Why is ChatGPT Pro temporarily limited on my account?
OpenAI Developer Community
April 30, 2026
> Yes: you hit a temporary Pro/Thinking throttle during legitimate manual use, and “unlimited” here means no fixed published message bundle but still subject to dynamic guardrails/capacity limits.
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> There isn’t a deterministic, user-visible way to predict it.
The answer I got from their AI support-)
While it is understandable that $200 can’t buy you an “unlimited” access to compute, this policy looks crazy-)
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