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Using GPT-5.2 Codex on OpenAI API

Implementation guide · GPT-5 · OpenAI

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OpenAI API exposes GPT-5.2 Codex through model ID gpt-5.2-codex. 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-5.2-codex — see the documentation for request format.
  3. 3
    You'll be billed $1.75/1M input, $14.00/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

Code Examples

Install
pip install openai
API key
OPENAI_API_KEY
Model ID
gpt-5.2-codex

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-5.2-codex",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Pricing on OpenAI API

TypePrice (per 1M)
Input tokens$1.75
Output tokens$14.00

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalReasoningJSON / Tool useStructured OutputsCode ExecutionPrompt Caching

About GPT-5.2 Codex

GPT-5.2-Codex is OpenAI's agentic coding model built on GPT-5.2, released December 18, 2025. Optimized for long-horizon professional software engineering tasks including large refactors, multi-file changes, and codebase migrations. Features context compaction for handling tasks exceeding a single context window, enhanced vision for interpreting screenshots, diagrams, and UI, and strengthened safeguards for defensive cybersecurity workflows. Available to paid ChatGPT users and via the Responses API.

Model Specs

Released2025-12-18
Context400k
ArchitectureDecoder Only
Knowledge cutoff2025-08

Provider

OpenAI API
OpenAI API

OpenAI

San Francisco, California, United States