u/perecastor

From mobile, I can send Codex instructions to multiple connected computers and switch between hosts. On Windows desktop, the app can be a host, but cannot control other machines.

It would be very useful to manage multiple Codex computers directly from the Windows client.

I’ve seen a few comments here saying that using Codex on Windows costs more credits because PowerShell commands are longer.

I’m not totally clear on how credits are calculated. Is it based on input tokens, output tokens, or both?

I understand that PowerShell commands are often more verbose. For example, ls versus Get-ChildItem. But I would assume most of the token usage comes from the code/context sent to the model, plus the model’s response, rather than the command-line syntax itself.

So my intuition is that the difference should be negligible overall.

Am I missing something here, or are people mostly optimizing for something that does not matter much in practice?