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Using GPT-5.1 Codex Max on OpenAI API

Implementation guide · GPT-5.1 · OpenAI

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OpenAI API exposes GPT-5.1 Codex Max through model ID gpt-5.1-codex-max. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.

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Quick Start

  1. 1
    Create an account at OpenAI API and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the OpenAI API SDK or REST API to call gpt-5.1-codex-max — see the documentation for request format.
  3. 3
    You'll be billed $1.25/1M input, $10.00/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

Code Examples

Install
pip install openai
API key
OPENAI_API_KEY
Model ID
gpt-5.1-codex-max

Use the model slug directly, e.g. "gpt-4o" or "gpt-4.1-mini".

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI()  # reads OPENAI_API_KEY from env
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="gpt-5.1-codex-max",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Pricing on OpenAI API

TypePrice (per 1M)
Input tokens$1.25
Output tokens$10.00

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalReasoningJSON / Tool useStructured Outputs

About GPT-5.1 Codex Max

OpenAI's GPT-5.1-Codex-Max is a code-specialized model released November 19, 2025, optimized for agentic coding tasks including project-scale refactors, debugging, and multi-file edits. Uses context compaction to handle long-running tasks beyond a single context window. 30% more token-efficient than previous Codex on SWE-bench. Supports an extra-high reasoning effort option.

Model Specs

Released2025-11-19
Knowledge cutoff2024-09

Provider

OpenAI API
OpenAI API

OpenAI

San Francisco, California, United States