OpenAI ups Codex price tier

OpenAI just inserted a new rung into its pricing ladder: ChatGPT Pro now comes in a $100-a-month version, sitting between ChatGPT Plus at $20 and the heavier $200 Pro tier. The company says the new plan includes 5 times the limits of Plus and, for a limited time, 10 times Codex usage versus Plus. (help.openai.com) Codex is OpenAI’s coding agent, which means it is built to do software jobs like writing features, fixing bugs, and proposing pull requests instead of only chatting about code. OpenAI says each Codex task can run in its own cloud sandbox tied to a repository, so the product is aimed at actual engineering workflows, not just autocomplete. (openai.com) That matters because the old jump was awkward. A solo developer choosing between $20 Plus and $200 Pro was looking at a tenfold price jump, and the new $100 tier cuts that jump in half. (help.openai.com) OpenAI has also been changing how Codex is billed under the hood. On April 2, 2026, the company said it moved Codex pricing for Plus, Pro, ChatGPT Business, and new ChatGPT Enterprise plans from per-message billing to token-based usage, which ties cost more directly to how much work the model actually does. (help.openai.com) At the team level, OpenAI made a second shift in the same week. On April 2, 2026, it announced pay-as-you-go pricing for ChatGPT Business and Enterprise customers, so companies could start Codex without committing to fixed seat costs for every user. (openai.com) Put those two moves together and the pattern is pretty clear: individuals now get a middle-priced subscription, while companies get usage-based spending instead of an all-or-nothing seat purchase. That gives OpenAI more ways to charge for coding work at the exact moment Codex is moving from research preview into broader workplace use. (help.openai.com, openai.com, openai.com) OpenAI has been steadily building the product around that monetization push. In October 2025, it said Codex was generally available and added things like a Slack integration, a software development kit, usage dashboards, and workspace management tools for admins. (openai.com) Then in early 2026 it pushed Codex further toward multi-agent work. OpenAI’s Codex app for macOS lets several agents run in parallel across projects, using separate worktrees and cloud environments so one developer can juggle multiple long-running tasks at once. (openai.com) The pricing change lands in that context: Codex is no longer being sold like a novelty add-on. OpenAI’s own product pages now describe it as included across Free, Go, Plus, Pro, Business, Education, and Enterprise plans, with different limits and credit rules depending on how serious the workload is. (developers.openai.com, help.openai.com) For app teams, that can change who gets access. A $100 plan is expensive for a casual user, but it is much easier to justify for a mobile growth lead, a product manager, or a developer who needs more Codex capacity than Plus offers and does not need the full $200 tier. (help.openai.com) It also gives OpenAI a cleaner path from hobby use to company spend. A person can start on Plus, move to $100 Pro when coding work becomes regular, and then graduate to Business or Enterprise when the work needs admin controls, shared billing, and larger usage pools. (help.openai.com, openai.com, developers.openai.com) That is why a single new price point is more than a billing tweak. OpenAI is turning Codex into a full product ladder, with one step for occasional users, one for serious individual builders, and another for teams that want coding agents woven into everyday software work. (help.openai.com, developers.openai.com, openai.com)