OpenAI has been recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise AI Coding Agents. This acknowledgment highlights OpenAI’s progress in supporting enterprise-scale deployments of Codex, which is used by more than 4 million people each week and by companies such as Cisco, Datadog, Dell Technologies, and NVIDIA. Since Gartner’s evaluation earlier this year, OpenAI has significantly improved Codex with the introduction of GPT-5.5, stronger tool use, faster performance, and deeper support for enterprise software development workflows. According to OpenAI, the recognition reflects the growing adoption of Codex as enterprises seek to deploy agentic systems at scale. Developers are moving beyond autocomplete to delegating complex tasks to Codex, which can understand large codebases, use tools, make changes, run tests, and prepare work for human review. For enterprises, the opportunity lies in speed with control, helping teams build faster while maintaining governance, security, and auditability. Gartner highlighted Codex’s strengths in agentic software development, enterprise governance, sandboxing, and flexible deployment options. Codex’s broad developer surface, including the Codex app, IDE extensions, CLI, SDKs, and cloud-based orchestration, was also noted. Enterprise controls such as approval gates, RBAC, customizable policies, OS-level sandboxing, and auditable workspace governance were emphasized. OpenAI believes these advantages helped make it the right partner for Cisco, which used Codex to develop the majority of its AI Defense security platform, shortening delivery time from several quarters to weeks. *Source: [openai](https://openai.com/index/gartner-2026-agentic-coding-leader/)*