OpenAI appears to be building a $100-per-month ChatGPT subscription called Pro Lite. Developer Tibor Blaho posted on X that checkout page strings in the ChatGPT web app reference the new tier by name and price, though the description still looks incomplete.
The plan would fill an obvious hole. Right now there's a tenfold jump from Plus at $20 to Pro at $200, and users have been vocal about it. An OpenAI community forum thread from earlier this month called for exactly this price point, and it drew broad support. Code references suggest Pro Lite would offer three to five times the deep reasoning quota of Plus, driven by a parameter called reasoning_limit_boost. The checkout page strings also mention unlimited access to top models, unlimited advanced voice, uncapped image and video generation, and priority-speed Codex agents, per Beebom's reporting. All company-reported details, obviously, and the feature list could change before launch.
The pricing matches Anthropic's Claude Max 5x tier exactly, which is probably not a coincidence. Google's lineup has a similar gap between its $20 AI Pro and $250 AI Ultra plans. No launch date, no official confirmation from OpenAI. But Blaho has a track record of surfacing features weeks before they ship.
Bottom Line
OpenAI's code points to a $100 Pro Lite plan with 3-5x the reasoning quota of Plus, directly matching Anthropic's Claude Max pricing.
Quick Facts
- Price: $100/month (found in checkout page code)
- Reasoning quota: 3-5x that of the $20 Plus plan (company code, unverified)
- Code identifier: chatgptprolite with reasoning_limit_boost parameter
- Current gap: Plus ($20) to Pro ($200) is a 10x price jump
- Competitor match: Anthropic Claude Max 5x costs $100/month
