Paying for ChatGPT Plus Just to Be Locked Out While “5h Remaining” Still Shows Feels Misleading

This is an industry-wide pattern

• Almost every major provider is moving toward more usage-based, consumption-visible pricing.

• Flat-fee “unlimited” plans are shrinking or getting stricter because a small % of users (power users) were responsible for a huge % of the costs.

So the only way to do that is hosting your own which will drive up GPU pricing again