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# OpenAI Halves API Usage Value of $200 Pro Plan

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**Published:** 2026-09-29T06:51:56.000Z
**Category:** Products
**Topics:** openai, llm, gpt, agent, inference, llm\-pricing, subscription

## Summary

Users will find a revised usage system when enrollment for the top tier subscription restarts tomorrow, which reduces the proportional API spending power to 50% of previous levels\. OpenAI is reopening the $200 Pro plan but limiting the value of credits compared to the earlier version of the offer\. To maintain flexibility, the company will not reintroduce the 5 hour rate limit that previously restricted how quickly users could spend their weekly allocation\. This update follows the launch of GPT\-6 Sol and GPT\-6 Luna this week at 50% of their previous API prices\. OpenAI's strategy is to avoid inflating list prices while passing efficiency gains from newer models to subscribers through lower on\-demand costs\. New subscription features that do not draw on usage quotas will also be introduced tomorrow to increase overall productivity per dollar\.

## Sources

- [Story source](<https://huggingnews.com/ai/openai-halves-api-usage-value-of-200-pro-plan-9b410e2c>)
- [Story source](<https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2104823812042940713>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/scaling01/status/2104825230266863763>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2104825043603673165>)
- [Story source](<https://marketbrief.now/ai/openai-halves-api-usage-value-of-200-pro-plan-9b410e2c>)
- [Story source](<https://the-decoder.com/openai-reopens-its-200-pro-plan-but-cuts-api-credits-in-half-as-it-nudges-users-toward-pay-per-use/>)
- [Story source](<https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2104951965184925941>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/theo/status/2104825448597479886>)