriptions for Pro 200 (we had paused it). If you have an existing plan you will keep the 20X multiplier for a bit and also receive a lot of additional credits because we know changes are hard even if it means that everyone will get more in the end.
• @thsottiaux · 29 Sep 2026 Hi, Tomorrow we are re-opening the Pro $200 subscriptions to new subscribers, but together with it we are also changing how we calculate the usage for it. In effect, if you do the math, it will net out at half the dollar in API spend compared to the old Pro $200 plan. Now that it's said, let me explain why this is happening and why you will still get more work done than if you were on the Pro $200 subscription one month ago. (a) We didn't want to compromise in other ways and are committing to not reintroducing the 5h limit, so that you can fully use the weekly usage when you want. (b) On the subscription, we guarantee that over time you always get more work done and with an increasing level of quality. This means that you will continue to get more value per dollar spent as a result of models getting more efficient and us passing down the improvements in the form of API price reductions. (c) We don't want to put an incentive on ourselves to artificially inflate the API list prices to make it look like you are getting a lot (and workaround it through discounts, etc). Instead we want to continue to both rapidly reduce prices and increase capabilities of models on the API. This week we introduced GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna at 50% of their previous price. Over time, we see prices go low enough that it makes sense for most to buy usage as needed without there being a significant gap between what you get in a subscription and what you get in the API for a dollar spent. (d) Tomorrow, we are adding more things to the subscription that won't draw on the usage, I won't reveal what that is yet. I wanted to be transparent before all the big announcements tomorrow. Lots of new exciting things are coming to the subscriptions that will make it super compelling, but I wanted to make sure to share this change ahead of time so you can all understand it before we shower you with good news. Codexingly, Tibo
• @thsottiaux · 29 Sep 2026 You can now use your ChatGPT subscription directly in over 16 partners products. No little rules, you can just use all your included usage right there. This includes things such as Devin, OpenCode, Notion, and many more. Sign in with ChatGPT and go.
• @OpenAIDevs · 29 Sep 2026 Ultrafast is available for Astra in Codex and ChatGPT Work on Enterprise plans, and through the new Pro 500 plan. Ultrafast for Astra is also available to all developers via the API. Ultrafast for GPT-6.1 Sol is coming soon. https://t.co/BFrDrSioTV
• @OpenAI · 29 Sep 2026 Ultrafast is available today for GPT-6 Astra in Codex, ChatGPT Work, and the API, with GPT-6.1 Sol coming soon. To access it in Codex and ChatGPT Work, we’re introducing Pro 500—a new plan with our highest usage limits (25x Plus) and access to Ultrafast. https://t.co/AjmAVwyUQI

“If you have an existing plan you will keep the 20X multiplier for a bit”

Updated September 30 at 12:15 UTC: current OpenAI help resolves the previously unknown duration of the Pro $200 transition. The earlier Tibo statement remains below as historical context.

Newly verified help terms: Pro $200 active at the eligibility cutoff or in the preceding seven days qualifies while the subscription remains active. Eligible lapsed subscribers can resubscribe. After October 29, the allowance decreases; price stays $200/month. The page omits the cutoff timestamp and transition timezone. This is newly verified coverage, not evidence that the policy changed today. Source: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9793128-about-chatgpt-pro-tiers.

Usage clarification, reviewed September 30 at 07:12 UTC: the current official pages describe a first dot included in Pro and Business Premium and an allowance for deeper work, with higher limits during the first month after launch. No allowance quantity, exact ending timestamp or timezone is supplied. Conversations do not count toward ChatGPT usage; Codex and ChatGPT Work tasks do. This more specific description qualifies our earlier broad direct-work wording. Sources: https://openai.com/index/introducing-dots/ and https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001530-getting-started-with-your-dot.

A new 06:53 UTC Tibo reply says “Basically” to a community question about unlimited Astra-powered dots for launch. We verified the reply and parent, but do not turn that shorthand into an unlimited-use guarantee or infer that ordinary Codex tasks are free. The current English help page uses deeper-work allowance language; an indexed localized help result still showed broader month-long wording. We use the current original pages. Sources: https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2105189201679630385 and https://x.com/_ak_111/status/2105136201078616441.

Access clarification: the current help page excludes the EEA, Switzerland and UK for Pro, while Business Premium is available across supported ChatGPT regions. Enterprise beta, including Edu and Healthcare, starts disabled and requires workspace-admin enablement. Access can take several days. This is more specific than the recap’s general eligible-markets wording; it does not verify access on an individual account.

