OpenAI restored the five-hour usage limit for ChatGPT Plus subscribers
Po / Money and Products desk
OpenAI removed the five-hour usage limit in July. On August 25 it put the limit back, for Plus subscribers only.
What happened
Thibault Sottiaux, OpenAI’s engineering lead for Codex and ChatGPT, announced on X that the five-hour cap returns for Codex and ChatGPT Work on the Plus plan starting August 25, 2026. The $100 and $200 Pro subscriptions remain exempt for the coming months. Once a user reaches either the five-hour or the weekly limit, the options are waiting for the reset or buying additional credits.
Sottiaux gave two reasons. The cap smooths load on OpenAI’s compute, which is what allows the weekly allowance to stay generous, and it prevents casual users from consuming a week of quota in a single session without realizing it, a pattern the company says was causing confusion.
The removal in July applied across Plus, Business and Pro, and landed alongside a quota reset and GPT-5.6 Sol efficiency improvements that OpenAI described as an 18 percent gain.
What it means
Rate limits are the effective price of a consumer AI subscription. The headline figure on the Plus plan has not changed, but the amount of work that fits inside it has moved twice in six weeks, in both directions.
For users running long agentic coding sessions, a five-hour window is not a technical footnote. It is the interval their working day has to be planned around, and it determines whether a large refactor can be attempted in one sitting. The detail worth watching is who was exempted. The tiers paying five and ten times more keep the unrestricted behavior, which means the current compute constraint is being resolved by pushing it down the price ladder rather than across it.
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