🤖OpenAI Merges ChatGPT and Work Tabs Starting December, Codex Shares Allowance

Your ChatGPT and Codex limits are about to share one pool

OpenAI is merging the Chat and Work tabs into one ChatGPT experience starting in December. Work's agentic features move into the main app, and ChatGPT and Codex start drawing from the same token allowance. The catch? Heavy users could feel it first. If you bounce between asking ChatGPT questions and having it actually build things, this is for you. The goal is to go from exploring an idea to having ChatGPT carry it through in one place. You can bring in your files and plugins and ask it to build a website or put together a presentation. Codex stays a separate experience inside the desktop app, so your coding flow doesn't get rearranged. But your Codex and chat usage now come out of the same bucket, so a long refactor session can eat into your general chat budget. The details that matter: instant chat doesn't count against the allowance at all. Usage gets measured in tokens, and the burn rate depends on which model you pick and what you ask it to do. OpenAI says most customers won't be affected and doesn't expect current workflows to break. Some users may still wait for resets more than usual. The merged experience will go to select users for feedback before wider rollout.