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Codex is OpenAI's coding agent, available as a command-line tool, an IDE extension, a cloud agent that works on your repository in the background and a panel inside the ChatGPT desktop apps. It is included in ChatGPT subscriptions, and usage is metered in messages per five-hour window with weekly caps on cheaper plans. OpenAI publishes nothing on prompt language for Codex. In practice the underlying models handle Arabic well, but the terminal interface does not: a public bug open since July 2026 describes Arabic rendered as separated, reordered characters on Windows, and OpenAI support told users asking for right-to-left support in the apps in June and July 2026 that it could not promise a timeline. Saudi Arabia is on OpenAI's supported-countries list and the company runs an Arabic-language website. Pricing in October 2026: Free with limited Codex access; Go $8 a month in the United States, varying by market; Plus $20; Pro from $100; Business $25 a seat monthly.

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Codex is the agent most Arabic readers already have access to through a ChatGPT subscription, and the only one whose Arabic terminal bug and official non-answer on right-to-left support are both on the public record. Our listing gives the dates so you can check whether anything has changed.

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