OpenAI has a new $100 ChatGPT Pro plan to better match up with Claude

OpenAI has closed a yawning gap in its ChatGPT subscription pricing with a new https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9793128-about-chatgpt-pro-plans">$100 per month Pro plan that slots between the $20 per month Plus plan and $200 per month Pro plan.

Offering five times more Codex than the $20 option, it appears designed to challenge Anthropic's $100 per month Claude option. "Compared with Claude Code, Codex delivers more coding capacity per dollar across paid tiers," an OpenAI spokesperson told https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/09/chatgpt-pro-plan-100-month-codex/">TechCrunch. 

So what's the difference between OpenAI's two Pro plans?

The $200 version does offer four times the Codex.

However, you get the same advanced tools and models with $100 plan, according to OpenAI's product page.

To encourage users to jump in, it will offer double the Codex for a limited time, or 10 times what you get with the Plus plan. 

Users have been screaming for such a plan for a while now, according to https://community.openai.com/t/give-us-a-100-dollar-plan-please/1373763/5">posts on OpenAI's developer community forums. "The Plus plan will continue to be the best offer at $20 for steady, day-to-day usage of Codex, and the new $100 Pro tier offers a more accessible upgrade path for heavier daily use," OpenAI said in a https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2042295690382995789">post on X. 

With the launch of GPT 5.2 late last year and https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-3-codex/">GPT-5.3-Codex in February, OpenAI significantly boosted the speed and reasoning capabilities of Codex, giving developers a tough choice between ChatGPT and Claude Opus.

However, the sticking point for many power users was ChatGPT's $200 per month price — so OpenAI no doubt hopes the new plan will convince those on the fence to switch.