As a Plus subscriber, I’ve noticed that there are limits in place for how many actions or requests can be made within a given time. I understand that there are technical reasons for setting limits, but I believe it’s important that these are communicated clearly.
Currently, there’s no visible indicator outlining exactly what the cap is or how many messages I have left. This lack of transparency makes it difficult to plan my usage or know when I’m approaching the limit. As a paying user, I’d like to see OpenAI provide a way to either access or see these limits live. This will eliminate confusion and frustration.
I’m not asking for unlimited usage—I know OpenAI has reserved that privilege for the insanely expensive Pro Plan. I just want a visible indicator or at least a warning so I know what to expect. This would go a long way in improving the experience for all Plus users.
The same goes for the usage of 4.5. If we can see, live, how many replies/messages/tokens we have left, it would help users better limit or manage their usage of 4.5.
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As I understand it, the limit is not hard coded and fluctuates with the current activity.
So the GPT could say that you have 20 messages left, and then suddenly activity impacts ChatGPT badly and they have to restrict all users more. And then the 20 messages become 2 messages.
Also, I don’t see how they could dynamically implement such a limit… As time goes on, you would get rid of the limits. If you don’t use ChatGPT for 2 hours, when you come back you should get “full” “credits”. It’s hard to show you in real time how the limits, ratios, or quotas evolve for you… at least that’s my vision of the problem.
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I understand that OpenAI has chosen to make usage limits fluctuate depending on peak hours or system load, but I believe that’s exactly part of the problem, and it’s a business choice that shouldn’t be passed onto paying users.
If I subscribe to a service and pay for access, I should know exactly what I am paying for. If the limit fluctuates due to infrastructure capacity, then it’s not a Plus plan: it’s a “when-we-feel-like-it” plan. The responsibility to scale infrastructure to match demand should be on the provider, not on the end user. No other digital subscription service operates this way. Imagine a streaming service telling you: “Sorry, you can’t watch right now because too many people are online.” That would be considered unacceptable.
I’m not asking for unlimited access. I’m asking for transparency and consistency. If capacity constraints exist, then OpenAI should be upfront about it and clearly communicate to Plus users what they can expect, rather than quietly throttling access and leaving users guessing. Paid subscribers should not be treated as second-tier users simply because infrastructure hasn’t scaled fast enough.
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I was a Plus user and hit the ‘limits’ issue too. I now have a Team account and pay the subscription for 2 users - but only use the account myself. Since having the capacity for 2 users, I haven’t hit limits.
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Although it does not exactly ‘solve’ the problem, that might be something to consider then. I did not know about the Team account. How much more expensive is it?
That still means that there’s an arbitrary throttling that Plus users are not informed of accurately, other than ‘oh, there is a limit, and normally it’s X, but when it’s busy, it gets throttled to Y’.
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