ChatGPT Pro's old $200 plan gets halved; the new $500 plan restores the original limits

Looks like the era of subsidised compute is coming to an end. The old ChatGPT Pro $200 20x plan will be halved. The new $500 plan will have similar limits as the (old) $200 plan.

A Reddit user shared a screenshot showing OpenAI is cutting the old ChatGPT Pro $200/month plan's usage limits in half. To get the original limits back, you now need the new $500/month tier. The post doesn't disclose exact token caps or when the change takes effect—just a side-by-side comparison image. Comments split between worries that top-tier models become a luxury, and pushback that local 9B–12B models already beat GPT-4o for most tasks.