This is a bait-and-switch, plain and simple.
I’m an existing $200/month Pro subscriber and I just got the email. Here’s what it actually says: starting October 30, the usage included in Pro 200 drops from 20x to 10x Plus, and GPT-6 Pro in Chat gets cut from 200 to 100 messages per week. Same price, half the product. And they dress it up as “our models are getting more efficient,” as if we wouldn’t notice.
Let’s be honest about where things already stood. Even at 20x, my limits were gone in about 3 days of real work. Now I’d be lucky to make it through 1. That’s not a “plan” for professional development work anymore, it’s a demo.
The “thank you” of one-time 62,500 credits expiring December 31 is insulting. A one-off credit that expires in two months does not compensate for permanently halving the thing I’m paying for every month. And the answer to “give us more capacity” being “pay $500 for it” tells you exactly what this is: a price hike disguised as a new tier.
Quietly gutting an existing plan while keeping the price flat is a really cheap move, especially toward the people who paid for the top tier and stuck with you.
I’m not going to complain and stay. I’m moving to Anthropic. Opus 5.5 is simply better, and it doesn’t come with a surprise nerf every time the company decides it needs more margin. When you treat your heaviest paying users like this, don’t be surprised when they leave.