Usage Draining Absurdly Fast

Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Apr 5, 2026 by doublemover Closed Apr 5, 2026

What version of Codex CLI is running?

117

What subscription do you have?

Pro

Which model were you using?

gpt-5.4 high

What platform is your computer?

w11 x64

What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?

ps7.x

What issue are you seeing?

I noticed that weekly limits were reset, started a fun little side project. Nothing too insane or intensive. In just 3 days I am down to 5% remaining?! This is so very much less than what I am expecting to be able to do for $50 a week.

Comparing session logs of March 12th (the tallest bar) with any of April 2nd 3rd or 4th (the three most recent bars), it's nowhere near half as much usage compared to the 12th, it's barely even 1/10th as much usage by any metric (turns, tokens in/out/cached/reasoning, tool calls).

Did you accidentally put $200 users on the fabled $100 plan or something? If I had used half as much over these 3 days that might be closer to acceptable but still bad in the perspective of 2x limits ending.

No idea why the bars were grey for a day or two, it was a bug y'all introduced when I updated the TUI.

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What steps can reproduce the bug?

Use codex

What is the expected behavior?

My usage does not rapidly deplete doing very small amounts of work and I feel like I am getting my money's worth for what is supposed to be 1/4th of $200.

Additional information

Both this week and last were in sessions that have most of the rote information heavily cached, 1B cached minimum, it does not seem like these are even getting counted as cached tokens at all.

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