Codex costs and claims: every figure from a sentence that names it
8 of the 629 figures in these field notes come from a sentence that names Codex. Each one is quoted verbatim from the write-up it appeared in, with the day that write-up went out.
Some of these are about Codex and some only measure against it — a competitor’s price quoted next to Codex’s belongs here too, because that is the sentence someone searching for the comparison is looking for. The sentence tells you which is which.
This is not a Codex price sheet. Nothing here is read off a vendor page. These are figures a working developer wrote down, and the date is the day the piece was published — not the day the price was in force. Model prices move fast: read every row as of its own date, and treat an old one as a lead rather than a quote.
The figures
- 70% — “Headline: 70% Cheaper AI Coding: How I Bypassed Codex’s 5-Hour Limit” (2026-09-30) →
- 5-hour — “If you’re hitting the 5-hour Codex limit like clockwork every day, stop counting minutes.” (2026-09-30) →
- 5-Hour — “Headline: Hitting the Codex 5-Hour Wall?” (2026-09-30) →
- $0.028 — “Headline: Codex vs. OpenCodex: One Costs $0.028/M Token.” (2026-09-30) →
- 80% — “A local proxy called OpenCodex redirects Codex requests to Chinese models such as DeepSeek and Zhipu GLM, which sidesteps the five-hour quota window and reportedly cuts cost by more than 80% — 10 yuan of DeepSeek credit lasting several days, with measured latency in the 100–200ms range and model switching that doesn’t break conversation context.” (2026-09-16) →
- 55.7 billion tokens — “July: 55.7 billion tokens, seventh on that month’s 30-day leaderboard, almost all of it through CodeX.” (2026-09-16) →
- 5-hour — “In one case, GPT-6 Astra running a small tool directly in Codex used up a 5-hour quota in 2 minutes 41 seconds.” (2026-09-14) →
- 4 hours — “He used OpenAI Codex’s Record & Replay to automate monthly report generation, taking it from 4 hours to a few minutes.” (2026-08-05) →
All 629 figures, every kind · JSON · CSV
Where these 8 came from
- 63 Billion Tokens in One Month, Spent Writing Google Ads for Amazon Sellers · reply box · telegra.ph
- Bypass Codex Rate Limits: The Local Proxy Path to 70% Cost Savings · reply box · telegra.ph
- How Chinese Developers Are Using Codex Record & Replay to Streamline Repetitive Workflows · reply box · telegra.ph
- How to Turn the Workflows You Won’t Document Into Agent Skills · reply box · telegra.ph
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