Codex's Token Pricing: What Frontend Developers Need to Know
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Originally published on NextFuture Why this matters On April 5, 2026, OpenAI updated its Codex rate card: credits are now calculated per token type rather than per message. For many frontend engineers who rely on AI for code generation, documentation, and developer tooling, this is more than an accounting change — it affects budgets, CI pipelines, and product decisions. Quick summary: the problem Historically, many chat-based developer workflows were billed by an opaque