GPT-5.3 Codex

gpt-5.3-codex

GPT-5.3-Codex is OpenAI’s agentic coding model for Codex and similar development environments. It combines frontier software engineering performance with broader reasoning and professional knowledge, supports configurable reasoning effort, and is listed with a 400K context window and 128K max output tokens. OpenAI positions it as moving Codex beyond writing and reviewing code toward using computers, running terminal workflows, iterating on web apps, and handling real-world engineering tasks over long horizons.

Total Context

400Ktokens

Max Output

128Ktokens

Released

Feb 5, 2026

Modalities

GPT-5.3 Codex Price

Input PriceOutput PriceCache Read
$1.75/M$14/M$0.175/M

GPT-5.3 Codex API

openaiPOST /v1/chat/completions

GPT-5.3 Codex Benchmark

GPT-5.3 Codex (xhigh)

44.3

/100

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis broad capability aggregate

Index score

53.1

/100

Artificial Analysis Coding Index

Artificial Analysis software task aggregate

Index score

Knowledge & Reasoning

GPQA

Advanced science problem solving

91.5%

HLE

Broad expert-level exam set

39.9%

Coding & Engineering

SciCode

Scientific coding challenges

53.2%

Terminal-Bench Hard

Hard terminal task execution

53.0%

Instruction Following & Agent Tasks

IFBench

Prompt constraint adherence

75.4%

AA-LCR

Long-context reasoning

74%

τ²-Bench

Agent workflow tasks

86.0%

Metrics sourced from Artificial Analysis

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GPT-5.3 Codex FAQ

GPT-5.3 Codex: capabilities, use cases, limits, and TokenHub guidance.

What role does GPT-5.3 Codex play?+

GPT-5.3 Codex is a OpenAI model for long-running agentic coding and repository work.

What should I try first with GPT-5.3 Codex?+

Best for repository-scale development, debugging and refactoring and research and synthesis, especially when software-engineering quality is the priority.

Why choose GPT-5.3 Codex?+

Key strength: agentic coding optimized for long-running research and execution.

What tradeoff comes with GPT-5.3 Codex?+

Its coding specialization is less suitable for broad general conversation or multimodal analysis. For broad general or multimodal work is needed, consider GPT-5.5.

How should I start in TokenHub?+

Use the exact ID shown by TokenHub; follow your account docs and verify current features.