Quota usage is extremly high for basic tasks
Open 💬 3 comments Opened Apr 29, 2026 by daletman
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor)
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What version of Codex CLI is running?
codex-cli 0.125.0
What subscription do you have?
Business Pro
Which model were you using?
gpt-5.5
What platform is your computer?
Darwin 24.6.0 x86_64 i386
What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?
Ghostty
What issue are you seeing?
A simple git commit prompt used 11 % of my 5 hour quota.
The commit was not large (16 files changed, 2199 insertions(+), 87 deletions(-)).
Context window: 86% left (46.8K used / 258K).
This is just absolutely unusable to do real work.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Use codex
What is the expected behavior?
_No response_
Additional information
_No response_
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Same here
Also having this for the past week using the same model and reasoning effort that rarely used more than a third of my weekly limit. Suddenly the same work on the same projects is eating up my quota in a single workday