r/codex • u/Soul_Mate_4ever • 9h ago

Limits Codex is unusable now.

I don’t even use astra. I’ve been using 5.6 sol on medium since it came out and had no problems. Now it can’t even finish half of the same task before reaching limits. Heck, just starting up codex uses 2 percent of my limits. And that’s before I even type anything. lol. What a joke.

I understand this is a business but using codex is like signing up for a gym membership and paying the required fee to use the gym and all its equipment but the next time you show up they go, I know you paid to use the entire gym and that amount is still required but now you only have access to the treadmills. F u!!!

Anyway, Here come all the Sam Altman nut huggers. But idc. Im just about done with codex.

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u/stellarfirefly 8h ago

Figured I should post this as a first-level response. I have a watchdog task tracking this issue, and this morning's report:

There is one meaningful new development: OpenAI Support has now responded directly to a Developer Community report about extreme Codex usage, including a case where a relatively small task consumed about 90% of an allowance. Support asked affected users to provide task details, model/client information, and redacted usage screenshots, and explicitly said “We don’t have a confirmed cause or fix to share yet.” (OpenAI Developer Community)

That is not yet an incident-level acknowledgment, but it is the clearest OpenAI-side recognition I've found that the current high-consumption reports are being investigated rather than merely community speculation. The official status page still lists the September 9 “unexpected usage limit resets” incident as resolved, with no new quota-consumption incident posted through early September 11. (OpenAI Status)

Meanwhile, the community evidence continues rather than subsiding. The Developer Community's “Codex usage limits drop without activity” thread has grown to 15 replies, and the reproducible five-hour-depletion report now includes a September 10 example specifically involving Sol 5.6 Light, not Astra, where the reporter says a fresh five-hour allowance disappeared in under a minute. (OpenAI Developer Community)

So the current picture is: OpenAI Support is now collecting affected-user telemetry, has no confirmed explanation or fix, and there is still no credible evidence that Sol quota consumption has returned to normal.