OpenAI Codex offers a free tier ("Free"). We are not publishing a free-tier verdict for Claude Code. The page we cite for Claude Code states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02. We are not comparing the two pricing histories.
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Agentic coding tool by Anthropic: it reads a codebase, edits files, runs commands and works with development tools, in the terminal, IDEs, a desktop app and the browser. No free plan: "Claude Code is included in all paid plans", and Claude's Free plan does not include it. Pro is $20/month billed monthly ($17/month billed annually), Max is $100/month (5x) or $200/month (20x), Team Standard seats are $25/seat billed monthly ($20 billed annually), and Enterprise is "$20 per seat per month plus usage billed at API rates". Plan usage is shared with Claude chat. At the limit, paid plans can turn on usage credits billed at standard API rates, or use an Anthropic API key billed pay-as-you-go.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Coding agent by OpenAI. Available with a ChatGPT subscription, including the $0 Free plan, and separately with an API key billed on token use; both routes are current. OpenAI's Codex pricing page lists Free ($0/month, "Explore Codex capabilities on quick coding tasks") and Go ($8/month, "Use Codex for lightweight coding tasks"), both with GPT-6 Luna at Standard speed in the desktop app, subject to rollout. Plus ($20/month) adds Codex on the web, in the CLI, in the IDE extension and on iOS, cloud code review and Slack integrations, and GPT-6 Sol. Pro (from $100/month) gives 5x or 20x more Codex usage than Plus. ChatGPT Business has two seat types, both carrying Codex: Standard at $20/user/mo billed annually ($25 monthly) and Premium at $100/user/mo billed annually ($125 monthly), where Premium buys 5x more usage than Standard and removes the five-hour usage limit. The Codex pricing page we cite lists only the Standard seat — the Premium seat is published on OpenAI's business pricing page. Codex-only pay-as-you-go seats closed to new Business workspaces on 2026-06-24; existing seats continue. With an API key, Codex runs in the CLI, SDK or IDE extension at API prices, without the cloud features.
Pricing Change History
Claude Code
restrictedeffective 2026-04-04medium impact
No longer in force (2026-05-13). From noon Pacific on 2026-04-04, Claude subscription limits stopped covering third-party harnesses such as OpenClaw. That usage had to be paid for as extra usage, billed separately from the subscription. No longer in force from 2026-05-13, when Anthropic let third-party apps draw on Claude subscriptions again. The separate Agent SDK credit it announced for 2026-06-15 was paused that day: "For now, nothing has changed: Claude Agent SDK, claude -p, and third-party app usage still draw from your subscription's usage limits." Source ↗
OpenAI Codex
deprecatedeffective 2026-10-14medium impact
GPT-5.5 retires from ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work and Codex on all plans on 2026-10-14. OpenAI's Codex pricing page, which now redirects to learn.chatgpt.com, says the OpenAI API is not affected. Source ↗
new tiereffective 2026-04-02medium impact
OpenAI added Codex-only seats for ChatGPT Business and Enterprise workspaces, with no fixed seat fee, no rate limits and usage billed on token consumption, and cut ChatGPT Business's annual price from $25 to $20 per seat. Standard Business seats, which include Codex with usage limits, continued. Source ↗
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