Run Codex on an always-on developer pod
A cloud computer of your own, on your own private network. Codex keeps working with your laptop shut, and you pick its sessions up from your laptop or your phone.
Or let Codex do it: paste this into it.
Get me an Everpod developer pod and walk me through setting it up, following https://everpod.ai/docs/api#developer-podCodex gets a computer of its own.
Not a laptop you have to leave open: a whole Ubuntu machine you administer, always on, set up and secured before you log in.
Your repos, your installs and your files stay where you left them, for ever.
Tick Claude Code too, and both come installed. Ubuntu, with you as its administrator. Docker, git, Node, Python, Chrome and tmux are there, and you install anything else as you would on a laptop.
Three ways to keep Codex running.
No laptop left open, no server to secure. Your pod arrives set up, and stays on.
OpenAI’s hosted tasks, or a computer of your own
OpenAI’s hosted tasks
A developer pod
A developer pod is one machine that stays yours: what you installed, the servers you left running, Docker and your work in progress are where you left them tomorrow.
OpenAI’s documentation on remote access advises: “add an always-on computer or SSH host when you need continuous access.” A developer pod is that SSH host, and it never sleeps. The ChatGPT desktop app on a Mac or PC can open projects on it too.
Codex runs here as it does on your laptop.
Sign in with ChatGPT, with no browser on the machine
- ✓Approve the one-time code in any browser, on your laptop or your phone
- ✓It needs one switch on ChatGPT’s side: device code sign-in, under Settings, Security and login, or the workspace permission an admin turns on
- ✓An OpenAI API key works too, billed by use
alex@atlas:~$ codex login --device-auth Welcome to Codex [v0.160.0] OpenAI's command-line coding agent Follow these steps to sign in with ChatGPT using device code authorization: 1. Open this link in your browser and sign in to your account https://auth.openai.com/codex/device 2. Enter this one-time code (expires in 15 minutes) INHF-PYASB
Its sandbox works from the first command
- ✓The commands Codex chooses write only to your project’s folder
- ✓On a fresh Ubuntu 24.04 server the sandbox fails until bubblewrap may create user namespaces; a developer pod comes with that set
alex@atlas:~/app$ codex sandbox -c sandbox_mode=workspace-write -- touch notes.txt /etc/hello touch: cannot touch '/etc/hello': Read-only file system
Which ChatGPT plans include it
- ✓Codex in the terminal comes with ChatGPT Plus and the plans above it
- ✓Free and Go have it only in the desktop app
All you do is name your machine.
We build it, install Codex and secure it. About 10 minutes later, you log in.
Name it and choose your agents
Name the machine, choose your username on it, and tick the agents you want installed.
Confirm your email and pay
$24 a month, cancel anytime. We start building the moment your payment goes through.
Join your network and log in
About 10 minutes later it is built, and we email you. Join it to your Tailscale network from its page, switch off its key expiry, and log in.
Private by default
Your pod arrives on your own private network, closed to the internet, and yours alone.
On your private network only
Reached only from your own devices, over Tailscale. No open ports and no public SSH: a server your agent starts is reachable from your devices and from nowhere else.
Yours alone
A whole private computer, one customer per machine. Nothing on it is shared with other customers.
Only you have a login
Once you have finished connecting the machine, which ends with your first login, we remove the access we used to set it up. From then on Everpod has no login on it and no key.
Backed up every day
The whole disk is backed up every day, and the last seven days are kept. We restore one when you ask.
Security updates install themselves
The machine is yours to administer, and its security updates install on their own.
Deletion is permanent
When you cancel, the machine runs to the end of the paid month, is switched off, and is permanently deleted 7 days later, backups included.
You don’t do any of this. Your pod arrives on your private network, closed to the internet.
What your developer pod costs.
Before you decide.
Is model usage included?
Who else can log in to it?
Can I steer it from the ChatGPT app on my phone?
Does it work with a ChatGPT Business workspace?
Can I run Claude Code on it too?
What are its specs?
What happens if I cancel?
Codex, on a computer that stays on.
$24/mo, cancel anytime · 4 vCPU, 8 GB, 80 GB