OpenAI ended the Pro 200 legacy allowance today, so from October 30 the same $200 a month buys half the Codex and ChatGPT Work usage.
If your team pays $200 a month for ChatGPT Pro 200 to help write code, you get less for that money starting tomorrow. OpenAI ended the plan's legacy allowance today. From October 30, the same price buys half the usage of Codex, its AI coding tool, and of ChatGPT Work.
The cut arrived with a new plan. Pro 500 costs $500 a month and now sits above Pro 200 as the high-usage option. It offers 25 times the Plus allowance, the highest cap OpenAI sells.
Pro 500 also has exclusive access to Astra Ultrafast. That is a faster version of GPT-6 Astra. OpenAI says it produces text at up to eight times the normal speed inside Codex, roughly 300 tokens per second. A token is a small chunk of text that an AI reads or writes. Pro 200 and Pro 100 do not get Ultrafast, even if you buy extra credits.
In practice, $200 now buys half of what it used to. Getting the top speed and cap means paying $500.
The main group is Pro 200 subscribers who lean on Codex for real work, such as founders and developers. Their usable allowance shrinks overnight, not gradually, so any budget built around the old limit needs a second look.
Some users say the drop came early. Several posts on OpenAI's community forum say usage fell well before the promised October 30 date. One thread asks OpenAI to explain publicly whether Pro 200 Codex usage is being reduced early. It also complains of silent throttling and unclear rules on when caps begin.
One developer who runs Codex and Anthropic's Claude Code side by side shared his numbers. He tracked 1.4 billion Codex tokens a week before OpenAI shipped Astra, about half that afterward, and expects roughly a quarter of the original once the cut lands. He measured his $200 Claude plan at 3.5 billion tokens a month. These are one person's figures, not an official comparison.
The change does not touch API billing. The API is how developers connect their own software to OpenAI's models, and it is billed by the token. ChatGPT Plus and Pro plans have never included API credits, and that has not changed. Headlines about large credit amounts should not be read as ongoing API spend to make up for the cut.
The steps in the alert box above cover the checks to run before October 30. The key move is to see how much of your old allowance you actually use, then decide whether half of it is enough.
The material does not say whether OpenAI has answered the forum complaints or will change course. It also does not say how the early drops some users report happened. Some Reddit users have said they are going back to Claude, so watch how OpenAI responds and whether more teams switch tools.
Check your Codex usage before October 30, because Pro 200 gives half the old allowance from that date and API use is still billed separately.
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