LLM Reference

GPT-5 Codex

Released
2025-10-01
Last refreshed
2026-05-22
Status
Researched 45d ago
ProprietaryCommercial use with conditionsMultimodalCodingRAGAgentsLong contextVisionJSON / Tool use

GPT-5 Codex is worth evaluating for coding, rag, and agents when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating coding, rag, and agents
  • Workloads that can use a 400k context window
  • Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route

Do not use it for

  • Workloads where another current model has stronger sourced task evidence
Specifications
Family
GPT-5
Released
2025-10-01
Context
400k
Architecture
Decoder Only
Knowledge cutoff
2024-09
Specialization
code
Openness
Proprietary
License
ProprietaryCommercial use with conditions
Training
pretrained
Created by

Cutting-edge research and development.

San Francisco, California, United States
Founded 2015
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
$10.00
Input / 1M
$1.25

Cheapest of 1 route · Vercel AI Gateway · cache read $0.125

About

GPT-5 Codex is OpenAI's coding-specialized variant of GPT-5, optimized for software engineering workflows, code generation, and agentic coding tasks at 400K context.

GPT-5 Codex is a proprietary model in the GPT-5 family. The structured metadata tracks a 400k-token context window, multimodal input, function calling, tool use, structured outputs, and code execution. This page tracks provider routes through Vercel AI Gateway, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $1.25 input and $10 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for GPT-5 Codex yet.

Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks

Coding

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

RAG

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Agents

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MCacheRoute
Vercel AI Gateway$1.25$10.00read $0.125
Serverless

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalFunction CallingTool UseStructured OutputsCode Execution

Benchmark peer barsfor Coding

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.