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7recommend
6warn against
Nov 26, 2025first mention
Oct 13, 2026latest mention
Nov 25 – Oct 26
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Why people recommend it

“Easily pays for itself in that regard.”

“it will research Pubmed etc and give you a careful measured answer”

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“My nontechnical partner likes to talk to ChatGPT 5.5 Pro for image related tasks”

“examples like the following will become common place”

Caveats and dissent

“ChatGPT 6 Pro and Opus 5.5 have struggled to make any sense”

“you can't just remove half the usage for PRO200”

ChatGPT Pro 200 subscriber since day oneon “ChatGPT Pro 500”
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“this subscription will lose half of its value and then I'll have to pay 2.5x as much to get 1.25x the value”

$200/mo subscriberon “ChatGPT Pro 500”

“for the price of two months of ChatGPT Pro and never bother”

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Who recommends it in their own words

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“ChatGPT 6 Pro and Opus 5.5 have struggled to make any sense”

“you can't just remove half the usage for PRO200”

ChatGPT Pro 200 subscriber since day oneon “ChatGPT Pro 500”

“Easily pays for itself in that regard.”

“this subscription will lose half of its value and then I'll have to pay 2.5x as much to get 1.25x the value”

$200/mo subscriberon “ChatGPT Pro 500”

“it will research Pubmed etc and give you a careful measured answer”

“I ask a question from ChatGPT pro, once it is done”

“have been using chatgpt pro from codex cli for months now”

“My nontechnical partner likes to talk to ChatGPT 5.5 Pro for image related tasks”

“examples like the following will become common place”

Tangent: this is one of those situations where slang is harmful to understanding. When I saw "will absolutely destroy" my first interpretation was a positive connotation. Of course further context made it clear you were being straightforward, and this isn't aimed at you. Along these lines, "drop" has become a problematic term: "Acme co dropped support for Foo" means it's EOL, but "Foo dropped today" implies it just l

“use ChatGPT 5.5 pro to plan a feature and generate an implementation plan”

“for the price of two months of ChatGPT Pro and never bother”

“A pretty reasonable answer by ChatGPT, althought it did take 2min4s to answer”

“ChatGPT 5.2 Pro only allows 60k tokens, so I have no choice sometimes.”

“compared it directly with Claude Max x20”

“I just learned ChatGPT 5.2 Pro is $168/1mtok. Insanity.”

“ChatGPT seems to have gone down the 'nerfing' road where it now flat out refuses to do what I ask it to do quite often.”

“ChatGPT Pro mode is helpful, but it's too slow”

Threads where it came up

Also written as ChatGPT 5.5 Pro, ChatGPT 5.2 Pro, ChatGPT 6 Pro. Data: chatgpt-pro.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.

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