OpenAI and Anthropic introduce tiered AI subscription models for enterprises

Major AI providers are shifting toward flexible enterprise subscription models that allow companies to assign different usage tiers to individual employees. OpenAI has introduced ‘Premium seats’ for ChatGPT Business, following similar moves by Anthropic and Cursor. This allows organizations to provide high-capacity tiers to power users while maintaining standard tiers for others, making large-scale corporate AI deployment more predictable and cost-effective.

In a related development, OpenAI announced a reset of usage limits for Codex and ChatGPT Work paid users. This follows the resolution of several technical bugs that were causing inefficient token consumption. Improvements in context management, background processing, and the prevention of unnecessary high-performance model calls have resulted in a 10% to 50% increase in effective usage capacity for some users.