Vibe coders who hit their ChatGPT usage limits too quickly on OpenAI’s $20-a-month Plus plan no longer have to choose between waiting for a reset or splurging on a $200-a-month upgrade. The company on Thursday said it would introduce a new Pro plan, at $100 a month, that comes with higher limits in the increasingly popular Codex coding app.
AI coding tools have exploded in popularity in the past several months, with Anthropic’s Claude Code generating viral headlines at the end of 2025 and OpenAI’s Codex seeing a boom in usage so far this year. OpenAI said Codex usage has risen more than 70% month-over-month.
The problem is that having AI plan and write code for an app or tool uses a lot more tokens — the basic unit of AI generation — than just asking it to chat.
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