I think this is a move to get business users paying consumption (per token) pricing for codex instead of a flat rate.

How would that work, when it's the flat rate subscription they've reduced the price of?

Tighter limits under the auspices of "lower price!"

Yeah, the lede is buried a bit, these new rate-cards seem to be aligning towards token-based pricing with the prior rates now labeled 'legacy'

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001106-codex-rate-card https://help.openai.com/en/articles/11481834-chatgpt-rate-ca...

The prior rates in question there are message based pricing, not the flat rate subscription.

They need to allow us to add the $200 per month seat for certain business users.