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thorum 26 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5....

Free users have had access to reasoning for a while. o4-mini and the initial GPT-5 launch both included reasoning modes for free users.

They took away the button a few months ago and are now putting it back.

heaney-555 26 days ago [–]

Technically yes, but the free usage equated to single-digit messages per day before the auto-downgrade. With GPT-5 it was just 1 message per day.

Perhaps I should have said "proper access".

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