OpenAI is preparing a $500 ChatGPT Pro Max plan with faster Codex

OpenAI appears to be preparing a new ChatGPT Pro Max subscription that could cost $500 per month, but it's unclear when it'll begin rolling out.

OpenAI users, particularly power users, have been requesting more usage than the existing $200 plan offers for a while, so the $500 plan isn't just coming out of nowhere.

One version of the page lists Pro Max at $500 per month, while another shows $600 after local taxes or VAT are included.

So far, the most interesting difference in OpenAI's description is "Fastest Work and Codex."

I also noticed that ChatGPT's new plan teases access to the company's most capable frontier models, maximum memory, 100GB of file storage, and early access to new features.

It is worth noting that the $200 plan also promises early access, so we are not sure if that capability is going away and becoming exclusive to the $500 plan.

OpenAI has not announced Pro Max, so we don't know its exact usage limits yet. It could also offer substantially higher allowances than the existing Pro plans.

ChatGPT Pro Max could use Cerebras for faster AI

There's another interesting possibility behind the "Fastest Work and Codex" wording, and the guess is that it could use Cerebras.

For those unaware, OpenAI has been deploying more Cerebras hardware for ultra-fast AI inference, but we haven't seen anything recently from the company on that front.