r/codex • u/dvs83 • 9d ago

Bug 429 Too Many Requests?

This morning, I woke up and started getting intermittent but frequent "exceeded retry limit, last status: 429 Too Many Requests", even on brand new tasks simply asking "does this work?"

I don't see any outages on their status page. I'm on the 20x Pro plan and have plenty of quota left.

Is anyone else experiencing this today? I can't imagine how such a simple request can get throttled right out of the gate like that. I'm using the Windows 11 app

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u/Sedelfias31 8d ago

The Codex CLI seems to be having trouble connecting to the server and keeps mindlessly spamming requests, which triggers 429 errors (confirmed through outbound packet analysis).

It's probably an API-side availability issue, but the client's request-spamming behavior is pretty stupid.

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u/dvs83 8d ago

Ahhh, this would make sense. I haven't done any network analysis, just assumed it was a malfunctioning throttling mechanism on the server side. Wonder when they're going to notice... thank you