So here is the limit with GPT-5 Pro. I was troubleshooting code, you can look at my account and see my previous thread Comparing GPT-5 Pro and earlier LLMs for developers - Coding with ChatGPT - OpenAI Developer Community
I called it garbage performance but someone renamed my thread, so be it.
While troubleshooting my code, I suddenly noticed my model was swapped to THINKING from Pro, so I went to change it, but the Pro area is greyed out and asking me to contact support.
- I am not using VPN
- I Am sole user of my account
- I am working on my own project not anyone else’s
- I have been pro user for months now and have previously had regular GPT-4 produce 2000 lines of code for me a year ago, whereas now I think the model was programmed to flag that as abusive, despite my current code is far less than that.
- I have not done any “programmatic or automatic extractions” I only asked for the code to be fixed.
- Garbage code that GPT-5 Pro provides leads to additional unnecessary prompts, and I assume that is now being flagged as abusive. Each new thread can output a maximum of 1-3 large code dumps after that it completely plateaus and becomes gemini-level of intelligence. Now, you also get “limited.”
They have quietly released this here GPT-5 in ChatGPT | OpenAI Help Center and it reads the following:
The ChatGPT Team and Pro plans offers unlimited access to our GPT-5 models, subject to abuse guardrails. Usage must adhere to our Terms of Use, which prohibits, among other things:
Abusive usage, such as automatically or programmatically extracting data.
Sharing your account credentials or making your account available to anyone else.
Reselling access or using ChatGPT to power third-party services.
We have guardrails in place to help prevent misuse and are always working to improve our systems. This may occasionally involve a temporary restriction on your usage. We will inform you when this happens, and if you think this might be a mistake, please don’t hesitate to reach out to our support team. If policy-violating behavior is not found, your access will be restored.
ChatGPT is a great tool, but I have feared this would have happened sooner or later even for Pro accounts, I have spent over a $1000 now to have access to chatgpt over the years maybe more, and it has been a good ride, but I cannot wait until competition catches up. If I do not regain access to Pro there will be no point to renew my $200 subscription, the only reason I pay this much is to have access to Pro.
We absolutely cannot allow this to be normalized, in all my years of using GPT I was never “limited” unless I hit a use cap, for which I got PRO, and my use case did not change in absolutely any way, it’s either coding or conversations, conversations are garbage now, and so is coding, but now on top of these things, you get limited.
That limitation feels arbitrary, opaque, and user-hostile.