OpenAI reinstates 5-hour usage limit for Plus and Business Standard users
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OpenAI has brought back the 5-hour usage limit for ChatGPT Plus and Business Standard subscribers, a change that explains why limits have behaved so differently than last week. The author notes this also makes limit resets significantly less valuable.
In case you're wondering why the limits behave so very different from last week.
- paxys
People should realize by now that they aren't giving out thousands of dollars worth of compute in a $20 subscription out of the goodness of their hearts. The base level plans aren't meant for any kind of serious work beyond the equivalent of Google searches. At best treat it like a trial.
- watty
Session limits are obnoxious and make Codex much less useful for me. I tend to code in spurts when I find some time and the $20 weekly limit was reasonable for my side projects.
I'm now hitting the session limits which means I can either purchase another plan, upgrade, or move off of Codex.
- CSMastermind
Once they capature enough marketshare prices and restrictions are both going to skyrocket. The difference between the subscription usage and API pricing are stark.
- minimaxir
In hindsight, this makes more sense with the release of Astra. The $100/mo is now a more compelling upsell.
- redox99
5h limits are awful. It means it is literally unable to complete a large task.
A better approach if they want to balance the load is having higher usage or lower usage consumption at different times of day.
- robotswantdata
This is very fair. Compared to Claude the Codex limits are much better and smarter model.
- ttul
My goodness, the complaining... Just get all your devs a $200 ChatGPT Pro (20x) plan. Yes, you lose the "team" component, but you gain so much more. And what's $200 against the salary of a good developer? It's absolutely inconsequential, even in far cheaper non-US salary regimes.
- estebarb
I dislike this approach. In my opinion it is much useful a 1x/2x billing based on hour like Deepseek does. Being unable to use it at the hours I need it makes me want to remove the service, not upgrading it.