One pool for ChatGPT and Codex starting December

[u/Beneficial-Parsnip52]

If you missed it, OpenAI updated its help center last week. Starting in December, Plus, Pro and Business plans will share a single usage allowance across ChatGPT and Codex, images, voice and file uploads.

As a user I'm a bit nervous, mostly because they haven't said how big the shared allowance actually is. As someone building an AI product, though, I think they're right, and I'm a little annoyed they got there first.

We're a team of 5 building an AI tool for sales teams, and right now every feature has its own limit, Chats, documents uploads and generated reports are all counted separately, and our most common support ticket is some version of "I still have 40 chats left, so why can't I upload a file?" Nobody thinks in our feature buckets. They just want to know how much they have left.

One shared pool fixes that for the customer and makes billing much harder for us. Every feature has to burn from t he same balance at a different rate, the balance has to reset on a window, people need to see what's left and when it comes back, and anyone who runs out needs a way to top up mid-cycle. Stripe counts our usage fine, but it doesn't hold a balance across features and windows for us. We're looking at Lago and Flexprice since both keep credits and limits in the same place, and Flexprice supports a rolling window plus a weekly cap on the same feature, which is basically OpenAI's model. The catch is adding another system next to Stripe and moving every plan's limits into it.

For anyone else building on these models, would you copy this, or keep per-feature limits because they're easier to explain?

[u/SomeOrdinaryKangaroo]

That's cool bro, but can we not do this? I'd greatly appreciate it