OpenAI Testing Unannounced $500 ChatGPT Pro Max Tier

The mockups point to faster code-generation plus larger memory for power users as OpenAI manages strained GPT-6 Astra capacity.

Overview

Screenshots and interface code seen by multiple trackers on Thursday and Friday show an unannounced 'Pro Max' tier listed at about $500 per month, with some regional mockups showing roughly $600 after local taxes.
The Pro Max listings describe faster performance for OpenAI's 'Work' and 'Codex' tools, maximum memory, 100GB file storage, and early access to frontier models, but OpenAI has not confirmed the plan or its exact limits.
OpenAI paused new sign-ups and upgrades to its existing $200 Pro tier on September 10 because unprecedented demand for GPT-6 Astra strained capacity, and that pause frames why the company is testing new pricing options.
Reporters and analysts note technical speculation that specialized Cerebras inference hardware could enable the faster speeds shown in the mockups, though neither OpenAI nor Cerebras has verified that connection.
If launched, Pro Max would price far above current rivals and existing OpenAI tiers, and it would target professional developers and researchers who run long, resource-heavy coding or agentic workloads and value raw inference speed.