OpenAI

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OpenAI Codex Computecaveatemailno cardDwrite-gated
OpenAI Files API — per-project file storage Storagecaveatany-phoneno cardphoneRper-object-cap
OpenAI Containers (Code Interpreter / Hosted Shell) Computepaidemail?card?Drequest-rate
ChatGPT consumer file storage / Library + Projects Storagefails: quotaany-phoneno cardphoneRper-object-cap

OpenAI Codex Compute

caveatemailno cardDwrite-gated

developers.openai.com/codex/codex-for-oss · inference API · compute/openai-codex · JSON · compare

Free tier	Quoted: 'Open-source maintainers can apply for API credits, six months of ChatGPT Pro with Codex, and Codex Security', and 'Over the past year, the Codex Open Source Fund ($1 million) has supported projects that need API credits'. The form adds 'API credits for coding, maintainer automation, release workflows, and core open source work'. unit none; metered on wall-clock; recurring-credit
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	email not published
Limits	write-gated A review decides entry and the maintainer must be a primary or core maintainer of a public repository with a public GitHub profile; the cash value of the API credit is not published. source A review decides entry and the maintainer must be a primary or core maintainer of a public repository with a public GitHub profile; the cash value of the API credit is not published.
Binding	write-gated A review decides entry and the maintainer must be a primary or core maintainer of a public repository with a public GitHub profile; the cash value of the API credit is not published.
Interface	rest inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	This is the only record denominated in inference rather than machines, and it is the cheapest way to run an agent over a repository: six months of a frontier coding subscription plus API credit covers the review loop that the other records would have to pay for in tokens.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	The page changed shape within the year: the fund began as USD 1 million of API credits and now leads with a six-month subscription, so the cash-equivalent value is not published and is left null. Codex Security is 'conditional' and reviewed case by case. The gate is maintainership of a project with traction, which is the same bar as every other vendor programme here, but the review is rolling and there is no cohort.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	developers.openai.com/codex/codex-for-oss	quoted the USD 1 million fund, the six months of ChatGPT Pro with Codex, the API credits, and 'If you're a core maintainer or run a widely used public project, apply'
2026-10-22	openai.com/form/codex-for-oss/	the live application form, which asks for a ChatGPT account email, a public GitHub username, a public repository URL and the applicant's maintainer role, and states reviews run on a rolling basis

More fields (1)

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$.retention.stated not-applicable
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OpenAI Files API — per-project file storage Storage

caveatany-phoneno cardphoneRper-object-cap

developers.openai.com/api/reference/resources/files/methods/ · LLM provider /v1/files · storage/openai-files-api-per-project-file-storage · JSON · compare

Free tier	2.5 TB per project; 512 MB per file; no organization-wide storage cap; orgs may create up to 2,000 projects by default unit objects; metered on stored-bytes
Price	free (raw file storage); vector-store storage $0.10/GB/day after 1 GB — avoid attaching to vector stores
Per-object cap	512 MB per file (512000000 bytes)
Retention	not stated
Egress	Not metered separately for upload/download of files; retrieval is a plain authenticated GET. No published per-GB transfer fee on the Files API surface.
Identity	any-phone any-phone
Limits	per-object-cap 512 MB per file source per-object-cap 512 MB. Upload rate 1,000 requests/min/authenticated user. Vector-store attachment has its own 2,000 files/min/org limit. `purpose` is the real gate — see reliability_note.
Binding	per-object-cap the per-object cap sets the shard size and therefore the object count; it bounds the total more tightly than any headline quota
Interface	rest REST `POST/GET/DELETE /v1/files`, `GET /v1/files/{file_id}/content`; OpenAI SDKs; works through OpenAI-compatible gateways
Tooling	openai-python, openai-node, curl; `purpose` field selects the lifecycle class
Composes with	2,000 projects/org x 2.5 TB = nominally 5 PB per org. Files are project-scoped and cannot be moved between projects, so a pooler must track (project -> file_id). Because `purpose=batch` and `purpose=vision` are both uploadable AND downloadable, they are the only two classes usable as actual storage.
Reliability	READ GATE IS PER-PURPOSE, NOT PER-ACCOUNT. An OpenAI staff-adjacent answer on the developer forum gives the directionality table: assistants up/NO down; user_data up/NO down; fine-tune up/NO down; evals up/NO down; batch up/YES down; vision up/YES down; _output down only. So `purpose=user_data` and `purpose=assistants` are write-only — uploading there is data loss. Storage is genuinely free (no per-GB-day charge for raw files; the $0.10/GB-day on the pricing page is vector store* storage, not Files API storage). Identity: ChatGPT signup is email-only, but generating the FIRST API key now mandates phone verification (SMS or WhatsApp, one number reusable 3x, rolled out to a listed set of countries). That is the binding constraint here.
Notes	2.5 TB per project; 512 MB per file; no organization-wide storage cap; orgs may create up to 2,000 projects by default
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[0].value` limit:per-object-cap 512.0 MB `$.price_per_tb_month` price-per-tb USD0.1 GB / day

