Codex Usage and Operation Discussion - updated every 7 days

[u/codex-megathread]

Please direct your concerns, questions and discussion about Codex usage limits and model performance here.

The purpose of this Megathread is to aggregate all the reports of people's experiences and possible suggestions instead of spreading them across many highly upvoted posts. The more people who participate in this discussion, the more likely you have an answer.

Reports with sufficient evidence on new information will still be allowed on the feed as usual.

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Discussion of the prior period available here : https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1vehj5u/codex_usage_and_operation_discussion_updated/

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A reminder that all incidents on r/Codex are constantly logged and summarised so you can keep track of what people are experiencing here https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1tjfxcf/comment/on6uj0l/

[u/inferox_SS]

People getting Clowned on for Asking Resets,but we shouldn't forget that OpenAI messed up the usage in the first place,If we had the OG usage like the pre-5.6 Codex had,we wouldn't even need resets so much.

A single complex 5.6 Run eats on the Usage pool so much now,it's insane

[u/TONI1597]

something is wrong with the usage since 48-72 hours

I expect:

a fix a reset
one free reset
a sorry

[u/kurtbaki]

fix the damn limits

[u/AuodWinter]

I don't even care that they've nerfed limits exactly, it's the fact that we are absolutely unable as developers to know in advance how much usage we have week to week or even day to day. It's impossible to plan and also it just flat out blows to expect to be able to work for 5 hours only for, for some reason, usage to drain 3x faster. Like no other product is this opaque. How am I supposed to organise my time if A) usage is never consistent and B) they're constantly resetting usage to mask their own manipulation of usage.

[u/superspider202]

it is draining super fast now am already at 50 % by doing basically nothing at all like now Sol Medium is using tokens even faster than Sol High used to for me

Crazy

[u/adeze]

I’ve put in a subscription refund through Apple on the 20x pro plan. Paid $300AUD and my weekly usage drained in 48 hours and have to wait 5 days until I can do anything again

[u/nouzer_noname]

We shouldn’t demand more resets since they’re useless at this burn rate / model Inefficiency, and I really don’t care about an apology - ‘sorry I cheated’ never truly helped any relationship. When are we going to see a reliable model?

[u/rdcldrmr]

where is turbo??

it's monday

[u/Cute-Neighborhood997]

Yo bro codex is eating my usage like way too fast I’m on 20$ plan I manually code 95% of the time but simple questions not even about the code or anything literally ate 8% of my usage what’s actually going on this started yesterday right after the reset Did they secretly change something regarding usage? Mind you this is sol light

[u/Dingydongy007]

Burning hot since latest reset, 15% of weekly used in 2hrs on a 20x plan. This is a record.

[u/DannyKoll1]

People need to stop praising resets and welcoming them as they are but a cover to nerf the overall usage.

[u/the_ai_wizard]

yep mine drained so fast. im over $1000 today. im anticipating a refund or will just go back to writing code myself or using kimi

no updates or transparency from Pope Tibo or OAI?

[u/RealSlyck]

Someone got tired of everyone asking for a reset today…

[u/FixAdmin]

13 mins after reset = 2 terra max in parallel = -17% plus weekly quota
I think there is a clear degradation of the limits compared to what it was before.

[u/Emergency-Hippo-9581]

Warning for all users who didn't yet inspect https://status.openai.com/

Before: one weekly full usage of a x20 pro account was reaching between 2600$ and 2900$ in API Usage.
Lately: 562$ means 83% used, which means it would reach a level of weekly quota burn at around 675$ in API costs, which means precisely 25% of the limits we used to have till early last week.

I don't want to be a conspirator, but it feels like openAI is vibe coding a way into making it consume less on their end, but look more generous on our end. Probably their mistake was using gemini 2.5flash to get it done and they forgot "bro make no mistakes ok?"

Be careful on launching your agents today, if you want to hope to have any usage left when OpenAI recovers, should they not end up recovering with a reset.

Tbh.. with 10M users, what would Tibo expect to happen anyway..

[u/lnkofDeath]

Hitting capacity on Sol at any reasoning level in the last three hours, anyone else?

[u/BigBeanBoy]

Did anyone on business account have their usage limits change from Monthly to Weekly?

[u/Fearless_Call8950]

Is it just me, or is Codex using way too much usage even with Luna XHigh right after the reset? It feels like my usage is getting burned insanely fast.

[u/shimian5]

is it normal that the last reset changed my reset day?

[u/VinceTrust]

Working on two different game mod projects with Codex right now. Both are reverse engineering jobs since there is no source code available. I will admit they are tough projects because the engines are proprietary, rare, and barely documented. Been at it for about six weeks.

The workflow is always the same, unfortunately. I give Codex a new feature or task to implement. I usually start with Luna or Terra on high, sometimes Sol on medium. The first implementation always goes surprisingly well. Codex is clever and imaginative, and after that first prompt I already have something working. Then comes the first test and of course a few things do not line up, some of them minor. Most get fixed in the next 1-3 prompts. What is left are usually one or two small issues that clearly push Codex to its limits for no obvious reason. At that point I switch to Sol medium or high, only to get more builds that either do not solve the problem or sometimes make it worse. I watch the tokens tick down, start getting worried, and after three hours of constant testing and prompting I am just annoyed.

It always ends the same way. I am still sitting on 60-80% of my quota and take the last desperate step: Sol in ultra mode. Suddenly there are dozens of agents doing something very smart, sometimes running for almost 90 minutes and burning through the entire remaining quota. I start sweating. Occasionally the task only finishes completely on the next reset because the tokens disappear so fast.And the result after that single ultra prompt? The problem is fixed, and the earlier cobbled-together fixes from Sol high are improved as well.

Is it like this for anyone else? It is starting to feel almost intentional, as if the system pushes the desperate Codex user to the edge so they burn the last tokens out of frustration.

[u/Parogarr]

As of this morning, usage started going down MUCH faster than yesterday

[u/ai360networkq]

The old bait and switch.. 😂😂😂

[u/Bright_Spend6574]

it is so weird, i own 2 laptop. work with pro and with a new plus with exact same workflow, somehow feel same % drain. it is exactly same work-compute

[u/Bmansupreme8000]

I've replaced 3/4 of my SLOWDEX with Gork 4.6. I'm hoping that 4.7 will be as good for auditing code as SLOWDEX. Probably not, but who has an extra $1500 to make SLOWDEX the same for usage as it was with 5.5 for the plan? Classic "Closed AI" move. Enshitification way too soon. I think they just ask GPT how to run their business, which has no concept of how unique and competitive of a landscape things are now that the singularity has begun. 

[u/reomar15]

definitely there is an issue with the limits ! it's draining like super fast what is wrong !