Unbelievable sudden token usage

Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Mar 27, 2026 by zuuxuux Closed Mar 27, 2026

What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?

26.325.21211

What subscription do you have?

Pro

What platform is your computer?

Linux

What issue are you seeing?

I switched to using much shorter sessions and things seem to have dramitally improved. I used to (even before the mega oken burning started) used to enjoy using longer sessions to work on and polish features. Hearing about deleting .codex sometimes working made me think that it was indirectly forcing people to cut short longer chats. After starting to be more disciplined about using shorter chats I feel that rate burn has gone back to what it was before. Makes me think that this is a caching issue that would end up disproportionately effecting longer (in terms of term and tokens) chats

I was very very wrong about this.

Something has gone horrendously wrong. This is my usage, it is way down today

<img width="1059" height="229" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/eb46fbb1-b9fb-4956-98a1-5fc7cf608f8c" />

But somehow I am now on 40% remaining

<img width="456" height="75" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ee9a0ba9-3c58-486a-8d08-b3c60eef9ace" />

This is after the reset this morning, and clearly much much lower usage as shown in my usage cahrt.

I am on the Pro tier. This is clearly a very extreme bug. This is going to make codex unusable for me

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Just use the app very conservatively

What is the expected behavior?

I should be able to use codex at this rate (and ideally much higher usage) without getting close to my limit

Additional information

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