The new speed feature for Codex . What is your experience?
OpenAI Developer Community
March 21, 2026
Apologies for the sidestep, but if you want something really fast and can handle less thinking and slightly less accuracy, try:
GPT- 5.3-Codex-Spark Research Preview with 1000 Tokens per Second Codex
An ultra-fast model for real-time coding rolling out today to ChatGPT Pro users in the Codex app, CLI, and IDE extension. From the announcement: Codex-Spark marks the first milestone in our partnership with Cerebras, which we announced in January. Codex-Spark is optimized to feel near-instant when served on ultra-low latency hardware—delivering more than 1000 tokens per second while remaining highly capable for real-world coding tasks. [SWE-Bench Pro-1] At launch, Codex-Spark has a 128k…
(if you have access)
Because it is very very quick.
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