OpenAI's upcoming chat-and-work merger in ChatGPT signals the end of all-you-can-prompt pricing

Starting in December, ChatGPT's Plus, Pro, and Business plans will share a single token budget across ChatGPT and Codex as OpenAI folds Work's agentic features into the main interface, per an updated OpenAI support page. Users can check remaining balance and reset times in Settings, and once the limit is hit they can wait for a reset, upgrade, or buy extra credits, while chats with Instant models won't count toward the budget. OpenAI recently doubled usage limits for higher-priced plans, and Anthropic has already combined Chat and "Cowork" in Claude.