{"id":384685,"date":"2026-04-10T08:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T08:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/384685\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T08:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T08:18:12","slug":"codex-demand-sparks-new-openai-mid-tier-subscription","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/384685\/","title":{"rendered":"Codex Demand Sparks New OpenAI Mid-Tier Subscription"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OpenAI<\/a> has added a new $100 per month Pro <a href=\"https:\/\/chatgpt.com\/pricing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">subscription plan<\/a> that lands between the $20 per month Plus plan and the existing $200 per month Pro plan.<\/p>\n<p>The addition of this new tier is meant to support the growing use of OpenAI\u2019s coding agent <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/codex\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Codex<\/a>, the company said in a Thursday (April 9) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OpenAI\/status\/2042295688323875316\" rel=\"nofollow\">post<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis new tier offers 5x more Codex usage than Plus and is best for longer, high-effort Codex sessions,\u201d OpenAI said in the post. \u201cIn <a href=\"https:\/\/chatgpt.com\/overview?openaicom_referred=true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ChatGPT<\/a>, this new Pro tier still offers access to all Pro features, including the exclusive Pro model and unlimited access to Instant and Thinking models.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.samaltman.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Altman<\/a> said in a Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sama\/status\/2042342572958630332?s=43&amp;t=HX_ju0vgQxqA9hav5Ebegg\" rel=\"nofollow\">post<\/a> on X: \u201cIt is very nice to see Codex getting so much love. We are launching a $100 ChatGPT Pro tier by very popular demand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI still offers the $200 Pro plan, which offers 20x higher limits than Plus, according to the company\u2019s webpage dedicated to <a href=\"https:\/\/help.openai.com\/en\/articles\/9793128-about-chatgpt-pro-plans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ChatGPT Pro plans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur existing $200 Pro tier still remains our highest usage option,\u201d the company said in another Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/openai\/status\/2042296046009626989?s=43&amp;t=HX_ju0vgQxqA9hav5Ebegg\" rel=\"nofollow\">post<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Advertisement: Scroll to Continue<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI also rebalanced Codex usage in its Plus subscription plan to support more sessions throughout the week, rather than longer sessions in a single day, according to another Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OpenAI\/status\/2042295690382995789\" rel=\"nofollow\">post<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI introduced Codex in May 2025, saying this cloud-based <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/introducing-codex\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">software engineering agent<\/a> can write features, answer questions about the user\u2019s codebase, fix bugs and propose pull requests for review.<\/p>\n<p>Altman said in a Tuesday (April 7) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sama\/status\/2041658719839383945?s=43&amp;t=HX_ju0vgQxqA9hav5Ebegg\" rel=\"nofollow\">post<\/a> on X that OpenAI was celebrating \u201c3 million weekly codex users.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That figure is up from the 2 million weekly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/artificial-intelligence-2\/2026\/openai-valued-at-852-billion-in-latest-funding-round\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Codex users<\/a> OpenAI reported in a March 31 <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/accelerating-the-next-phase-ai\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">press release<\/a> announcing the company\u2019s latest funding round.<\/p>\n<p>In the release, OpenAI said that Codex is \u201ctransforming how developers turn ideas into working software\u201d and that the number of weekly users served by Codex had increased fivefold over the previous three months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI has added a new $100 per month Pro subscription plan that lands between the $20 per month&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,5818,85,46,43,1748,262,25466,125,264],"class_list":{"0":"post-384685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-codex","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-openai","16":"tag-pymnts-news","17":"tag-subscriptions","18":"tag-technology","19":"tag-whats-hot"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}