OpenAI details ChatGPT-o3, o4-mini, o4-mini-high usage limits
Published on: 2025-04-19 08:05:39
OpenAI has launched three new reasoning models - o3, o4-mini, and o4-mini-high for Plus and Pro subscribers, but as it turns out, these models also have usage limitations.
In a support document, OpenAI shed light on how you can use ChatGPT's three new reasoning models.
If you subscribe to ChatGPT Plus, you'll get up to 50 messages per week for the o3 model, which is the most powerful reasoning model.
ChatGPT Plus with model selection
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On the other hand, o4-mini offers 150 messages per day and o4-mini-high (best for coding) offers 50 messages per day.
These limitations are only for the most popular ChatGPT $20 Plus plan.
If you upgrade to ChatGPT Pro, which costs $200 per month, you'll get "near unlimited" access.
OpenAI calls the Pro plan "near unlimited" because you might still hit usage limits in certain cases—such as when your activity appears artificial or violates OpenAI’s terms and conditions, which include:
Abusive usage, such as automatically or
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