Your organization must be verified to use the model 'gpt-5'. Please go to: https://platform.openai.com/settings/organization/general and click on Verify Organization. If you just verified, it can take up to 15 minutes for access to propagate.
Resolved 💬 9 comments Opened Aug 8, 2025 by AnthonyRonning Closed Aug 8, 2025
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (pakrym-oai, contributor)
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What version of Codex is running?
0.16
Which model were you using?
gpt-5
What platform is your computer?
_No response_
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Be a human that thinks KYC for models is fucking stupid, then try using codex
What is the expected behavior?
it should work
What do you see instead?
Your organization must be verified to use the model 'gpt-5'. Please go to: https://platform.openai.com/settings/organization/general and click on Verify Organization. If you just verified, it can take up to 15 minutes for access to propagate.
Additional information
_No response_
9 Comments
This isnt a codex issue, this is an API "issue".
GPT5 without organization verification works only without streaming mode.
If you use streaming mode it get this error.
https://community.openai.com/t/why-can-non-verified-organisations-use-gpt-5-and-gpt-5-mini-but-not-stream-them/1338294/1
Hi! Can you run
codex login statusplease? You might have the OPENAI_API_KEY variable set that forces codex to use API instead of the included ChatGPT credits.Yes, I have
OPENAI_API_KEYset in my global env though I usedcodex loginto go through the oauth flow.Can you please try 0.19, we've adjusted the order of authentication sources there?
okay this worked! Thank you.
@pakrym-oai will you accept a PR for this, a config option for disabling streaming? i have one ready to go.
seriously. fix this
still encountering this issue. I am using gosdk v3, with service token.