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Alifatiskyesterday at 9:26 PM6 repliesview on HN

Whats crazier is that Codex is free. I thought I had to pay to even try it out but nope, you can use the desktop app or cli for free, its apparently included in the free plan. You just have to sign in to your ChatGPT account.

Of course I am aware that the caveat here is that all my interaction is part of training, but I’m fine with that. Even Qwen Cli discontinued the free plan.


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orionsbelttoday at 1:31 AM

First hit is free… got to get you hooked.

beeringtoday at 1:51 AM

Can’t you just turn off training on your data in the settings?

firesteelraintoday at 1:12 AM

How much better is it than Claude? I have both but Claude sucks up so many tokens.

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thorumyesterday at 11:30 PM

I was really unimpressed by the free Codex (for nodejs/react dev). I think it must be using a less powerful model or they’re limiting it in some other way.

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Rover222yesterday at 9:46 PM

I think it's free for about 2 useful requests and then you have to upgrade or wait?

throwaway613746yesterday at 9:40 PM

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