Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug I am getting charged 30 cents for a worse version of codex, somehow in that same model line the higher-end one is like a third of the price??? wtf man Steps to Reproduce work with codex Screenshots / Screen Recordings [Scre…

hi @tejasPhaveri , thanks for the report. Cursor shows token usage exactly as returned by the AI provider for each request. You can open Dashboard → Usage to inspect that specific request in detail, including whether caching was applied. The Billing & Invoices page only shows an aggregated summary.…

[Screenshot 2026-01-09 at 9.58.28 PM] usage-events-2026-01-10.csv (12.8 KB) hope this helps

Thank you yes that was helpful. The one non-max request was indeed 100% input tokens as there was no follow up. Also it had all 232k tokens as full input context. Therefore the amount charged should be correct. Do you recall if you had attached some files/logs/mcps/… as the total tokens are a lot.

nope, it was just a long convo, so ok, if its a long convo and i change models in between i get charged 30 cents per request. Is that correct? req id: 65bb419c-1919-4fc3-a003-9b21be666c4d

It is not advisable to change AI models within an existing chat because on any model change we need to send the full thread to AI provider for tokenization and processing. in such an case there would not be a cache yet available and therefore full context would be processed at input cost.

gotcha, makes sense, curious tho, how does the subagents feature in the nightly build work? i see it goes off and gets context for the main chat, does that also have this input token cost thing?

How does this work with starting the chat with composer, and then switching to plan mode, and building the plan or implementing it with codex?

Subagents have their own ‘requests’. Any AI usage consumes tokens. Switching from plan with one model and then build with another does the same sending of chat as new input but you have options Plan is usually shorter and cheaper than implementation loops. Switching model not as critical for cost…

ah gotcha, sounds good, and nah was curious on how that worked, thanks

Codex models pricing - 30 cents per request

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tejasPhaveri (Tejas Haveri) January 10, 2026, 2:50am 2

is this prompt caching or somth? because come on man wtf is this

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Codex models pricing - 30 cents per request

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