Comment by sergiotapia 9 hours ago
I signed up to OpenAI, verified my identity, and added my credit card, bought $10 of credits.
But when I installed Codex and tried to make a simple code bugfix, I got rate limited nearly immediately. As in, after 3 "steps" the agent took.
Are you meant to only use Codex with their $200 "unlimited" plans? Thanks!
Thank you - so to confirm Codex _requires_ basically the Plus or $200 plans otherwise it just does not work?
The new GPT-5-Codex model isn't yet available in the API, so if you want to try that model using the Codex CLI tool the only way to do that is with a ChatGPT account (I'm more sure if the free account has it, the $20/month definitely does). You need to then authenticate Codex CLI with ChatGPT.
OpenAI say API access to that model is coming soon, at which point till be able to use it in Codex CLI with an API key and pay for tokens as you go.
You can also use the Codex CLI tool without using the new GPT-5-Codex model.
That's what was in my OP, I used the API approach, but the rate limits were insanely low (seemingly?) the agent died after 3 steps in a single question.
why people are willing to jump all these hoops?