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

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Aboutplants · 1790703271 · 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://www.engadget.com/2272106/openai-adds-dollar500-pro-subscription-nerfs-its-existing-dollar200-tier/" rel="nofollow">https://www.engadget.com/2272106/openai-adds-dollar500-pro-s...
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1. torginus · 1790704798 · focus · HN ↗
  I think that's by design - they're going to IPO soon so if they can get a significant percentage of users to switch from the $200 to the $500, they can 2.5x projected revenue.
  1. glub · 1790705290 · focus · HN ↗
    Yeah, that's not going to happen. They are more likely to lose a lot of customers, unless Anthropic does the same thing.
    But $200 is likely the ceiling of what people will pay for a subscription with usage based on vibes.
    seizethecheese · 1790711866 · focus · HN ↗
    [delayed]
    glub · 1790712197 · focus · HN ↗
    > People said the same about $200 a month
    This is missing an important context. And I actually remember this well, because I was saying that too. And the reason I was saying is that $200 plan didn't come with API usage, it was a chat plan.
    It made no sense up until they started including API usage. Just as $500 makes no sense now.
    seizethecheese · 1790712745 · focus · HN ↗
    [delayed]
    glub · 1790712891 · focus · HN ↗
    You could only use it on chatgpt.com
    Now you can use it in coding harnesses that call the API.
    kadushka · 1790771053 · focus · HN ↗
    Just as $500 makes no sense now
    Why? You can use in codex, right?

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