Usage limits are running out quickly
Open 💬 1 comment Opened Jun 2, 2026 by diamondStar35
What version of Codex CLI is running?
0.135.0
What subscription do you have?
GPT Plus
Which model were you using?
GPT-5.5
What platform is your computer?
Windows x64
What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?
Windows PowerShell
Codex doctor report
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}What issue are you seeing?
Codex usage limits are running down quickly. Like seriously, the false claims about GPT-5.5 being the most efficient model is completely false. It burns the tokens very quickly, either there is a critical issue with Codex CLI itself or the model, most likely.
I'm not going to repeat what I have said about the actions that make 0 sense, such as removing 5.3-Codex even though it was much better than this, but this is definitely a frustrating way of forcing users to switch to higher plans.
I'm a student and I cannot afford to switch to higher plans. If I do not get anything helpful, I am just going to end my subscription intirely because at this point it's just useless.
Can somebody justify losing 73% of your weekly limit in one and a half day for maybe an hour of the work? The 5h limit now is pretty useless. You get like 25 minutes at max, and then you have to wait for another 5 hours.
Can somebody justify this nonsense? I am genuinely frustrated by these actions that have no explanations and no announcements on why the 5.3-Codex model was removed.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Start a session and give it a medium task to work on.
Thread ID: "019e8720-5042-7540-829e-84bf86e09be8".
What is the expected behavior?
The expected behavior is that this should not happen.
Additional information
_No response_
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