No weekly usage consumed on Pro
Thibault Sottiaux, who leads Codex and other products at OpenAI, posted on X on Oct. 21 (Oct. 22 Japan time) that the always-on AI agent "dots" is fully included in the Pro plan and does not consume weekly usage limits. He also posted "Dot, Dotter, Dottest," hinting at bigger versions.
dots is an agent that runs 24 hours a day, announced at the company's "DevDay" developer event on Sept. 29. Each user gets one, and it works on multiple tasks at the same time. It is available on the Pro plan, which starts at $100 a month, and on business plans such as Business Premium, but not on the free tier or the $20-a-month Plus plan.
Tasks it starts use usage limits
Sottiaux had also said on Oct. 1 that direct interaction with dots does not use usage limits and that the basic part would always be included in the plan going forward. On the other hand, tasks that dots starts in Codex or "ChatGPT Work" count toward usage limits. He has also announced paid add-ons that increase speed and processing volume.
On the day it released dots, OpenAI halved the task usage limits on the $200-a-month version of Pro and introduced a $500-a-month version. As a result, how much dots can actually be used depends on how much of the usage limits the tasks it starts consume.
Claude Duet shares usage limits
Sottiaux's posts came just after Anthropic released a research version of its always-on agent "Claude Duet" the same day, Oct. 21. Duet is available on Pro, which starts at $20 a month, and higher plans, and its background work such as morning summaries consumes the same 5-hour and weekly usage limits as regular chat. The posts reasserted that dots does not use limits for conversation.
| Item | OpenAI dots | Anthropic Claude Duet |
|---|---|---|
| Available plans | Pro (from $100 a month) and others | Pro (from $20 a month), Max |
| Usage limits for conversation | Not consumed | Shared with regular chat |
| Tasks it starts | Count toward usage limits | Count toward usage limits |
