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Codex pricing, features, company info, and alternatives
A factual product page for OpenAI's delegated coding agent.
Last updated April 2026 · Pricing and features verified against official documentation
Pricing
Current public pricing tiers on file for Codex, last verified Apr 19, 2026.
Free
$0
For a limited time, Codex is included with ChatGPT Free.
Go
$8 / month
For a limited time, Codex is included with ChatGPT Go.
Plus
$20 / month
Includes Codex; as of April 2, 2026, active Codex usage on Plus follows a token-based rate card.
Pro 5x
$100 / month
Built for real projects with 5x higher standard usage than Plus; OpenAI is currently offering 10x Codex usage versus Plus for a limited time. Active Codex usage follows the current rate card.
Pro 20x
$200 / month
Highest-usage individual plan with 20x higher standard usage than Plus. Active Codex usage follows the current rate card.
Business
$25 / user/month
Billed annually; monthly billing is $30/user/month. Codex is included, with usage priced on the current rate card.
Enterprise/Edu
Contact sales
Codex is included; Enterprise workspaces are being migrated to the current rate card on OpenAI's rollout schedule.
What You Can Do With It
The main capabilities that shape how people use Codex today.
Delegate code changes, bug fixes, and refactors to cloud agents.
Run Codex across the app, CLI, and IDE with the same ChatGPT account.
Open pull requests and review diffs from isolated cloud sandboxes.
Use it from ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise/Edu plans.
Best For
Who Codex is most clearly built for.
Developers who want to delegate substantial coding tasks to cloud agents.
Teams that need multi-agent workflows and parallel task execution.
Engineers who want a coding agent across app, terminal, and IDE surfaces.
Company
Leadership and company context for OpenAI.
CEO
Sam Altman
Founders
Sam Altman, Greg Brockman
Investors
Amazon, NVIDIA, SoftBank, Microsoft, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Thrive Capital
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA, USA
Platforms
Where you can use Codex today.
Web
CLI
IDE extensions
Integrations
Notable connected tools and ecosystem hooks for Codex.
GitHub
VS Code
Cursor
Windsurf
Privacy Notes
Publicly stated data-handling notes that matter when evaluating Codex.
Codex follows ChatGPT plan-level access and rate limits.
OpenAI says Plus and Pro conversations may be used to improve models unless you turn off training in ChatGPT data controls.
OpenAI says business, enterprise, edu, and API data is not used to train models by default.
Codex tasks run in isolated sandboxes; internet access is off by default for cloud tasks and can be enabled per environment.
Compliance
Public compliance or enterprise-governance signals we found for Codex.
SOC 2 Type II
ISO/IEC 27001
ISO/IEC 27017
ISO/IEC 27018
ISO/IEC 27701
CSA STAR
GDPR support
CCPA support
Access
How to integrate or build around Codex.
Public API
No
Alternatives
Other tools worth considering alongside Codex.
Anthropic's coding agent for terminal, web, and IDE-based software work.
AI-native editor for autocomplete, code understanding, and agentic software work.
AI coding assistant built into GitHub, IDEs, and coding workflows.
Product Snapshot
Codex is an openAI’s coding agent for parallel software tasks across the cloud, terminal, and IDE. It is aimed at developers who want to delegate substantial coding tasks to cloud agents.
What You Can Do With It
- Delegate code changes, bug fixes, and refactors to cloud agents.
- Run Codex across the app, CLI, and IDE with the same ChatGPT account.
- Open pull requests and review diffs from isolated cloud sandboxes.
- Use it from ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise/Edu plans.
Why It Stands Out
It is built for developers who want to delegate substantial coding tasks to cloud agents.
Tradeoffs To Know
- Codex is bundled with paid ChatGPT plans, and the current Free and Go access is only temporary.
- Active Codex usage on supported Plus, Pro 5x, Pro 20x, Business, and newer Enterprise plans now follows OpenAI’s Codex rate card instead of a simple message cap.
- Codex follows ChatGPT plan-level access and rate limits.
- OpenAI says Plus and Pro conversations may be used to improve models unless you turn off training in ChatGPT data controls.
- There is no public API, so integrations stay limited to the app surface and any built-in sharing features.
Changes to this tool page
- April 2026 Restored the separate $100 Pro 5x tier after re-checking OpenAI's current Help Center plan documentation.
- April 2026 Updated Codex plan language after OpenAI moved active usage onto a token-based rate card for supported ChatGPT plans.
- April 2026 Removed a generic pricing caveat that was not specific enough to this tool after a catalog review.
- April 2026 Added a pricing note clarifying the current ChatGPT plan access for Codex.
Sources
- help.openai.com/en/articles/11369540-codex-in-chatgpt
- help.openai.com/en/articles/20001106-codex-rate-card
- help.openai.com/en/articles/9793128-what-is-chatgpt-pro%3F
- openai.com/about
- openai.com/index/openai-announces-new-members-to-board-of-directors
- openai.com/index/review-completed-altman-brockman-to-continue-to-lead-openai
- openai.com/index/accelerating-the-next-phase-ai
- openai.com/policies/invoice-submission-guidelines
- openai.com/careers/head-of-operations-corporate-security-san-francisco
- openai.com/index/introducing-the-codex-app
- platform.openai.com/docs/models/codex%3F.pls