Weekly limits dropping too quickly
Open 💬 3 comments Opened Apr 29, 2026 by Bobushka
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor)
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What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?
Version 26.422.71525 (2210)
What subscription do you have?
PRO
What platform is your computer?
Darwin 25.4.0 arm64 arm
What issue are you seeing?
The weekly limit dropped by 4% in the new chat on an empty project after the first prompt "Hi" and 8k tokens used. and this is not the only case: this behavior started yesterday and my weekly limit dropped in 2 hours of normal work from 100% to 22%.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
019dd844-21c2-79c2-9567-8677bc103bee
258k
5.5 high
What is the expected behavior?
Typically, this amount of work takes up 2-3% of the weekly limit, even on a new model.
Additional information
_No response_
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It's funny that even when I'm not doing any work at all, just with the app open, the weekly limit decreases by 1% every 6 hours. Is this normal?
This is not a UX issue or misunderstanding.
This is a billing / metering failure affecting a paid PRO subscription.
Key facts:
This makes the product unusable:
This should be treated as:
Please confirm:
1) Is this expected behavior?
2) If not — is this a known incident?
3) Is usage being incorrectly metered in idle sessions?
Request: