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Codex Gets Flexible Pricing: Pay-as-You-Go Seats for Teams!

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Hey there, it's Shiichan! Today's news is about the pricing around Codex, your trusty coding buddy. Anything that touches the wallet always gets me a little curious. Let's dig in!

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What was announced?

This one comes from OpenAI's News. Teams on ChatGPT Business and Enterprise can now add Codex-only seats to their workspaces with pay-as-you-go pricing, giving full access to Codex without a fixed seat fee.

That means a small group can start a pilot, prove value in a few critical workflows, and expand from there.

The story so far

Until now, using Codex generally meant a ChatGPT Business or Enterprise seat, and those seats came with Codex usage limits. That's great when you want to hand ChatGPT to everyone, but if you only wanted a few engineers to really lean on Codex, the fixed seat fee could feel a bit heavy.

What changes

Codex-only seats have no rate limits, and usage is billed on token consumption. So you get a clearer view of how usage turns into spend, and it's easier to track costs across budgets, workflows, and teams.

Teams that need broad ChatGPT access can keep using standard ChatGPT Business seats that include Codex usage limits, and the annual price of ChatGPT Business is dropping from $25 to $20 per seat.

Dive Deep

  • Pricing: Codex-only seats are token-based pay-as-you-go, with no rate limits and no fixed seat fee.
  • Adoption credits: Eligible ChatGPT Business workspaces can receive $100 in credits for each new Codex-only team member who joins and starts using Codex, up to $500 per team, for a limited time. To activate it, add Codex-only seats to your workspace or create a new ChatGPT Business workspace.
  • One important update: As of June 24, 2026, new Codex pay-as-you-go seats are no longer available for Business plans. Existing pay-as-you-go seats are not affected.
  • How fast is it growing? More than 9 million paying business users rely on ChatGPT for work, and more than 2 million builders now use Codex every week. Within ChatGPT Business and Enterprise, the number of Codex users has grown 6x since January, with teams at Notion, Ramp, Braintrust, and Wasmer accelerating their engineering workflows.

Wrap-up

  • Codex-only seats arrive with pay-as-you-go pricing on ChatGPT Business/Enterprise (token-based, no rate limits, no fixed seat fee).
  • The annual price of ChatGPT Business drops from $25 to $20 per seat.
  • For a limited time, eligible workspaces get $100 per new Codex-only member, up to $500 per team.
  • But as of June 24, 2026, new pay-as-you-go seats for Business plans are gone (existing ones continue).

This one lands for teams that want to seriously trial Codex with a small group, and for admins who want a clearer handle on costs!

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