OpenAI Puts the 5-Hour Limit Back on ChatGPT Plus Starting August 25, and Exempts the $100 and $200 Tiers
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Thibault Sottiaux announced that the five-hour usage cap returns across ChatGPT Work and Codex for Plus subscribers on 2026-08-25, after being suspended on 2026-07-12; the $100 and $200 plans keep running on weekly allowances only for the next few months. The r/OpenAI thread hit 551 upvotes and 201 comments, with the top reply reading the change as deliberate tier differentiation rather than capacity management. One commenter connects it to Plus users driving heavy Luna usage through third-party harnesses, which the five-hour window throttles directly.