- Codex is an “agent command center” for central administration of multiple developer agents
- It is available for all account types and most paid subscribers will get double limits
- Windows app and more performance upgrades coming soon
OpenAI has launched a dedicated macOS client for Codex that provides companies with a centralized dashboard to manage coding agents locally.
Described as an “agent command center,” OpenAI sees Codex more as a place to manage and coordinate teams of agents across the entire software lifecycle, including design, build, shipping, and maintenance—an evolution from previous single-agent coding efforts.
Designed primarily for Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu plans, which will get double rate caps for a limited time, Codex is also temporarily offered for free to Free and Go subscribers, so now’s the time to give it a try.
Codex for Mac is here, and for all users
“The core challenge has shifted from what agents can do to how people can direct, monitor and collaborate with them at scale,” the company said, criticizing current IDEs and terminal-based tools for their inability to handle this new type of work.
Being an OpenAI tool, there are naturally plenty of integrations at hand. Developers can deploy apps to cloud hosts such as Cloudflare, Netlify, Render and Vercel, generate images with GPT Image, and pull designs from Figma.
Users can also schedule repetitive background tasks such as fault triage with built-in automations for even more efficiency.
On the Codex front, OpenAI claims usage has more than doubled since the introduction of the updated GPT-5.2 Codex in mid-December 2025, with more than a million developers using the tool over the last month, from startups and indie developers all the way up to large enterprises.
Looking ahead, the company promises to work on a similar Windows app, as well as other improvements to model capabilities and inference speeds.
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