Codex refusing to honour Pro plan upgrade mid-session, locks users out against incorrect rate limits

Open 💬 2 comments Opened Jun 15, 2026 by jackwh

What version of Codex CLI is running?

codex-cli 0.139.0

What subscription do you have?

Plus -> Pro Lite

Which model were you using?

N/A

What platform is your computer?

macOS Tahoe

What issue are you seeing?

I upgraded my subscription during a long-running session to avoid hitting my usage limits. The session completed successfully but my very next message was blocked by the original rate-limit cooldown. The limiter continued to enforce the pre-upgrade block time, suggesting the subscription upgrade updated my entitlement state but did not clear or recompute the existing rate-limit lockout.

See also: #24942.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Uploaded thread: 019ec900-b80f-79d3-afb5-ee1c80b5f11f

What is the expected behavior?

Measure rate limit enforcement against the current state of the user's subscription, not the state they started the session with.

Additional information

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