OpenAI Caps Paid ChatGPT Accounts Per Device and Payment Card

OpenAI now blocks new paid ChatGPT subscriptions from stacking on the same device or payment card. Hit the ceiling and the account "can no longer be used on that device," according to The Decoder, citing OpenAI's support page. The on-screen message is a flat "Device limit reached."

The caps apply to ChatGPT Go, Plus, Pro 100, Pro 200 and Pro 500. Free, Business, Enterprise and Edu accounts are exempt. Logging out does not release the slot.

OpenAI frames it as a security measure. The Decoder is blunter: "The policy will likely hit users who've been switching between multiple paid accounts on one device to squeeze more usage out of cheap flat-rate subscriptions."

Blocked users are not offered a second subscription. They get a different upsell. "OpenAI instead points to buying extra credits or usage resets, options that are generally more expensive than an additional subscription," the article reports.

The piece sets the move inside a broader turn: "OpenAI also appears to be slowly prioritizing revenue over growth, as its move to merge Chat and Work suggests." It lands amid a thick run of OpenAI policy news on our tracker, which has logged 394 OpenAI stories in the last 90 days, including a share-link flaw patch earlier the same week.