Plus account marked as free in codex cli
Resolved 💬 9 comments Opened Oct 23, 2025 by lc-steve Closed Dec 5, 2025
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor)
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What version of Codex is running?
codex-cli 0.47.0
What subscription do you have?
Plus
Which model were you using?
gpt-5
What platform is your computer?
Mac
What issue are you seeing?
steve@xxxxxxxx.com (Free) │
│ Session: 019a1049-c0d9-70d2-b1eb-888666d6bc0f
To use Codex with your ChatGPT plan, upgrade to Plus: https://openai.com/chatgpt/pricing.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
login, authenticate on web.
What is the expected behavior?
allow usage
Additional information
_No response_
9 Comments
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Thanks for the bug report.
A few follow-up questions: Did you recently upgrade to plus? If you log out and log back in, does the problem go away?
hello
i didn't recently upgrade - been plus for a while (weeks or more)
i did try to logout and login of codex and open website - in website says plus, in codex says free
thanks
From: Eric Traut @.*>
Date: Thursday, 23 October 2025 at 18:11
To: openai/codex @.*>
Cc: lc-steve @.>, Author @.>
Subject: Re: [openai/codex] Plus account marked as free in codex cli (Issue #5550)
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Thanks for the bug report.
A few follow-up questions: Did you recently upgrade to plus? If you log out and log back in, does the problem go away?
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+1 same problem
same here
Yes, same problem. I hope it's not limiting me thinking i'm a free user.
Same problem here.
same problem here
This bug is addressed by PR #7610. The fix will be in the next release (0.66).