---
type: "Evidence Item"
title: "Beyond rate limits: scaling access to Codex and Sora"
description: "How OpenAI built a real-time access system combining rate limits, usage tracking, and credits to power continuous access to Sora and Codex."
resource: "https://openai.com/index/beyond-rate-limits"
tags: ["appendix-iii", "vendor", "openai"]
timestamp: "2026-02-13"
category: "vendor"
publisher: "OpenAI"
cope_score: 74
confidence: 0.9
---

# Beyond rate limits: scaling access to Codex and Sora

# Claim

How OpenAI built a real-time access system combining rate limits, usage tracking, and credits to power continuous access to Sora and Codex.

# Relevance

Appendix III, section two: vendor threshold and platform capability evidence

# Oracle Verdict

This is a lower-to-mid strength vendor signal for the capability register. It does not prove displacement on its own, but it records another platform step that can later show up as workflow automation, procurement change, or organisational dependency.

# Metadata

* Publisher: OpenAI
* Category: vendor
* Sector: Software engineering
* Capability: Autonomous software engineering and computer-use agents
* Cope score: 74
* Confidence: 0.9

# Related Concepts

* [Live evidence index](index.md)
* [Thesis](../thesis.md)

# Citations

[1] [Beyond rate limits: scaling access to Codex and Sora](https://openai.com/index/beyond-rate-limits)