OpenAI limits the number of paid ChatGPT accounts per device and card
OpenAI has introduced a limit on the number of paid ChatGPT accounts connected to a single device or payment card. Affected are the Go, Plus, and Pro 100/200/500 plans, not Business, Enterprise, and Edu.
OpenAI is introducing new restrictions for paid ChatGPT accounts: a limit on the number of accounts linked to a single device and a limit on the number of subscriptions tied to a single payment card. Once the limit is reached, an error message "Device limit reached" appears, and the given account can no longer be used on the affected device. According to OpenAI support, logging out of the account does not automatically free up space for another account.
The restriction applies to the ChatGPT Go, Plus, Pro 100, Pro 200, and Pro 500 plans. It does not apply to free accounts or to the Business, Enterprise, and Edu plans. As an alternative to another, cheaper subscription, OpenAI offers the purchase of additional credits or a usage reset, which according to the source is generally a more expensive option than another separate subscription.
According to The Decoder, the measure will likely affect most the users who switched between multiple paid accounts on a single device in order to extract more usage out of cheap fixed-price plans. The outlet interprets this as part of OpenAI's broader shift from growing the user base toward higher revenue, a category into which it also places the planned merger of Chat and Work.
Why it matters
The measure complicates the practice whereby individuals or small teams kept several cheap subscriptions on a single device instead of a more expensive tier with a higher limit. Companies using Business, Enterprise, or Edu plans are not affected.
Two audiences, two different impacts
What this means
For individuals
Users who ran multiple paid ChatGPT accounts on one computer or phone to get a higher volume of cheap usage will lose that option and will have to address the increase through more expensive credits, a usage reset, or switching to a higher tier.
For a business
Nothing changes for companies on the Business, Enterprise, or Edu plans; the impact concerns only individual paid tiers (Go, Plus, Pro), so corporate license purchases through these plans remain unrestricted.
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