I’m a Plus user, and it’s frustrating when GPT is sometimes very slow. No, it has nothing to do with me, neither with my connection nor anything else. That can be completely ruled out, as it sometimes works normally, but more and more often it’s very, very slow.
When you have to wait a minute for even the simplest questions with the simplest models before anything happens, and then somewhere along the line, the fact that the Open AI status page mostly shows that everything is fine, even though the speeds are very slow.
I’m also a little frustrated right now, because I have the feeling that whenever I want to do something with GPT, and it’s sometimes urgent, it just doesn’t work in that moment.
Used to be that a multi-page answer appeared within seconds. Now it takes 10 - 30 seconds to start and then I can read along as the text is being generated.
Instead of focusing on performance, more and more new things are being added, which slows it down even further. Yes, it’s great that image generation now works much better, but it’s completely unusable. Who has time to wait minutes for an image when Flux and the similars do it in seconds?
Yes, I know it’s overcrowded at the moment, but not even the chat works well anymore, it’s just slow. As a paying customer, one should be able to expect a little more here? But nobody cares… anyway, I just wanted to mention it
Something that was impossible a year ago is now very possible - but you have to wait a few minutes for it- temporarily. Is that really such a big deal?
I’ve now switched to Gemini, too. It’s much faster, and they also have a very good archiving system for chats (something after the community has been “begging” for years, to this day nothing has happened) , which I can file and sort as I want. And let’s be honest, 1 million tokens…
I agree. I am a plus user too, and its usually pretty quick, but the last 5 days or so, its been painfully slow and even asking to “retry” quite a bit. Then it spit out some weird jumbled responses. It corrected when I retried it. but this is not worth the monthly premium.
same here on april 30. chatgpt 4o wanted to send me a template project for Metashape to help me on a project (.psx file size like 24Ko) , finally it could not send it directly, so offered me to send it by wetransfer or on my server, but it’s not allowed.. then proposed me to send a codebase64 file to unrar, but finally couldnt send the full code at once.. so finally offered me to send the code splitted in 3 parts, to decode after. Everytime insanely slow to send each part and everytime the file was corrupted and I’ve tried every way.. In total i’ve lost like 2/3 hours .. On a way, good to know that human can be more helpfull and faster sometimes. So i did the project by myself instead, was quicker! ^^ but yes indeed, i don’t see the interest to be a Plus user for these concerns..tbc
I am indeed a Plus user in Brazil, and I am facing serious issues with slow response times—it’s absurdly slow to generate even simple and basic responses in the 4o model. It has become more flattering, always wanting to do more things, and the quality of the responses has decreased, including their length. Now, when I ask for a text modification, it only responds with a part of it, and I have to ask again for the complete version. The slowness is incredible; I don’t know what happened to the performance—it has regressed.
One approach is to type a question, wait for GPT to start considering it, shut down the page and restart GPT, then click on the conversation thread. This works pretty well.
7/1/25 Same, I am also a Plus user, and I’ve been experiencing the same thing. The past two weeks have been the worst; after every prompt, I have to reload my page to see the response.
I have been paying the $200 per month for the pro. I have to repeat the same question multiple times and the answers are getting worse, not better. I think I might need to move on. Has anyone liked Grok? I see people pumping up Gemini. Thanks. I am very frustrated by this because I have spent a ton of time training Chat, so I don’t want to leave, but the last week has made the system almost unusable. Regardless of how this tech didn’t exist until 3 years ago, if I am paying for it and spending time improving it, I want it to work.
Iam also a Plus User. Not Only has it become slower. It doesnt even follow Prompts, do its own things. Even after repeated clear instructions it will not do what it is being asked to. has become really frustrating
Yeah honestly, i use the project tabs a lot for helping with studying as a student, I’ve been finding lately the last month it doesn’t seem to listen to proper instructions that have been laid out and at times will give me jumbled information, I’ve noticed a drop in quality over the last 3 months. i have even gone as far as deleting everything and starting fresh and that didn’t help
This still hasn’t been addressed. GPT is incredibly slow now, and its been a recent development. I remember at the end of the spring semester (May 2025) it was fine, but right after that it became incredibly slow and is getting worse.