OpenAI adds Codex-only seats with usage-based pricing for Business and Enterprise

• OpenAI now lets ChatGPT Business and Enterprise customers add Codex-only seats with no fixed license fee, billing only on token usage instead OpenAI announcement.
• Those Codex-only seats come with no rate limits, while standard ChatGPT Business seats still include Codex usage limits OpenAI blog link.
• OpenAI also cut the annual ChatGPT Business price from $25 to $20 per seat, alongside a limited credit offer for new Codex-only users Pricing summary tweet.
• The company says Codex usage inside Business and Enterprise has grown 6x since January, with more than 2 million weekly Codex users overall Official post.

You can read the full announcement, browse the main Codex product page, and OpenAI is already pitching the desktop app plus newer features like Plugins and Automations as the easiest team entry point. A separate OpenAI post says the app has already moved ahead of the VS Code extension and CLI as Codex's most-used surface Codex app usage tweet.

OpenAI's core change is simple: Codex is no longer locked to a broader ChatGPT seat for every user. Business and Enterprise admins can add seats that are only for Codex, then pay based on consumption.

The official post makes two mechanical changes explicit in one place: Codex-only seats have no rate limits, and billing is tied to token consumption rather than a fixed per-user fee. That gives teams a cleaner way to run pilots or isolate spend around coding work without buying full ChatGPT access for every developer, according to OpenAI's post.

OpenAI also framed the launch around expansion inside existing workspaces. The follow-up post says teams already using Codex can now scale it across the org, which is a different pitch from the earlier bundled model Already using Codex?.

The pricing update did not only add metered Codex seats. OpenAI also lowered the annual ChatGPT Business list price from $25 to $20 per seat, while leaving standard seats as the path for broader ChatGPT access with Codex usage limits, per the official announcement.

For a limited time, eligible ChatGPT Business workspaces get $100 in credits for each new Codex-only team member, capped at $500 per team Credit offer thread. Greg Brockman separately described the change as a way to try Codex at work with no up-front commitment Brockman reaction.

OpenAI paired that pricing shift with adoption numbers: more than 9 million paying business users on ChatGPT, more than 2 million weekly Codex users, and 6x growth in Codex usage inside Business and Enterprise since January, according to the same post.

OpenAI's own product pages now push the Codex app hard. The Codex page describes it as a command center for multi-agent coding, with built-in worktrees, cloud environments, Skills, and Automations.

That positioning is not just marketing copy. OpenAI's Thomas Sottiaux said the Codex app is now the company's most-used Codex surface, ahead of both the VS Code extension and the CLI. For a product that started with developer-native entry points, that is a notable signal about where team usage is concentrating.