Make Planning Mode free for paid users so Codex tokens are reserved for real coding work

What variant of Codex are you using?

App / Web / CLI

What feature would you like to see?

I would like Codex to offer free Planning Mode for users with paid plans.

Planning Mode is essentially ChatGPT-style reasoning inside Codex before actual coding begins. It helps users clarify the task, break down the work, inspect the project, and decide what should be changed. But right now, this can consume a large amount of Codex usage before any real implementation happens.

For paid users, ChatGPT usage is already very generous, and in many cases it is hard to fully use up. So it feels inefficient when Planning Mode consumes scarce Codex tokens, even though the planning part is closer to normal ChatGPT reasoning than actual code execution.

A better model would be:

Free Planning Mode for paid users
Planning Mode should consume ChatGPT usage instead of Codex tokens
Codex tokens should be reserved for actual coding work: editing, running commands, testing, debugging, refactoring, and project-level changes

This would let users spend their limited Codex usage on the parts that really need Codex.

Additional information

The current model makes users feel like they are burning valuable Codex tokens just to think through the work.
Free Planning Mode would make Codex much more practical. It would shift more of the thinking and planning cost onto the already generous ChatGPT usage, while preserving Codex tokens for the work that actually needs Codex.
In short: let ChatGPT handle the planning burden, and let Codex tokens be used for actual coding.