Pro plan 5-hour usage limit depleted in ~20 minutes under light Codex workload
Open 💬 4 comments Opened Apr 25, 2026 by vietnt
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What version of Codex CLI is running?
0.125.0
What subscription do you have?
Pro $200
Which model were you using?
gpt-5.5 high fast
What platform is your computer?
Darwin 25.3.0 arm64 arm
What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?
Warp
What issue are you seeing?
My 5-hour usage limit was consumed extremely quickly: it went from 0% to 100% in about 20 minutes, even though I was only running a light workload.
It feels like I were on a Plus subscription, rather than the $200/month Pro plan.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Uploaded thread: 019dc546-0442-70e1-9527-531b7f58d1a8
What is the expected behavior?
_No response_
Additional information
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4 Comments
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Same here
Another key issue is that the automatic context compaction is currently seriously unstable. The compression step often takes a very long time, and if it fails, the whole session/task context can become unusable, forcing me to start a new session and rerun or re-explain the task from scratch. That also wastes a large amount of tokens/usage.
I’m on the $200 Pro plan, and even with that, the allowance feels extremely fragile. In my case, I have nearly exhausted all of my usage in about two days. The usage drain is not only from the actual coding work, but also from failed or slow compactions and having to restart sessions after context loss.
im on plus so i expect low usage, but im getting more out of my 20 dollar claude plan.
and that is backwards