OpenAI: GPT-5.1-Codex-Max

OpenAI: GPT-5.1-Codex-Max

openai · Released Dec 4, 2025
Intelligence #500 / 741
28.4 our score
Speed
Not reported
Input Price #575 / 743
$1.25 per 1M tokens
Output Price #628 / 743
$10.00 per 1M tokens
Context #176 / 743
400,000 tokens

Analysis Summary

OpenAI's GPT-5.1-Codex-Max is a coding-focused multimodal model with a 400,000-token context window, vision, tool use, and function calling. These capabilities are well matched to large repositories, visual development tasks, and API-connected engineering workflows. However, this specific variant has no supplied benchmark evidence, so its coding reliability and agentic performance cannot be established from the dataset.

The product profile makes it a candidate for codebase analysis, implementation assistance, test generation, and supervised engineering agents. Its output price is high, which argues against routine bulk generation and favours high-value tasks where context and depth matter. Run a controlled pilot with repository-level evaluations before committing it to client delivery. It is a promising specialist option, not a proven default.

Assessed August 9, 2026

Editorial notes

GPT-5.1-Codex-Max is positioned for coding with a 400K context window, vision, tools, and function calling. No benchmark results are supplied for this variant, while its output price is high, so adoption should begin with targeted engineering pilots.

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DFO Verdict

GPT-5.1-Codex-Max is positioned for coding with a 400K context window, vision, tools, and function calling. No benchmark results are supplied for this variant, while its output price is high, so adoption should begin with targeted engineering pilots.

#500 of 741 overall Down 21 this week

How OpenAI: GPT-5.1-Codex-Max compares

Its 400K-token context window is larger than 76% of the models we list. At $1.25 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 23% of comparable models.

Position in the field
Intelligence: smarter than 33% of models #500
Price: cheaper than 23% of models #575
Context: larger than 76% of models #176
worst in fieldmedianbest in field
Price vs frontier peers · $ per 1M tokens
OpenAI: GPT-5.1-Codex-Max $1.25 in $10.00 out
OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol $2.00 in $10.00 out
Claude Opus 5 $5.00 in $25.00 out
SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6 $2.00 in $6.00 out

Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.

Context window vs peers · tokens
OpenAI: GPT-5.1-Codex-Max 400K

1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.

Intelligence0Technical0Value6.5Content4.8
Performance profile

Strongest on value. The pulled-in technical corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.

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Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $1.25 $0.001250
Output $10.00 $0.010000

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A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.

3,000
One request is one message, email, draft or automation call.
1,200 tokens

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About OpenAI: GPT-5.1-Codex-Max

GPT-5.1-Codex-Max is OpenAI’s latest agentic coding model, designed for long-running, high-context software development tasks. It is based on an updated version of the 5.1 reasoning stack and trained on agentic..

Frequently asked questions about OpenAI: GPT-5.1-Codex-Max

How much does OpenAI: GPT-5.1-Codex-Max cost?

OpenAI: GPT-5.1-Codex-Max costs $1.25 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens.

What is the context window of OpenAI: GPT-5.1-Codex-Max?

OpenAI: GPT-5.1-Codex-Max has a context window of 400,000 tokens (400K).

What can OpenAI: GPT-5.1-Codex-Max do?

OpenAI: GPT-5.1-Codex-Max supports image/vision input, tool use, and function calling.

Who created OpenAI: GPT-5.1-Codex-Max?

OpenAI: GPT-5.1-Codex-Max is developed by OpenAI and was released on December 4, 2025.

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