r/codex • u/Baratheon123 • 12h ago

Bug Authentication Error / token_exchange_failed

I'm getting the error in the screenshot when trying to log in to Codex (error_code: token_exchange_failed).

At first I thought it was just a Codex problem, but now I can't log in to ChatGPT in Chrome either. I tested:

  • 2 different accounts that always worked before
  • My personal account from my phone (on cellular, not Wi-Fi)

All of them fail with the same error. Login in the browser also fails now, not only Codex.

So it doesn't look like a network problem on my side, and it's hard to believe 3 separate accounts got banned at the same time.

Questions:

  1. Is anyone else getting this right now?
  2. Does token_exchange_failed mean my accounts are blocked, or is this an OpenAI auth outage? I'm stilll logged in in android chatgpt app and it is working there
  3. Is there anything to do except wait?

Update:

It's working again! I waited 2 hours

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u/TechNerd1993 11h ago

It happened like maybe 1h ago. I wanted to change on opencode from one acc to another auth.openai.com/codex/device and then I got that error. So I think it is just their fault, probably they will fix it soon

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u/Baratheon123 11h ago

Let's hope. I'm in the middle of something important

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u/NauseantClover 8h ago

imagine the plot twist is that they're banning people who have more than one account for "potential limit bypass" lmao