OpenAI adds $125 ChatGPT Business Premium seats, no 5-hour cap
A direct answer to agents blowing past usage limits: 5× the $25 Standard seat, weekly usage resets, and $100 in credits if you sign up by Aug 20.
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$125 a seat, 5× the usage, no five-hour wall
Premium runs $125/mo ($100 billed annually) against the $25 Standard seat, with 5× the usage and no five-hour rolling limit — the exact wall heavy agent sessions keep tripping. Usage now resets on a predictable weekly cadence instead.
Claim $100 in credits before Aug 20
The first 10,000 Business customers to add Premium seats by August 20 get $100 in workspace credits (2,500) per seat, up to five seats, plus a shot at early access before general availability — which OpenAI hasn't dated yet.
Why now: agents burn tokens faster than chat
OpenAI is explicit that this targets agentic usage — background runs and long tool-calling loops chew through far more tokens than conversation, which is what broke flat-rate seats. If your team lives in agent mode, Premium is the release valve, at 5× the cost.
Mix tiers, or pool shared credits
Standard and Premium seats coexist in one workspace, so admins can hand the heavy tier only to power users and top up everyone else with shared workspace credits. Only Premium removes the five-hour cap — the upgrade math is per-user, not per-workspace.
The flat-rate era is quietly ending
This is the clearest signal yet that all-you-can-eat per-seat AI is over, with usage-tiered seats joining the industry's broader drift to metered pricing. Expect more “how much do you actually use” math baked into every AI plan you're on.