ChatGPT Free Users Get Unlimited Text Chats
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- OpenAI will lift rate limits on text chats for free and Go tier users starting next week, though messages containing file uploads and images will still be capped.
- Free and Go users will receive a new "Think" button next week that lets them access higher reasoning for harder questions.
- Free and Go users are being upgraded this week to GPT-5.6 Luna as their default ChatGPT model.
- Plus and Pro subscribers are getting an updated GPT-5.6 Sol model rolling out Thursday that OpenAI says is designed to make fewer mistakes on dates, numbers, sources, rules, and assumptions.
- The revised GPT-5.6 Sol will deliver more direct responses with tighter formatting and skip extra detail when it doesn't help.
- Plus and Pro users will also get a new slider starting Thursday to control how much reasoning ChatGPT applies to an answer.
Why it matters: Free users gain unlimited text conversations — the biggest friction point — while Plus and Pro get targeted hallucination fixes on dates, numbers, and sources via GPT-5.6 Sol. The new slider gives paying users direct control over reasoning depth, a feature previously unavailable on those tiers.
