Clarification on OpenAI Pro Plan Login Behavior
Resolved 💬 7 comments Opened Jul 5, 2025 by ColeMurray Closed Aug 8, 2025
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (gpeal, contributor)
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What is the type of issue?
Documentation is confusing
What is the issue?
Hi Codex team,
In #1440 , documentation was added to allow login from plus/pro plans. It was perceived that this would use the subscription, similar to Claude code.
However, I do see charges being incurred under my account using gpt-4o, so the documentation is confusing.
Can you clarify what the Plus/Pro plan login does, beyond just generating an API key?
Where did you find it?
_No response_
7 Comments
I have the same problem. It just creates an API key and its pay per use.
Same here. I'm a Pro plan subscriber but when I use
codex login, at the end of the authentication process I get aCredit redemption request failed: HTTP Error 400: Bad RequestNo usage is included.
I have opened an issue to include usage via ChatGPT login and subscription, see: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/1458
Comment and vote in that issue if you don't want to pay API prices.
I think it does exactly that (generates an API key). You can apply for complimentary daily tokens at https://platform.openai.com/settings/organization/data-controls/sharing but it seems that Codex CLI doesn’t have any other “free tokens” scheme.
it looks like we can use it with a subscription now: https://x.com/embirico/status/1953522026477679066
@dirceu At least team plan doesn't work.
Please vote and comment: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/1984
You can now use your ChatGPT plan directly with Codex CLI!
https://github.com/openai/codex#using-codex-with-your-chatgpt-plan
As of 0.19, you should be able to run
codex loginand Codex will default to ChatGPT over OPENAI_API_KEY when sethttps://github.com/openai/codex/pull/1971