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By the toolist.ai editors. Read from Codex's pricing page, not hands-on tested by toolist.ai. Updated October 16, 2026.

Codex pricing

Codex's cheapest paid plan is Go at $8 a month billed monthly. The free plan: ChatGPT Free includes limited Codex use: GPT-6 Luna at Standard speed in the ChatGPT desktop app, subject to rollout, with no cloud tasks or image generation; OpenAI publishes no fixed allowance.

Free plan: ChatGPT Free includes limited Codex use: GPT-6 Luna at Standard speed in the ChatGPT desktop app, subject to rollout, with no cloud tasks or image generation; OpenAI publishes no fixed allowance.

PlanBilled monthlyBilled yearly, per monthIncludes
Free free not listed Limited Codex use: GPT-6 Luna at Standard speed in the ChatGPT desktop app, subject to rollout; no cloud tasks or image generation
Go $8 not listed Codex for lightweight tasks: GPT-6 Luna at Standard speed in the desktop app, subject to rollout; no cloud tasks; billed monthly
Plus $20 not listed Codex in the desktop app, on the web, in the CLI, IDE extension and on iOS; cloud tasks, GitHub code review and Slack; GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6 Astra, Sol and Luna; an estimated 15 to 160 local GPT-6.1 Sol messages per five hours, weekly limits may apply; extra usage with credits
Pro 100 $100 not listed Everything in Plus with more usage and currently no five-hour limit (OpenAI does not say how much more); Computer History; billed monthly only
Pro 200 $200 not listed More usage than Pro 100; the allowance was lowered for new subscriptions in late September 2026, and earlier subscribers keep the old one only until October 29, 2026; billed monthly only
Pro 500 $500 not listed The highest included usage of the Pro plans, and Ultrafast mode for GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol, which uses included usage at 8 times the Standard rate; billed monthly only
Business (Standard seat) $25 $20 Per user, at least 2 seats and up to 200: ChatGPT and Codex with the same estimated limits as Plus, larger cloud machines, SAML SSO and MFA, workspace credits for extra usage; business data not used for training by default
Business (Premium seat) $125 $100 Per user: five times a Standard seat's usage and no five-hour limit; can be mixed with Standard seats
Enterprise & Edu not listed not listed Contact sales: priority processing, SCIM, EKM, RBAC, audit logs through the Compliance API, data retention and residency controls; with flexible pricing, a pooled credit balance and no fixed rate limits, otherwise per-seat limits like Plus
OpenAI API key not listed not listed Pay per million tokens at API rates: GPT-6.1 Sol $2 input and $10 output ($0.10 cached input), GPT-6 Luna $0.10 and $0.50, GPT-6 Astra $10 and $50, gpt-5.3-codex $1.75 and $14; prompts over 272,000 input tokens cost more. Codex in the CLI, SDK or IDE extension, with no cloud features such as GitHub code review or Slack
Cost per finished minuteNot measured by us, and the vendor does not publish an allowance we can divide by.

Prices last checked: 2026-10-16 on Codex's pricing page.

Price history

No price change since we first recorded these prices on October 13, 2026. We re-check them every week and list each change here.

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