Evidence (9)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	developers.openai.com/api/reference/resources/files/methods/	'Individual files can be up to 512 MB, and each project can store up to 2.5 TB of files in total. There is no organization-wide storage limit. Uploads ... rate-limited to 1,000 requests per minute'
2026-10-21	help.openai.com/en/articles/8724843-file-storage-quota-error	'OpenAI currently supports a file storage quota of 2.5 TB of files per project', updated 2 days ago
2026-10-21	help.openai.com/en/articles/9186755-managing-projects-in-the	'Organizations can create up to 2,000 projects by default'; 'Project resources (such as files, assistants, storage, or threads) are scoped to the project'
2026-10-21	developers.openai.com/api/reference/resources/files/	'Retrieve file content: get /files/{file_id}/content'
2026-10-21	community.openai.com/t/file-uploads-error-why-can-t-i-downlo	directionality table; 'Not allowed to download files of purpose: user_data'
2026-10-21	community.openai.com/t/not-allowed-to-download-files-of-purp	'You can't download files that you've uploaded to the assistants yourself'
2026-10-21	platform.openai.com/docs/pricing	'File search \| Storage \| $0.10 / GB per day (1 GB free)' — this is vector-store storage, NOT raw file storage
2026-10-21	help.openai.com/en/articles/8983040-what-does-phone-verifica	'Phone verification is now mandated on platform.openai.com for generating your initial API key'
2026-10-21	api.openai.com/v1/files	PROBE: curl -D - -> HTTP/1.1 401, Content-Length 616, real JSON error, x-openai-proxy-wasm; /v1/files/{id}/content also 401/616 — endpoint live, not a 0-byte 200

More fields (1)

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Unknown or withheld values (4)

$.free_tier.notes process
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OpenAI Containers (Code Interpreter / Hosted Shell) Compute

paidemail?card?Drequest-rate

developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing · container and VM sandbox · compute/openai-containers · JSON · compare

Free tier	no container tier: the API is priced per million tokens and per audio minute, from $0.10 an input MTok on the cheapest current model unit none; metered on none
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Egress	not stated
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Limits	request-rate per million input and output tokens, from $0.10 to $30.00 an input MTok on the current models source per-object-cap audio transcription bills per minute, from $0.0045 to $0.034 source not stated
Binding	request-rate
Interface	unknown
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	not stated
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Evidence rung	documented the API pricing page was read on 2026-10-22 and carries model and audio rates only. There is no container product on it, so the record's free-tier framing does not apply and the verdict moves to paid-only
Checked	2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-22

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-02	developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing	not published
2026-10-22	developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing	the API pricing page was read on 2026-10-22 and is a per-million-token model table plus per-minute audio rates: 'gpt-6-luna $0.10 / $0.50 per MTok', 'gpt-5.5-pro $30.00 / $180.00', 'gpt-transcribe $0.0045 / minute'. It prices tokens and minutes, not containers

More fields (13)

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ChatGPT consumer file storage / Library + Projects Storage

fails: quotaany-phoneno cardphoneRper-object-cap

help.openai.com/en/articles/8555545-file-uploads-faq · Consumer AI chat product · storage/chatgpt-consumer-file-storage-library-projects · JSON · compare

Free tier	25 GB shared upload storage per user, 100 GB per organization. 512 MB per file. Project file counts: Free 5, Go/Plus 25, Edu/Pro/Business/Enterprise 40. GPT knowledge: 20 files. 'Users can create an unlimited amount of projects.' unit objects; metered on stored-bytes
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	512 MB per file (512000000 bytes)
Retention	not stated
Egress	Files can be previewed and downloaded from the project sources list; no egress fee.
Identity	any-phone any-phone
Limits	request-rate 3 uploads/day source per-object-cap 512 MB per file source write-gated review, download, or delete it') which is the inverse of the API's purpose-based read source per-object-cap 512 MB; CSV/spreadsheets ~50 MB; images 20 MB. Upload rate: 80 files per 3 hours; free users 3 uploads/day. Retention not stated as a limit — Library persists.
Binding	per-object-cap the per-object cap sets the shard size and therefore the object count; it bounds the total more tightly than any headline quota
Interface	unknown Web/app UI. `GET /v1/files` with an API key does NOT expose ChatGPT Library files — the API and the consumer product are separate stores.
Tooling	None programmatic for the consumer store.
Composes with	Unlimited projects x 40 files x 512 MB = nominal 20 GB per project, but the 25 GB/user byte wall across all of it is the real cap. Nothing multiplies.
Reliability	25 GB/user is 20x below the brief's floor and the storage is explicitly 'shared upload storage' across the whole account, so projects do not stack. Notably better than the API for read-back ('open it from the project sources list to preview, download, or delete it') which is the inverse of the API's purpose-based read gate — but the byte wall makes it irrelevant.
Notes	25 GB shared upload storage per user, 100 GB per organization. 512 MB per file. Project file counts: Free 5, Go/Plus 25, Edu/Pro/Business/Enterprise 40. GPT knowledge: 20 files. 'Users can create an unlimited amount of projects.'
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[1].value` limit:per-object-cap 512.0 MB

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	help.openai.com/en/articles/8555545-file-uploads-faq	'Shared upload storage is capped at 25 GB per user and 100 GB per organization'; 'You can upload up to 80 files every 3 hours. Free users are limited to 3 file uploads per day.'; project file caps by plan
2026-10-21	help.openai.com/en/articles/10169521-chatgpt-projects	'After a file is added to a project, you can open it from the project sources list to preview, download, or delete it'; 'Users can create an unlimited amount of projects.'
2026-10-21	help.openai.com/en/articles/8555545-file-uploads-faq	'All files uploaded to a GPT or a ChatGPT conversation have a hard limit of 512MB per file'

More fields (1)

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