Usage limit on a Monday morning on ChatGPT Plus
What version of Codex is running?
codex-cli 0.23.0
Which model were you using?
gpt-5 medium (default setting)
What platform is your computer?
Darwin 24.6.0 x86_64 i386
What steps can reproduce the bug?
🖐 You've hit your usage limit. Upgrade to Pro (https://openai.com/chatgpt/pricing), or wait for limits to reset (every 5h and every week.).
It's Monday morning, I just got into the office; had a standup, got some coffee, sat down at my computer. I run codex in my terminal and ask it a simple question about my codebase, it immediately hit me with this. It's both a new week and well over 5 hours since I last used it. So why didn't the usage limit reset? I didn't even get it to do a single thing. I event tried updating the CLI with homebrew and login again in case that was the problem.
What is the expected behavior?
For it to reset usage every 5h and every week as is stated, so it should work on a Monday morning when I haven't yet used it.
What do you see instead?
Instead I see the dreaded:
🖐 You've hit your usage limit. Upgrade to Pro (https://openai.com/chatgpt/pricing), or wait for limits to reset (every 5h and every week.).
Additional information
Over the last couple of days the limit have felt more and more restricted, eventually I had to give up trying to vibe code something over the weekend. Is there a secret total limit that only resets every week thats running on a different timezone or something?
Edit It's Thuesday and its working again.
22 Comments
Same issue here.
Try it again, it works for me.
I’m experiencing the same issue. It would be really helpful if they published a blog post explaining the limits in detail. At the very least, the system should indicate whether I’ve hit an hourly or weekly rate limit, and provide a counter showing how much usage I have left.
What do you mean by "try it again"? I restarted Codex completely, but the message still won’t go away.
Same issue here since 3 days. I only use Codex for like 1 hour last week.
same issue here.
🖐 You've hit your usage limit. Upgrade to Pro (https://openai.com/chatgpt/pricing), or wait for limits to reset (every 5h and every week.).
📊 Token Usage
• Session ID:
• Input: 9576 (+ 45184 cached)
• Output: 535
• Total: 10111
It is Monday (or even Tuesday) everywhere now, and still no weekly reset! This really is a joke, or fraud, or something. There is at least one other thread about limits and codex, which got closed with a 'We are fixing it, trust us bro' well the trust has gone, perhaps the ChatGPT bubble has burst?
22 hours now and still waiting
Same problem here.
On saturday afternoon subscribed to Plus. I used for a an 1 hour.
This morning i used again 10am -> 11.30am is blocked to reach the limits. --- now at 11.20 pm there is still the limits. Honestly speaking i don't know that's happened.
info: gpt-5-med reasoning, the stats i can't see the conversation of this morning but from logs are 940k char. , used mcp serena, used on a small codebase (just started a new project with 2-3 screens - react native)
Read https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/2448. It seems there are some problems with the latest version 0.23.0.
It's just crazy to being ignored about such a widespread problem, the limits reset every 5 hours are literally gone, its broken for a bunch of people and 0 response from the Codex team...
I dont think at this rate openai even wants you to use codex with ChatGPT plus plan. The limits are getting crazy short.
Looks like a bug was introduced and they've shipped a temp fix, and maybe reset the weekly limits? https://x.com/embirico/status/1960164145187393687
https://x.com/embirico/status/1960193495265677637
and it looks like the mcp usage is causing a consumption bug as well
I'm closing my own issue since it's back to working, but it would be nice if OpenAI's codex team built inn some better information in the tool about usage limits.
We got this tweet, so that might being addressed
https://x.com/embirico/status/1960164548062929164
after figured out that i was bugged.
just used a couple of time yesterday e tomorrow, i didn't know the token used, but now says:
🖐 You've hit your usage limit. Upgrade to Pro (https://openai.com/chatgpt/pricing) or try again in 2 days 20 hours 44 minutes.
i don't know...
I experienced the same thing, after just a few prompts it displayed the message:
Even though it happened on the very same day I purchased the Plus plan. And now, after several days, it still shows the same message. I’ve already tried reinstalling Codex, tried logging in again, but the message is still the same.
same issue, got locked out for overday after just minimal codex workload early this Monday, on gpt plus
■ You've hit your usage limit. Upgrade to Pro (https://openai.com/chatgpt/pricing) or try again in 2 days 22 hours 51 minutes.
Same here!
You've hit your usage limit. Upgrade to Pro (https://openai.com/chatgpt/pricing) or try again in 2 days 21 hours 55 minutes.