Codex now offers more flexible pricing for teams

OpenAI has rolled out a significant update to its enterprise offerings, introducing a pay-as-you-go pricing structure for ChatGPT Business and Enterprise, powered by its Codex models. This shift marks a strategic move to lower the adoption barrier for organizations of all sizes. Instead of requiring substantial annual contracts or seat-based commitments, teams can now incur costs directly aligned with their API usage. This flexibility is designed to attract smaller teams and departments within larger companies that want to experiment with and scale AI capabilities on their own terms.

The new pricing model directly addresses a common pain point in corporate AI adoption: unpredictable budgeting and vendor lock-in. By aligning costs with actual consumption, finance and IT departments can better forecast expenses. For technical teams, this means they can integrate Codex's capabilities—such as code generation, document summarization, and data analysis—into workflows without a major procurement hurdle. This change likely reflects OpenAI's response to growing competition in the enterprise AI space from rivals like Anthropic's Claude Team and Microsoft's Copilot stack, pushing for more accessible entry points.