Anthropic earlier launched 6 months of free Claude subscription support for the open source software industry. Developers or core maintainers with more than 5,000 project stars, as well as developers and core maintainers of important open source projects, can receive a 6-month Claude Max 20X subscription for free.

Now OpenAI has also launched a similar program (Codex for Open Source) to help open source project developers discover and troubleshoot security vulnerabilities in their projects. Developers who meet the requirements can receive a free 6-month ChatGPT Pro subscription, which also includes the latest Codex Security-related functions.

This welfare plan includes the following contents:

Get a free 6-month ChatGPT Pro subscription valued at $1,200

Contains usage rights and related quotas for the OpenAI Codex programming development tool

You can use the newly launched Codex Security security features to find vulnerabilities

Through the Codex Open Source Fund, you can also earn API points for projects that use Codex for pull request reviews, maintenance automation, release workflows, and more

Ordinary projects can also apply for:

OpenAI does not have a hard limit on how many project stars or monthly NPM downloads the developer can submit. As long as the project operated or maintained by the developer is a widely used public project, he or she can submit an application. If the project is not widely used, but plays an important role in the ecosystem, you can also submit an application. Just attach a detailed description to the application to explain the importance of the project.

Interested developers can click here to submit an application: https://developers.openai.com/codex/community/codex-for-oss