Unable to view the latest Codex 5.3 model
Resolved 💬 5 comments Opened Feb 13, 2026 by shettydev Closed Feb 13, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor)
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What version of Codex CLI is running?
codex-cli 0.101.0
What subscription do you have?
API key
Which model were you using?
Unable to use gpt-5.3-codex
What platform is your computer?
uname -mprs
What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?
Ghostty
What issue are you seeing?
Unable to view the 5.3 model. After the recent update, I could finally see the 5.3 model, but when I tried to see in model and update it to high, it was nowhere to be found, and only these models were listed:
<img width="823" height="356" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/43d48774-0df2-4f25-a83b-397d7bd0a58f" />
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Not sure how to reproduce this, but unable to view, model.
I even tried to manually update the config.toml to:
model = "gpt-5.3-codex"But that too didn't work:
<img width="860" height="250" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/718ccf1e-b8c1-42ac-82ac-f8673807929e" />
What is the expected behavior?
_No response_
Additional information
Is there something that I am missing? Help me out
5 Comments
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i too am facing the same issue with api access, it seems like 5.3 codex isnt available via the api but if i cant access it then why does it suggest me to update model.
<img width="1463" height="468" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/315624fe-3a4d-43f0-92f1-e7e7335abc56" />
if i update to new model i get this
<img width="1111" height="295" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/068fe9a9-bc9f-4919-9567-28b10e35df0f" />
maybe dont show the option to update model to api users
u prob got shadow banned from accessing it, getting verified fixed it for. http://chatgpt.com/cyber
The gpt-5.3-codex model is not yet available via API key access. It's currently available only through a ChatGPT subscription. We need to do additional security work before we can make it available via the API. For details, refer to this announcement.
As for the update announcement in the app, that's a bug, and it will be fixed in the next release.
Thankyou for the clarification, that helps a lot @etraut-openai