Credit follow-up, September 30 at 05:49 UTC: @kr0der reports a Codex credit balance, asks whether it relates to the $200 plan change and separately mentions an extra banked reset. Tibo replies “Yes, check email.” X syndication verifies both original posts and the reply relationship. We read this as an affirmative answer to the plan-change question, not a blanket endorsement of every claim in the parent. The user’s balance and currency estimate do not establish an offer available to everyone; the email itself was not supplied or inspected. Sources: https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2105173168281506088 and https://x.com/kr0der/status/2105157445857538064.

OpenAI’s 17:57 UTC post introduces Pro 500 with 25× Plus usage limits and Ultrafast access in Codex and ChatGPT Work. OpenAI Developers later confirms Enterprise access too. GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast is available today; GPT-6.1 Sol Ultrafast is coming soon. The API also offers Ultrafast, but the posts do not establish that API billing is included in a ChatGPT subscription. Source: https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/2104996069239328856.

Clarification, September 30 at 01:07 UTC: Tibo says the primary dot is included and available around the clock. Direct dot work sits on top of plan usage, but creating a Codex task uses the ordinary allowance. He describes future paid speed and bandwidth upgrades without a price, launch date or quantity, and says baseline functionality will remain included. Our earlier broad no-usage wording now includes this Codex-task exception. Source: https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2105102312167575701.

Tibo’s 17:06 UTC dots announcement said the feature was included in Pro without drawing down usage; the September 30 clarification above distinguishes direct work from Codex tasks. His later clarification includes Pro 100. OpenAI’s DevDay recap adds access conditions: Pro and Business Premium in eligible markets; Enterprise, Edu and Healthcare can try a beta only when their workspace admin enables it. That beta is off by default. These announcements do not prove access on every account.

The dots sources are https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2104981170685616361, https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2104989161774322009 and https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2104984508454121795. Dots identify one feature absent from the earlier Pro policy explanation.

Correction, 19:06 UTC: our earlier article cited Tibo’s 17:47 UTC statement of more than 60 partner products. His post, edited at 18:46 UTC, says over 16 and names Devin, OpenCode and Notion. OpenAI’s DevDay recap specifies 16 participating partners, with plan usage available to Plus and Pro users. We now use the provider recap’s count. Eligible usage counts toward existing plan limits; this is not another allowance. The earlier receipt is retained. Sources: https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2105006253986738615 and https://openai.com/index/devday-2026-recap/.

The earlier 15:10 UTC explanation sets Plus at 1×, Pro $100 at 5× and Pro $200 at 10×. It promised existing Pro $200 subscribers 20× temporarily and additional credits. The current help terms above now qualify eligibility and date that temporary allowance. That earlier post supplied no transition cutoff, credit amount, expiry, redemption method or delivery confirmation. The September 30 reply above now links one reported credit case to the transition; general terms and universal delivery remain unverified. Source: https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2104951965184925941.

The 06:41 UTC post described the revised Pro $200 allowance as half the previous API-dollar spend and committed not to restore a five-hour limit. The later posts add transition details and new features without specifying absolute token balances. The first post said tomorrow and the follow-up said today; an exact effective time and timezone remain unstated. Source: https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2104823812042940713.

Community posts during DevDay report a banked reset and show a reset-button moment. We verified those community originals and inspected the images, but have not verified a corresponding provider reset statement or the livestream segment. A photograph alone cannot establish eligibility, mechanics or delivery. This policy update therefore leaves reset history, calendar and confirmed-reset subscriber feed unchanged.

The September 22 banked-grant announcement remains separate: its Tuesday/3am hint still has no verified timezone, and universal delivery is unresolved. The September 26 next-week statement remains a Strong signal in the audit trail; today’s policy posts do not complete that promise.

Verification: author and posting times were checked through X syndication; the edited partner statement is complete in the original syndicated text, whose edit history links it to the earlier over-60 version. The original dots and earlier Pro policy articles were read directly. OpenAI’s DevDay recap was read through web retrieval; direct HTTP access returned 403. Public timeline restrictions and bounded recent-post feeds prevent complete discovery coverage. The complete September 30 dots clarification was also verified in the original X article; syndicated text truncates its ending.