OpenAI adds workspace usage limits

OpenAI has added new spending controls for ChatGPT Enterprise and Edu customers, giving workspace owners and admins tools to set monthly usage limits, decide whether overages are allowed, and track shared credits. The changes were published in OpenAI Help Center documentation on August 5 and in updated enterprise release notes dated August 4. (help.openai.com) A separate Codex pricing update now breaks out credit rates across Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, Edu, Health and Gov plans under what OpenAI calls a flexible pricing structure. (help.openai.com) The Help Center page for Codex was updated about 21 hours before it was indexed by search results reviewed Wednesday. (help.openai.com) Together, the documents show OpenAI putting billing controls, role-based administration and plan-specific pricing into more explicit product documentation for workplace customers. OpenAI did not issue a separate newsroom announcement in the materials reviewed. (help.openai.com) ### Which customers got the new controls? ChatGPT Enterprise and Edu workspace owners and admins are the users named in OpenAI’s new usage-limits article. The company says those administrators can set monthly limits for users, control workspace overage usage and monitor shared credits. (help.openai.com) OpenAI’s Enterprise and Edu collection page also lists the new usage-limits article alongside other administrative tools, including IP allowlisting and workspace analytics features. That places the billing controls inside the broader admin console used by workplace customers. (help.openai.com) ### What exactly can admins now manage? OpenAI says workspace owners and admins can set monthly usage limits for users and control whether the workspace can continue using credits after included usage is exhausted. The same article says admins can monitor shared credits, indicating that usage can be tracked at the workspace level rather than only by individual user activity. (help.openai.com) The release-notes entry points users to both the new usage-limits page and the Global Admin Console, suggesting the controls are part of the existing administration flow rather than a separate product. OpenAI’s documentation does not, in the materials reviewed, give a public launch date beyond the release-note timing. (help.openai.com) ### What changed on the Codex pricing side? OpenAI’s Codex rate card says it outlines “the current credit rates” for Codex across Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, Edu, Health and Gov plans. The page describes that structure as flexible pricing and links readers to separate explanations for how credits work on consumer and business plans. (help.openai.com) The Codex collection page lists the rate card as a core reference document, and another ChatGPT rate-card page directs Business, Enterprise and Edu users to that Codex pricing page for coding-related rates. That separates Codex billing from broader ChatGPT message pricing. (help.openai.com) ### How does this fit with OpenAI’s broader credit system? OpenAI’s consumer credits article says included usage is consumed first and then usage draws from a credit balance after plan limits are reached. It also says some agentic features, including Codex, ChatGPT Work and ChatGPT for Excel, can draw from the same allowance or credit pool, depending on plan. (help.openai.com) The Chinese-language Codex rate-card page, which contains fuller indexed detail than the English search snippet, says OpenAI moved Codex to token-based pricing on April 2, 2026, and extended that update to existing Enterprise plans, including Edu, Health and Gov, on April 23, 2026. (help.openai.com) It also says users can monitor limits from Codex settings and that some agentic tools share the same usage and credit pool. ### Where do customers go next? OpenAI directs Enterprise and Edu administrators to the usage-limits article and Global Admin Console for workspace settings, while Codex customers are directed to the Codex rate card and related credits documentation. (help.openai.com) The company’s release notes say the related updates are now live for customers on the listed plans. (help.openai.com 1) (help.openai.com 2)