diff --git a/open-sse/executors/codex/tools.ts b/open-sse/executors/codex/tools.ts
index 12cb840f2c..277af81eb9 100644
--- a/open-sse/executors/codex/tools.ts
+++ b/open-sse/executors/codex/tools.ts
@@ -26,7 +26,14 @@ export const CODEX_HOSTED_TOOL_TYPES: ReadonlySet<string> = new Set([
 // dropped for free-plan accounts (mirrors CLIProxyAPI's isCodexFreePlanAuth).
 export function isCodexFreePlan(providerSpecificData: unknown): boolean {
   if (!providerSpecificData || typeof providerSpecificData !== "object") return false;
-  const plan = (providerSpecificData as { workspacePlanType?: unknown }).workspacePlanType;
+  const data = providerSpecificData as {
+    workspacePlanType?: unknown;
+    chatgptPlanType?: unknown;
+  };
+  const plan =
+    typeof data.workspacePlanType === "string"
+      ? data.workspacePlanType
+      : data.chatgptPlanType;
   return typeof plan === "string" && plan.trim().toLowerCase() === "free";
 }
 
diff --git a/open-sse/handlers/imageGeneration.ts b/open-sse/handlers/imageGeneration.ts
index 25b7a3482f..2eb758fd41 100644
--- a/open-sse/handlers/imageGeneration.ts
+++ b/open-sse/handlers/imageGeneration.ts
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import { getAntigravityEnvelopeUserAgent } from "../services/antigravityIdentity
 import { kieExecutor } from "../executors/kie.ts";
 import { mapImageSize } from "../translator/image/sizeMapper.ts";
 import { getCodexClientVersion, getCodexUserAgent } from "../config/codexClient.ts";
+import { isCodexFreePlan } from "../executors/codex/tools.ts";
 import { saveCallLog } from "@/lib/usageDb";
 import { sleep } from "../utils/sleep.ts";
 import {
@@ -2480,6 +2481,18 @@ async function handleCodexImageGeneration({
     });
   }
 
+  if (isCodexFreePlan(credentials?.providerSpecificData)) {
+    return saveImageErrorResult({
+      provider,
+      model,
+      status: 403,
+      startTime,
+      error: "Codex image_generation is unavailable on free-plan accounts",
+      path: logPath,
+      retryable: true,
+    });
+  }
+
   const workspaceId =
     credentials?.providerSpecificData &&
     typeof credentials.providerSpecificData === "object" &&
diff --git a/tests/unit/codex-free-plan-image-generation.test.ts b/tests/unit/codex-free-plan-image-generation.test.ts
index 4215da6ac8..fea3afcf59 100644
--- a/tests/unit/codex-free-plan-image-generation.test.ts
+++ b/tests/unit/codex-free-plan-image-generation.test.ts
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ const { normalizeCodexTools, isCodexFreePlan } = await import("../../open-sse/ex
 test("isCodexFreePlan detects workspacePlanType === 'free' (case-insensitive)", () => {
   assert.equal(isCodexFreePlan({ workspacePlanType: "free" }), true);
   assert.equal(isCodexFreePlan({ workspacePlanType: "FREE" }), true);
+  assert.equal(isCodexFreePlan({ chatgptPlanType: "free" }), true);
+  assert.equal(isCodexFreePlan({ chatgptPlanType: "FREE" }), true);
+  assert.equal(isCodexFreePlan({ workspacePlanType: "team", chatgptPlanType: "free" }), false);
   assert.equal(isCodexFreePlan({ workspacePlanType: "team" }), false);
   assert.equal(isCodexFreePlan({ workspacePlanType: "" }), false);
   assert.equal(isCodexFreePlan({}), false);
diff --git a/tests/unit/image-generation-handler.test.ts b/tests/unit/image-generation-handler.test.ts
index 0caa469564..1d7a18a3e3 100644
--- a/tests/unit/image-generation-handler.test.ts
+++ b/tests/unit/image-generation-handler.test.ts
@@ -2028,6 +2028,32 @@ test("handleImageGeneration (codex) forwards size and maps GPT-Image quality to
   }
 });
 
+test("handleImageGeneration (codex) skips imported free-plan accounts and marks them retryable", async () => {
+  const originalFetch = globalThis.fetch;
+  let fetchCalls = 0;
+  globalThis.fetch = async () => {
+    fetchCalls += 1;
+    throw new Error("free-plan image request should not reach upstream");
+  };
+
+  try {
+    const result = await handleImageGeneration({
+      body: { model: "codex/gpt-5.6-terra", prompt: "kitten" },
+      credentials: {
+        accessToken: "codex-token",
+        providerSpecificData: { chatgptPlanType: "free" },
+      },
+      log: null,
+    });
+    assert.equal(result.success, false);
+    assert.equal(result.status, 403);
+    assert.equal(result.retryable, true);
+    assert.equal(fetchCalls, 0);
+  } finally {
+    globalThis.fetch = originalFetch;
+  }
+});
+
 // #8307 — some ChatGPT accounts can run Codex but lack entitlement for the specific
 // requested image model, and the upstream 400 for that exact case is retryable on a
 // sibling account: executeImageWithCredentialFallback (route.ts) already retries on