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GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price

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  1. Aboutplants · · focus · HN ↗
    “OpenAI's new Pro 500 plan offers OpenAI's highest usage allowance and comes with access to its new "Ultrafast" feature — it also costs $500 per month.

    At the same time, OpenAI is also making its existing $200 Pro plan less appealing. In Codex and Work, $200 Pro subscribers will see their included usage decrease from 20x of what the company offers to Plus users, down to 10x of that same allowance. In ChatGPT, meanwhile, GPT-6 Pro message caps will decrease from 200 to 100 per week.”

    <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.engadget.com&#x2F;2272106&#x2F;openai-adds-dollar500-pro-subscription-nerfs-its-existing-dollar200-tier&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.engadget.com&#x2F;2272106&#x2F;openai-adds-dollar500-pro-s...

    Yikes

    1. TomGarden · · focus · HN ↗
      They&#x27;re really (finally?) starting to behave like a company bleeding money.

      Our VC-backed subscription days are numbered

      1. [deleted] · · focus · HN ↗

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      2. m3kw9 · · focus · HN ↗
        I&#x27;m ok with whatever price they give out given they are not a monopoly and have competition, the lock in is minimum for me. This means they have legit reasons to send us this price plan. I don&#x27;t believe they would shoot themselves in the foot when there is cut throat competition (Claude&#x2F;opensource) out there.

        Lastly, I&#x27;d like to actually use it in the real world to see how far my plan goes or if its unusable.

      3. glaslong · · focus · HN ↗
        Alas, I did enjoy burning investor money on my taxis, movies and tokens.
      4. onlyrealcuzzo · · focus · HN ↗
        &gt; Our VC-backed subscription days are numbered

        Well, the time it takes to compress frontier intelligence down to DeepSeek V4.1 Flash costs (basically too cheap to meter) is dropping, and the differential between the two is also dropping...

        So... who cares?

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