OpenAI relaunches its $200 Pro plan: price remains unchanged, API equivalent usage halved.

Beating AI News Flash: OpenAI will re-open its $200 monthly Pro 20x plan, but the plan’s usage algorithm has also been revised. Tibo Sottiaux explicitly noted that when converted to equivalent API costs, the new plan is only about half as expensive as the old version. While the price remains unchanged, the most definite change is a shrinkage in equivalent API quotas. As for what the adjusted 20x multiplier will be, OpenAI has not yet disclosed it. OpenAI’s reasoning is that API prices for the Sol and Luna models have just dropped by roughly 50%, and models will grow increasingly efficient over time, meaning fewer "dollar quotas" could still complete similar or even more work. This logic may hold for models whose prices have halved simultaneously, but it does not apply to all models. There is currently no measured data from the old and new plans to back up the claim of "being able to do more work". Additionally, Pro 20x usage has long been insufficiently transparent. Over the past few weeks, a large volume of user feedback has emerged across GitHub and OpenAI communities: weekly quotas have suddenly dropped sharply, reset times have shifted, or long-context and multi-Agent tasks consume far more than expected. Some users also reported that a single Astra Ultra task consumed about 2.4 Pro 20x weekly quotas in just 5.2 hours.