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GPT-5.3-Codex openai

Closed weights API only frontier listed on OpenRouter 2026-02-24 (243d ago) · source Last verified 2026-10-25 06:51 UTC Docs ↗ OpenRouter ↗

Release timeline

Stages observed by the nightly radar: announced → API only → weights public → served by third parties. Each entry carries the source it was seen at.

  1. 2026-02-24 · API only source
    seeded from the earliest dated observation when first seen · observed 2026-10-07 20:20 UTC

Description

GPT-5.3-Codex is OpenAI’s most advanced agentic coding model, combining the frontier software engineering performance of GPT-5.2-Codex with the broader reasoning and professional knowledge capabilities of GPT-5.2. It achieves state-of-the-art results...

via OpenRouter listing · observed 2026-10-24 21:26 UTC. The listing text is the provider's own description, not an assessment.

Where to run 2 providers · 3 endpoints

Hosted endpoints observed for GPT-5.3-Codex, sorted by input price (USD per million tokens). Each row names its observer and date; prices change daily, so check the source before quoting. Cheapest observed input price: $1.75/M.

ProviderModel refContextQuant$/M in$/M outtok/sTTFTToolsStatusObserved
Azure
openrouter
openai/gpt-5.3-codex 391K unknown $1.75 $14.00 — — yes live 2026-10-24
OpenAI
openrouter
openai/gpt-5.3-codex 391K unknown $1.75 $14.00 — — yes live 2026-10-24
OpenAI
openrouter
openai/gpt-5.3-codex 391K unknown $3.50 $28.00 — — yes live 2026-10-24

No third-party providers observed beyond the lab's own endpoints. Cache-read price $0.17/M (source, observed 2026-10-24).

Facts

Context length400,000 tokens (391K) · OpenRouter listing
Modalitiestext + image + file → text
Max completion tokens128,000
Supported parametersinclude_reasoning, max_completion_tokens, max_tokens, reasoning, reasoning_effort, response_format, seed, structured_outputs, tool_choice, tools, verbosity
OpennessClosed weights · closed lab
StageAPI only
Confidencemedium
Pricing (USD per M tokens) in $1.75 · out $14.00 · cache read $0.17
OpenRouter list price (cheapest live endpoint) · source · observed 2026-10-24 21:26 UTC

Open alternatives 5

Nearest open-weights models by modality, context and price on this watch list. Not a quality ranking.

ModelOrgParamsContext$/M inLicenseWhy it is here
Qwen3.5-4B Qwen 4.66B 256K — apache-2.0 vision input
Kimi-K2.6 moonshotai 1.03T 256K $0.45 other cheaper input price ($0.44935/M vs $1.75/M), vision input
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B Qwen 403B 256K $0.39 apache-2.0 cheaper input price ($0.39/M vs $1.75/M), vision input
Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct Qwen 4.44B 256K — apache-2.0 vision input
Kimi-K2.5 moonshotai 1.03T 256K $0.45 other cheaper input price ($0.45/M vs $1.75/M), vision input

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Radar run: 2026-10-25 06:51 UTC · Last verified 2026-10-25 06:51 UTC