OpenAI is offering a support package aimed at open source maintainers, bundling six months of ChatGPT Pro with Codex, Codex Security, and API credits. It sits alongside other developer programmes that try to reduce the time and cost of keeping popular repositories healthy, competing with sponsorships and cloud credit schemes by focusing on day to day coding help and automated review.
Who is this for?
If you maintain an active open source project and spend a lot of time triaging issues, reviewing pull requests, or chasing security fixes, this is most relevant. ChatGPT Pro with Codex can help with drafting changes, explaining unfamiliar code paths, and speeding up refactors, while API credits are useful if you run CI checks, bots, or tooling that calls the OpenAI API. Codex Security is geared towards spotting risky patterns and helping you prioritise fixes.
- Six months of ChatGPT Pro access with Codex features for coding workflows
- Codex Security access for security focused analysis and remediation guidance
- API credits for maintainers building or operating automation around their projects