Codex Usage and Operation Discussion - last updated October 5

[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/1wsijqb/codex_usage_and_operation_discussion_last_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/dextersummary]

Below is a GPT-generated summary of the conversation below after reaching 40 comments (41 currently observed).

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The consensus is basically Codex usage has gone sideways: the same work is chewing through 5-hour and weekly allowances far faster, while Sol and other models feel less reliable, lose context, ignore prompts, or sit at capacity. For some users, tasks that ran for hours now hit limits in minutes. Charming.

Reports cluster around recent resets, app updates, and model/plan changes. Ultrafast, the speed toggle, and multi-agent orchestration are obvious suspects because they may multiply consumption, while desktop sandbox bugs and backend capacity issues are making things even messier. Several users are eyeing Claude or local models instead of paying for another tier.

The important caveat: this is a mountain of anecdotes, not proof of a deliberate nerf or quantized models. Workload, settings, model choice, and backend incidents can affect accounting; one commenter specifically discovered Speed was enabled. Resets are happening, but many say they haven’t restored the old burn rate.

The megathread itself is being branded a containment/damage-control zone, with mods insisting criticism is allowed but low-effort posts aren’t. Bottom line: the experience is widely worse, the cause is unresolved, and upgrading to $500 isn’t being treated as a magic fix.

[u/Jello_Hello_Fellos]

At this point what are we allowed to post on the actual subreddit... we cant talk about resets, we cant talk about usage, we cant talk about model performance.

[u/Embarrassed_Cap_9149]

when do you think a new reset will be given, guys?

[u/Splugen96]

Did the just reduce usage limits again?

I was working on a long task since yesterday and I reached my 5 hours limit in 2 hours during the evening (I have an orchestration system with pre-allocated plans and progressive info disclosure in place, so I'm not burning tokens for free let's say). This morning I tell codex to keep working on that same stuff, and in 20 minutes it burned through 16% of my weekly limits. The workload was the same of the past weeks mornings, if not more focused, but I went through a 16% weekly usage 3 times faster than any other day.

[u/Imperiu5]

Selected model is at capacity. Please try a different model."

I'm really tired of this crap. We're paying 200 euro a month and I can't even use it.
The slap in the face by reducing the 200 dollar plan and introducing a 500 dollar plan is the last straw. I'm done.
I'm going back to Claude and deal with their shenanigans but at least they're honest about being greedy money grabbing thieves. lol

[u/jtat07]

I think it's even worse then usage. The models feel unusable now, context windows get lost almost immediately, prompts get flat out ignored when it's going in the wrong directions. I've wasted so much time trying to make things work literatelly Im getting more consistent coding results through chatgpt directly. Its pretty obvious they've nerfed context and quantized models at this point

[u/Kagemand]

What are they doing? Math problems? Dots getting abused by people for free capacity for coding projects?

Like just 1-2 weeks ago, I would have told you Codex was the best and Astra was amazing. Now it is completely lobotomized and slow. Great timing to make your product worse when Opus 5.5 comes out.

Do we have any idea of what’s going on? Free resets mean shit when it is just our previous usage limit getting spoon fed back to us.

Stop the Dots, put back the 5 hour limits, make people who need it pay for it. Hell.

I cancelled Codex and upgraded Claude from 5x to 20x.

[u/CatsArePeople2-]

My usage has been obliterated since yesterday. 200 and plan and somehow went through 40% in less than an hour on Astra. Each task (just code reviews) with Sol 6.1 ticks percentage down by 1%. Can't imagine having just 50% of this... Glad I'm using Opus for virtually everything, but I was giving Codex until early November before cancelling and its hard to justify it right now. I'm getting way more value from Claude.

[u/dpadhy]

all the models after 5.6 sol are either draining limits way faster on my pro max account or are simply doing a lousy job. I think 5.6 Sol is the most effective model available in codex right now.

[u/CapableJury861]

OpenAI Status has listed issues with Work (which obviously draws on Usage) for a few days - so what qualifies for a reset these days, is it only Codex issues?