All coding subscriptions
ChatGPT Pro ($500)
OpenAIultra$500
Last checked: 2026-10-05
- First limit you hit
- Vendor publishes no figure
- Equivalent API value
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- Value multiple
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- When it runs out
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- Scenario
- Interactive use only
Allowances
Vendor publishes no figure
weekly limit, figure not published
›The vendor's own wording
"Local messages and cloud chats share your plan's usage allowance. Weekly limits may also apply." The page gives no weekly figure for any plan, and says of its estimates: "These estimates are not fixed message limits; check your usage dashboard for current limits and reset times."Open the source page
Stated as unlimited
›The vendor's own wording
"The estimates below show local messages per five-hour period for Plus and Standard Business. Pro plans currently have no five-hour limit."Open the source page
Models included
| Model | Capability | Burn rate | |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-6 Astra | untiered | — | Astra Ultrafast access on Pro $500 |
| GPT-6.1 Sol | untiered | — | |
| GPT-6 Sol | untiered | — | |
| GPT-6 Luna | untiered | — |
Subscription versus your own API key
This compares two ways of working the same way — in an IDE or CLI, where BYOK tools make a direct API key a real option. It is not a claim that subscriptions are cheaper than the API in general.
| Model | Effective price / 1M tokens | vs API rate | Breakeven |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-6 Astrauntiered | — | — | 56.5M |
| GPT-6.1 Soluntiered | — | — | 175.0M |
| GPT-6 Soluntiered | — | — | 282.7M |
| GPT-6 Lunauntiered | — | — | 5653.3M |
Usage terms
Quoted from the vendor's own terms. We do not give legal advice.
The Terms of Use, under "What you cannot do", state: "You may not use our Services for any illegal, harmful, or abusive activity. For example, you may not: ... Automatically or programmatically extract data or Output (defined below)." The same list also prohibits users from "circumvent any rate limits or restrictions or bypass any protective measures or safety mitigations we put on our Services". Note that the clause carries no carve-out for API access — the exemption is not in the wording, so the separation rests on billing rather than on the prohibition itself: OpenAI's pricing page attaches the Codex allowances above to the ChatGPT plan and lists API access as its own line, "usage-based pricing per API documentation".
Change history
- 2026-10-05Recorded from the seed file