Summary
OpenAI has launched a new $500-a-month ChatGPT Pro plan, roughly $6,000 a year, and Nick Saraev gives an overview and tests it on a range of build tasks. The headline feature is Astra Ultrafast, which runs GPT Astra at about 8 to 10 times normal speed, topping out near 300 tokens per second. The plan also includes access to Dots, OpenAI’s always-on agent, plus Codex, maximum memory, 100 GB of storage, early access to new tools and models, and no ads.
The video shows where the plan sits in OpenAI’s pricing pages, which currently list it on the business side, and how the new Ultrafast option appears in the Codex app’s speed picker. Saraev then times several full app builds with the model set to high reasoning. Projects include an interactive black hole observatory in WebGL, an architectural app that turns a floor plan into a furnished 3D home, a miniature city with a working traffic simulation, an optimized scroll-driven ocean website with assets generated through Higsfield, and a marble machine game.
Build times are shown for each, including testing, so viewers can judge whether the speed is worth the premium for latency-sensitive coding work.
📺 Source: Nick Saraev · Published September 30, 2026
🏷️ Format: Benchmark Test
