A research brief, a presentation or a small app can take several rounds with an AI assistant. OpenAI is giving some paying customers more room for that work. Its 29 October change raises Work and Codex allowances on Pro and Business Premium, and withdraws a planned reduction for Pro 200. The increase is not identical for every subscriber.
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Who gets more room?
OpenAI’s release notes spell out the Pro distinction: Pro 100 and Pro 500 receive twice their previous Work and Codex allowance. Pro 200 customers on the lower allowance move up to the higher one; customers who already had that higher allowance retain it. The reduction announced in a September email has been cancelled.
Tibo, whose profile identifies his work on Codex and ChatGPT at OpenAI, includes Business Premium in the doubling announcement. Plus and Business Standard are outside the plans named in this change.
The original announcement includes higher allowances and the reversal of the planned Pro 200 reduction.
View the original post on X ↗The 29 October change, by plan
Work and Codex allowance · compared with the customer’s previous allowance.
| Plan or existing allowance | What changes |
|---|---|
| Pro 100 | Doubles |
| Pro 500 | Doubles |
| Pro 200 · lower allowance | Doubles to the higher allowance |
| Pro 200 · already higher | Keeps that allowance; planned cut cancelled |
| Business Premium | Doubling announced by OpenAI’s Tibo |
More allowance, not a fixed number of jobs
Work is ChatGPT’s assistant for longer tasks and finished deliverables; Codex focuses on software development. The two share usage. For someone researching a market and then building a small tool, those activities draw on the same allowance.
OpenAI’s pricing guide says consumption varies with the model, task complexity, context and tools used. A longer research job can consume more than a short revision. That makes the account’s usage dashboard a more useful check than translating the announcement into a guaranteed number of presentations or apps.
API-key usage is billed separately. The practical gain here is a larger included budget—or keeping the larger budget you already had—rather than evidence that the assistant finishes work faster or needs less checking.
Sources
- 29 October Work and Codex allowance changes
OpenAI · Announcement ·
- Original allowance announcement
Tibo · OpenAI · Announcement ·
- Work and Codex explained
OpenAI · Documentation
- Shared usage, task consumption and API billing
OpenAI · Documentation
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