AI coding tool price hikes
6 price hikes we tracked on AI coding tools, newest first. Each one has its own page with before and after, sources, and what's cheaper now.
- Codex on ChatGPT Pro 200 now gives new subscribers less usage for $200 · Sep 29, 2026
OpenAI reopened the $200 Pro plan as Pro 200 with a lower included allowance, reported as about 10x Plus in Codex and ChatGPT Work instead of 20x, and added a $500 Pro tier for the top usage. - GitHub Copilot raised model multipliers for annual Pro and Pro+ subscribers · Jun 1, 2026
Annual Pro and Pro+ subscribers kept premium-request pricing until renewal, but GitHub increased model multipliers for them from June 1, 2026, so the same allowance buys fewer premium-model requests. - Claude made session limits run out faster during weekday peak hours · Mar 2026
Anthropic began draining 5-hour session limits faster for Free, Pro and Max users on weekdays 5am-11am PT; weekly limits were unchanged and about 7% of users were expected to be affected. - Claude added weekly usage caps to its $20 Pro and $100/$200 Max plans · Aug 28, 2025
On top of the rolling 5-hour session limits, Pro and Max subscribers got weekly caps (overall and for Opus); Anthropic estimated Pro at 40-80 hours of Sonnet 4 in Claude Code per week. - GitHub Copilot began capping premium model requests on paid plans · Jun 18, 2025
GitHub started enforcing monthly premium-request allowances on Pro, Pro+, Business and Enterprise (Pro: 300/month), with extra requests billed at $0.04 each. Base models GPT-4.1/GPT-4o stayed unlimited. - Cursor swapped Pro's 500 fast requests for a $20 usage credit pool · Jun 2025
Pro stayed at $20/mo, but its 500 fast requests per month were replaced by a pool of about $20 of model usage at API rates (plus unlimited Auto), so heavy users of premium models got far fewer requests.