{"slug": "openai-will-bring-back-5h-limit-for-plus-accounts-across-chatgpt-work-and-codex", "title": "OpenAI will bring back 5h limit for Plus accounts across ChatGPT Work and Codex", "summary": "OpenAI will reinstate a 5-hour weekly usage limit for ChatGPT Plus accounts across ChatGPT Work and Codex starting tomorrow, according to Tibo, an OpenAI employee. The limit, previously postponed, is intended to smooth compute load and improve the experience for casual users, while Pro subscriptions at $100 and $200 per month will remain unaffected for the upcoming months.", "body_md": "Tomorrow we will bring back the 5h limit for Plus accounts across ChatGPT Work and Codex. I had mentioned this a while ago, but then postponed it.\nThis is necessary as (a) the 5h limit allows us to smoothen the load on our compute, allowing to keep the plan generous in terms of weekly usage and (b) users on the Plus plan are relatively casual and new users, but then also just accidentally eat through their whole weeks usage and then are confused, making it not a great experience.\nWe are for the upcoming months keeping the 5h limit not enabled for Pro $100 and Pro $200 subscriptions.\n\n# Tibo on X: \"Tomorrow we will bring back the 5h limit for Plus accounts across ChatGPT Work and Codex. I had mentioned this a while ago, but then postponed it. This is necessary as (a) the 5h limit allows us to smoothen the load on our compute, allowing to keep the plan generous in terms of\"\n\n- So explain how casual new users with a plus account are a strain to your compute more so than pro users.\n- My condolence to those on $20, couldn't get much done in that plan anyways.\n- I wish we could enable/disable this ourselves.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-will-bring-back-5h-limit-for-plus-accounts-across-chatgpt-work-and-codex", "canonical_source": "https://twitter.com/thsottiaux/status/2092058556707344708", "published_at": "2026-08-25 01:37:35+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-25 01:42:43.899162+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "ai-infrastructure", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "ChatGPT", "Codex", "Tibo"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-will-bring-back-5h-limit-for-plus-accounts-across-chatgpt-work-and-codex", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-will-bring-back-5h-limit-for-plus-accounts-across-chatgpt-work-and-codex.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-will-bring-back-5h-limit-for-plus-accounts-across-chatgpt-work-and-codex.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-will-bring-back-5h-limit-for-plus-accounts-across-chatgpt-work-and-codex.jsonld"}}