I was vacationing! What's up with OpenAI now? Asking with some morbid curiosity tbh.
Codex shines really well at what I call "hard problems." You set thinking high, and you just let it throw raw power at the problem. Whereas, Claude Code is better at your average day-to-day "write me code" tasks.
So the difference is kind of nuanced. You kind of need to use both a while to get a real sense of it.
They’re still doing subscriptions: https://developers.openai.com/codex/pricing
Edit: Looks like it still works with subs, they just measure usage per token instead of per message.
There was a headline saying they were, and the actual article showed they were doing nothingbof the sort.
If you read HN headlines, and don't even bother to click into the comments and see everyone calling out the headline as bogus, you might think something like your statement is true.
Before a Subscription was the cheapest way to gain Codex usage, but now they've essentially having API and Subscription pricing match (e.g. $200 sub = $200 in API Codex usage).
The only value of a subscription now is that you get the web version of ChatGPT "free." In terms of raw Codex usage, you could just as easily buy API usage.
edit: This is currently rolled out for Enterprise, but is coming to Pro/Plus soon. The people below saying "I haven't had this issue" haven't yet*.
I don't think it's made out like that, I'm on the ChatGPT Pro plan for personal usage, and for a client I'm using the OpenAI API, both almost only using GPT 5.4 xhigh, done pretty much 50/50 work on client/personal projects, and clients API usage is up to 400 USD right now after a week of work, and ChatGPT Pro limit has 61% left, resets tomorrow.
Still seems to me you'd get a heck more out of the subscription than API credits.
In the future, open models and cheaper inference could cover the loss-leading strategies we see today.
They just rolled it out for new subscribers and existing ones will be getting it in the "coming weeks." Enterprise already got hit with this from my understanding.