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codex-with-chatgpt

ChatGPT thinks. Codex works. Use ChatGPT as the planning brain while keeping the Codex harness.

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By Erik Loyd, SaaS CEO and former COO/CFO of an AWS Premier Partner.

Updated Sep 2026

Arbitrage on quota you already own. A ChatGPT Plus or Pro subscription has web usage sitting idle while your coding agent burns metered Codex tokens on planning and review. This bridge moves the thinking to the subscription and leaves execution with Codex.

Your workspace is exposed over an OAuth-protected, read-only MCP connection. ChatGPT reads exactly the lines it asks for and hands back a plan; the repo is never uploaded and never writable. One-paste install, no API key, no reverse proxy. Maintained by an independent developer, not OpenAI, with bilingual Chinese and English docs.

Install it if you run Codex daily and keep hitting planning limits. The catch is the trust boundary: a third-party bridge with live read access to your working tree is a call most security teams will make for you.

Free vs Self-Hosted vs Paid

fully free

Free (Open Source)

MIT licensed MCP bridge, one-paste install, no API key required
OAuth-protected, read-only connection from the ChatGPT web app to your local workspace
ChatGPT handles planning and review; Codex keeps full ownership of execution
Repository contents are read on demand rather than uploaded
Bilingual documentation, English and Chinese

Paid

Nothing from this project. It depends on a ChatGPT subscription you supply: Plus at $20 per month or Pro at $200 per month. Codex execution is billed separately by OpenAI.

Self-Hosted Costs

$0 for the bridge itself. It runs locally alongside your Codex session. The entire point is to shift work onto subscription quota you have already bought instead of metered API spend.

When to Pay

You are already paying OpenAI. This changes which bucket the work comes out of, not whether you pay.

The bridge is free and MIT. It runs on the ChatGPT Plus or Pro subscription you already have, shifting planning off metered Codex spend.

What to do by team size

Solo: free
Small team: free
Medium team: free, but security review the read-only workspace bridge first
Large team: free; most orgs will not approve a third-party bridge with live repo read access

Self-hosting ops:moderate

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Score

72/100 · B+

Adoption17/30

Maintenance25/25

Community5/20

License15/15

Analysis10/10

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License: MIT License

Use freely, including commercial. Just keep the license.

Commercial use: ✓ Yes

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