OpenAI Will Combine ChatGPT and Codex Token Allowances for Plus, Pro and Business Plans

OpenAI will combine ChatGPT and Codex usage into one shared token allowance for Plus, Pro and Business subscribers starting in December 2026, Crypto Briefing reported on October 31, 2026. Usage across both products will be counted against a single credit balance measured in credits per million tokens across all models.

How the Shared ChatGPT and Codex Balance Works

The unified allowance covers OpenAI's three main paid tiers: Plus, Pro and Business. Codex, the company's coding agent, sits more fully inside the ChatGPT ecosystem under the change. Plan structures still differ: Pro plans do not carry a 5-hour limit, while Plus and Business plans do, and Pro users may still face weekly caps.

For developers, the shared pool removes the situation of running out of Codex capacity while ChatGPT credits sit unused. A team that leans heavily on Codex for coding could find its general ChatGPT usage squeezed. For Business customers, a single metered balance is easier to track and forecast than two separate ones.

OpenAI has adjusted allowances several times. In October 2026, allowances for Pro 100 and Pro 500 doubled, and a planned reduction for Pro 200 was canceled. In late December 2025, OpenAI offered temporary doublings of Codex limits.

OpenAI's Move to Token-Based Pricing

On April 2, 2026, OpenAI shifted to token-based usage pricing measured in credits per million tokens, replacing a per-message estimate that treated a quick question and a compute-heavy request as roughly equivalent units. The token system was designed to better reflect the computational demands of different tasks, particularly for advanced models such as GPT-6.

According to akta.pro company records, OpenAI closed a $122 billion funding round in April 2026 at an $852 billion valuation, the largest private market raise in history, led by Amazon with $50 billion, Nvidia with $30 billion and SoftBank with $30 billion. The same records put monthly revenue at approximately $2 billion, or $25 billion annualized, up from $1 billion per quarter at the end of 2024, with enterprise sales at 40% of revenue.

Earlier OpenAI Enterprise and Compute Deals

In June 2026, HP Inc. announced a strategic partnership to deploy the OpenAI Frontier platform across its global operations, becoming one of the first global enterprises to adopt Frontier for customer-facing experiences, internal operations, employee productivity and software development, according to akta.pro company records.

Also in June 2026, Cerebras agreed to provide inference compute for OpenAI models, with GPT-5.6 Sol launching on Cerebras hardware at up to 750 tokens per second under a $20 billion contract for compute capacity, the same records show. CoreWeave supplies GPU cloud capacity to OpenAI and holds a $99 billion backlog.

December 2026 Policy Clarifications

Further policy clarifications were suggested for December 2026, the same month the shared allowance begins. Open questions include how weekly caps on Pro plans will interact with the combined allowance and whether Plus and Business users will find the 5-hour limits more restrictive once Codex draws from the same balance.