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ChatGPT Free
OpenAIfree$0
Last checked: 2026-10-14
- First limit you hit
- Vendor publishes no figure
- Equivalent API value
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- Value multiple
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- When it runs out
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- Scenario
- Interactive use only
Allowances
Vendor publishes no figure
usage limit, figure not published
›The vendor's own wording
The Free card reads "Explore Codex capabilities on quick coding tasks." and offers "GPT-6 Luna at Standard speed in the desktop app, subject to rollout". The limits table has no Free column, and the page gives Free no figure or window; of every plan it says only that "The number of messages you can send depends on the model used, size and complexity of your tasks, and whether you run them locally or in the cloud."Open the source page
Models included
| Model | Capability | Burn rate | |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-6 Luna | untiered | — | GPT-6 Luna at Standard speed in the desktop app, subject to rollout |
Subscription versus your own API key
This compares two ways of working the same way — in an IDE or CLI, where BYOK tools make a direct API key a real option. It is not a claim that subscriptions are cheaper than the API in general.
| Model | Effective price / 1M tokens | vs API rate | Breakeven |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-6 Lunauntiered | — | — | 0.0M |
Usage terms
Quoted from the vendor's own terms. We do not give legal advice.
The Terms of Use, under "What you cannot do", state: "You may not use our Services for any illegal, harmful, or abusive activity. For example, you may not: ... Automatically or programmatically extract data or Output (defined below)." The same list also prohibits users from "circumvent any rate limits or restrictions or bypass any protective measures or safety mitigations we put on our Services". Note that the clause carries no carve-out for API access — the exemption is not in the wording, so the separation rests on billing rather than on the prohibition itself: OpenAI's pricing page attaches Codex to the ChatGPT plan and offers API access as a separate option, "Pay for Codex usage based on API pricing".
Change history
- 2026-10-14Recorded from the seed file