AI Hacker News 3h ago 2 min read
OpenAI's current Codex rate card now maps credit usage to input, cached-input, and output tokens instead of relying only on rough per-message estimates. The April 5, 2026 Hacker News thread focused on how that gives teams clearer cost visibility, while also leaving a split world where some plans use the new token-based card and others remain on the legacy message-based card until migration.