OpenAI unveils a $500/month Pro plan, offering its highest usage allowance and access to its new Ultrafast tier, with up to 8x faster token generation in Codex
THE SO WHAT
The $500/month Pro tier with 8x faster Codex is OpenAI explicitly courting power users and teams who’d otherwise spin up their own infra. If your product depends on speed or high-volume generation as a differentiator, assume your users can now get near-infra-grade performance directly from the vendor — you’ll need more than throughput to justify your layer.
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