OpenAI is quietly testing a feature that lets some ChatGPT Plus subscribers pay $8 to instantly restore their exhausted weekly usage quotas. The pay-to-reset option surfaced this week when a Reddit user on the $20 monthly plan reported seeing a black prompt at login after burning through their weekly allowance. The button offered a full reset for $8, with no obligation to accept. Users who decline can simply wait roughly five hours for the standard automatic renewal cycle to kick in. A full reset, as defined in OpenAI's Codex documentation, renews the applicable weekly quota and cancels the waiting period. Redeeming one snaps usage back to 100% and pushes the next weekly renewal to about seven days from the moment it is claimed. The feature was never formally announced. An OpenAI spokesperson confirmed the company is exploring ways for users who hit their caps to buy additional usage. ChatGPT's Pro tiers run $100 and $200 per month, which translates to roughly $25 to $50 for a single week of access. Because Codex, ChatGPT Work, and related agent tools all draw from one shared usage pool, a single reset reopens multiple products at once. Buying credits was already possible inside Codex settings; buying back time was not. A leak on Aug. 7 had pegged Plus resets at between $5 and $8, though those figures carried no independent confirmation at the time. The button now sits at the top of that range. OpenAI introduced banked resets on June