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ChatGPT Pro Max: Leak shows possible 500-dollar plan

Code traces and screenshots point to ChatGPT Pro Max for 500 dollars a month. OpenAI has not officially announced the plan yet – so price, launch and limits are not confirmed.

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Laptop as a symbolic image for ChatGPT, AI work and Codex
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A possible new ChatGPT plan is currently causing a stir: code references and leaked interfaces show a "ChatGPT Pro Max" for 500 US dollars per month. The important context: OpenAI has not officially announced this plan so far. The ChatGPT plans currently documented publicly do not include a Pro Max plan.

The hints are still more concrete than an ordinary social media rumour. Several observers have found internal labels for "Pro Max" or "Pro (Max)". The leaked comparison names "Fastest Work and Codex" as the most striking difference from the existing Pro offering.

500 dollars is so far a leak, not an official price

The price table currently circulating lists 500 US dollars per month for the USA. For Germany, the leak shows 510 euros including VAT. However, these regional prices come from leaked material and are not a confirmed OpenAI price list.

OpenAI's own help pages currently document Pro variants for 100 and 200 US dollars per month. According to OpenAI, new sign-ups and upgrades to the 200-dollar variant have been temporarily paused since 10 September.

So the current report should not be read as "OpenAI launches a 500-dollar plan today". The reliable status is: there are clear product traces of an additional high-end tier, but no public confirmation yet of price, launch date and final scope.

What "Fastest Work and Codex" could mean

The positioning is particularly interesting. The leaked comparison apparently does not simply promise "more ChatGPT", but highlights speed for Work and Codex.

This would fit a stronger segmentation of professional AI use: for companies, developers and agencies, not only model quality but also the time until a finished result can be economically relevant in long agentic workflows.

Codex in particular is thereby increasingly becoming a standalone cost factor in professional workflows. For marketing teams, for example, this is relevant when AI not only writes texts but also helps develop websites, tracking setups, internal tools or automated content processes.

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More usage is not yet confirmed

An important distinction gets lost in many posts about the leak: from the information visible so far, it cannot be reliably concluded that Pro Max automatically receives significantly higher usage limits.

Reports about more storage, larger quotas or specific infrastructure should therefore be treated separately from the product traces actually visible. Speculation that the plan could be accelerated by Cerebras hardware is also not yet confirmed by OpenAI.

For potential buyers, this is decisive. 500 dollars a month would only be meaningfully comparable if it is clear whether the surcharge buys additional usage, lower latency, prioritised computing power or a combination of these.

OpenAI is building ChatGPT more strongly for professional workflows

Regardless of whether the leaked plan appears exactly in this form, the direction fits OpenAI's current product development. ChatGPT is increasingly being positioned as a working environment for longer research, coding and agent tasks.

ChatGPT is also changing for marketing as a result. With Sponsored Agents, HubSpot and Shopify, OpenAI is simultaneously expanding the commercial side of the platform. And as AI assistants are used more widely, the question of how brands become visible in ChatGPT recommendations is also changing.

A particularly expensive Pro Max plan would therefore be less a classic consumer subscription and more another tier for users for whom saved working time has a direct economic value.

What we currently actually know

The current status can be clearly separated:

  • Confirmed: Product and code traces show a Pro Max / Pro (Max) label.
  • Leaked: 500 US dollars per month, plus regional price figures such as 510 euros for Germany.
  • Leaked: "Fastest Work and Codex" as the key difference in the plan description.
  • Not confirmed: final launch date, final limits and the complete feature scope.
  • Not confirmed: speculation about the specific underlying hardware or Cerebras infrastructure.

Until OpenAI itself announces the plan or updates its official price overview, ChatGPT Pro Max remains a very concrete leak – but not yet an officially launched product.

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