Codex moves to token-based billing from April, with credits and plan limits

Sep 25, 2026 · Issue 8 · 4 sources, 4 articles

From April, OpenAI's Codex pricing counts usage in tokens (input, cached input, output) rather than a fixed per-message price. A review dated 25 September summarizes the details of the plans and limits.

Who is affected and how

CTO

Cost depends on usage, so plan a budget and set up alerts.

tech lead

Measure the team's token consumption before choosing a plan.

Narrative: The end of cheap, unlimited AI coding

Sources

• Codex Pricing, Usage, and Plan Limitschatgpt.uwarp.design · Sep 25, 2026
• Codex outage lasts 56 minutes as OpenAI resets paid usage limitspasquale pillitteri · Sep 26, 2026
• OpenAI Resets Codex and ChatGPT Limits After Service Disruption | TokenPosttokenpost.com · Sep 26, 2026
• Tibo: OpenAI has reset Codex and ChatGPT usage limits for all paid users | PANews Englishpanews.io · Sep 26, 2026

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