Developer Analysis Suggests Codex Subscription May Be Implicitly Subsidized by API Revenue

Developer Josh Purtell argued that Codex subscriptions may be implicitly subsidized by API revenue, while criticizing a related analysis for directly comparing token counts across Anthropic and OpenAI models despite Anthropic's less efficient tokenizer.

2026-10-06 ~ 2026-10-06 · 2 related posts

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• Comparing Anthropic vs OpenAI token counts is flawed: tokenizer efficiency differs — JoshPurtell · 2026-10-06