OpenAI Pauses New $200 Pro Subscriptions As Astra Demand Overwhelms Capacity
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OpenAI Pauses New $200 Pro Subscriptions As Astra Demand Overwhelms Capacity
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OpenAI stops selling its $200 Pro plan to protect Astra capacity for existing users; other plans and the API stay open, and Tibo Sottiaux calls the demand unprecedented.
- 01. New Pro subscriptions paused; existing Pro users unaffected, every other plan on sale, API untouched
- 02. Sottiaux called Astra demand unprecedented and steeper than anything OpenAI had seen through years of very steep growth
OpenAI has paused new subscriptions to its $200 ChatGPT Pro plan. Tibo Sottiaux, who runs Codex and ChatGPT, said Pro accounts put the most strain on the system and this was the smallest step that keeps the broadest access open. Existing Pro subscribers, all other plans and the API are unaffected. The day before he called Astra demand unprecedented.
