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Comment by Stitch4223 | Hacker News Reader

With the $200/month plan I’ve never ran into any limits or issues. The product can be used every day for extensive sessions and development. What is everyone doing that makes them talk about tokens versus dollars?

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If you've never hit the limits, why not do the $100/mo plan?

From what my own experiences are, and what's on their checkout page, $100 is 5x base usage and $200 is 20x. If $100 was 10x, then I personally would drop down. They want people to go to the highest tier.

You can hit limits with $100 if you use it all day.

You can do it easily if you use in fast mode.

I bet you could hit the limits of the $200/month using fast mode if you were using multiple sessions at the same time all day on fast mode.

The OpenAI tiers seem pretty well tuned.

I used to use the plus ($20/month), and that was good for a few sessions every once in a while.

But now that I'm using it to configure my network, monitoring, maintenance, I'm using it every day and I'm on the $100 plan. And I do pretty consistently hit the limits, but it's easy to pace myself.

I'mam thinking about upgrading to $200/month though. It would be nice not to have to ration it.

But let's put it in perspective: what you're paying them is more than the average salary in many poorer countries.

Fair. From a business perspective said amount is very reasonable in Europe / USA. For personal use it’s already different. Sometimes the answer is simple, thanks.

I ran out of usage using GPT-5.5 and had to buy a second subscription. I now switched to GPT-5.4 which is basically 2x usage.

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