Codex pricing to align with API token usage, instead of per-message (help.openai.com)

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[−] PhilippGille 40d ago
Is this not just about extra credit? So what's included in the subscription doesn't change - just extra credits are now token based instead of message based? (For Plus/Pro)
[−] mrweasel 40d ago
Why not just attach a real dollar amount, rather than using "credits"?

Well, I know why. I just wanted to be snarky. It's just that trying to hide the actual price is getting a bit old. Just tell me that generating this much code will cost me $10.

[−] Skunkleton 40d ago
The title is misleading and not in the article. This change is for business/enterprise accounts. Also, these are still credit based. The change is that credits now operate on tokens like the API rather than on messages as they used to.
[−] Rastonbury 40d ago
So Anthropic bundled CC with Claude.ai cuz OAI bundled chatgpt with Codex, now OAI is unbundling, IPO must be around the corner. Writing is also on the wall for CC usage based subscriptions now that main competitor effectively got rid of it. How are the Chinese models looking?
[−] __mharrison__ 40d ago
For the past month, I've been claiming that $20/mo codex is the best deal in AI.

Now I'm going to have to find the new best deal.

[−] fabian2k 40d ago
Is this something that is likely to also change the way Github Copilot bills? Right now the billing is message-based, not token-based. And OpenAI and Microsoft are rather opaquely intertwined in the AI space.
[−] m-hodges 40d ago
The days of subsidized access is rapidly coming to an end.