Mysterious Exec usage eats entire 5h and weekly budget in 30 minutes upon reset
Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Mar 23, 2026 by rdylina Closed Mar 23, 2026
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I'm not sure if this is a platform issue or a cli/codex app issue.
The last two days suddenly my usage is eaten up in 60 minutes or less. It shows the usage as Exec. No further observability is available in the platform that I am aware of.
Other notable issue. My weekly usage was over 57% remaining last night, there was a single 5 hour reset since then and that single 5 hour reset somehow took the entirety of my remaining weekly usage.
Something fishy happening here.
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Thanks for the bug report, but there's not enough information here for us to investigate. Please use
/feedbackwhen reporting issues like this.I'll refer you to #14593.
I am having this same issue and it's not clear where it's coming from so there is not an obvious session to flag for feedback.
Basically, weekly usage is draining even when I'm not using any OpenAI services. When I check, I see about 20% of weekly usage labeled as "Exec" and see usage on days I'm not using any OpenAI service. I looked through the developer blog, GitHub, etc. and didn't find an answer. I contacted support and followed their instructions to log out of all OpenAI accounts. But the problem persists. Often when I have under 10% of usage left, it is common for it to go to zero before I get a chance to use it.
I also found this post of people have the same issue:
https://community.openai.com/t/codex-pro-100-weekly-credit-exhausted-by-codex-exec-what-is-it-and-how-do-i-stop-it/1377688/4