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OpenAI: GPT-5 Codex

openai/gpt-5-codex

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GPT-5-Codex is a specialized version of GPT-5 optimized for software engineering and coding workflows. It is designed for both interactive development sessions and long, independent execution of complex engineering tasks. The model supports building projects from scratch, feature development, debugging, large-scale refactoring, and code review. Compared to GPT-5, Codex is more steerable, adheres closely to developer instructions, and produces cleaner, higher-quality code outputs. Reasoning effort can be adjusted with the reasoning.effort parameter. Read the docs here(opens in new tab)

Codex integrates into developer environments including the CLI, IDE extensions, GitHub, and cloud tasks. It adapts reasoning effort dynamically—providing fast responses for small tasks while sustaining extended multi-hour runs for large projects. The model is trained to perform structured code reviews, catching critical flaws by reasoning over dependencies and validating behavior against tests. It also supports multimodal inputs such as images or screenshots for UI development and integrates tool use for search, dependency installation, and environment setup. Codex is intended specifically for agentic coding applications.

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Input Price

$1.25per 1M

Output Price

$10per 1M

Context

400K

Weekly Tokens

1.7B

Released

Sep 23, 2025

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Sample code and API for GPT-5 Codex

OpenRouter normalizes requests and responses across providers for you.

1

Get your API key

Create an API key from your OpenRouter dashboard and set it as an environment variable:

2

Make your first request

Use openai/gpt-5-codex with the OpenRouter API:

OpenRouter provides an OpenAI-compatible completion API to 400+ models & providers that you can call directly, or using the OpenAI SDK. Additionally, some third-party SDKs are available.

In the examples below, the OpenRouter-specific headers are optional. Setting them allows your app to appear on the OpenRouter leaderboards.

Using third-party SDKs

For information about using third-party SDKs and frameworks with OpenRouter, please see our frameworks documentation.

3

Enable streaming

Add "stream": true to your request body to receive responses as server-sent events:

Endpoint

POSThttps://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions
AuthorizationBearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY
Content-Typeapplication/json
HTTP-Refereroptional — your site URL, for rankings
X-Titleoptional — your site name, for rankings
Modelopenai/gpt-5-codex

Parameters

NameTypeDefaultDescription
reasoningmap—Controls reasoning behavior for models that support thinking tokens, including whether reasoning is enabled, the reasoning effort, maximum reasoning tokens, and whether reasoning is excluded from the response.
include_reasoningboolean—Deprecated alias for reasoning.exclude.
structured_outputsboolean—If the model can return structured outputs using response_format json_schema.
response_formatmap—Forces the model to produce specific output format.
seedinteger—If specified, the inferencing will sample deterministically, such that repeated requests with the same seed and parameters should return the same result.
max_tokensinteger—This sets the upper limit for the number of tokens the model can generate in response.
toolsarray—Tool calling parameter, following OpenAI's tool calling request shape.
tool_choicestring or object—Controls which (if any) tool is called by the model.