unexpected status 404 Not Found: Unknown error, url: https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses, cf-ray: ...

Open 💬 12 comments Opened Jun 17, 2026 by Benjamin-Dobell
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?

26.611.61753

What subscription do you have?

Pro x20

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 25.3.0 arm64 arm

What issue are you seeing?

Repeatedly encountering in my GPT 5.4 xhigh session:

unexpected status 404 Not Found: Unknown error, url: https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses, cf-ray: ...

I can send a message and get an update back, but then when agent would think and continue I encountered this error 3 time in a row.

I have another session running with GPT 5.5 xhigh and it seems to be unaffected.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

I have a long running session going, it's had many compactions and plenty of steering. I've also been spinning up sub-agents for smaller tasks where this session is acting as an orchestrator. It failed shortly after steering it to spin up a sub-agent, not sure if that's related.

Session stopped with this error, it retried 5/5 times and gave up. This did not occur immediately after compaction, but it was shortly there after, maybe around 50k tokens.

<img width="1436" height="200" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/45737d09-d91e-4380-ad97-d33d997d5e61" />

Sending Continue did work, but it failed again after taking a turn. I tried this twice more and it does seem that for now the session is continuing on.

What is the expected behavior?

Don't die mid session.

Ideally we'd also have more error resistant retries with exponential back-off to something like 20 retries over 10 minutes.

Additional information

_No response_

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12 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 1 month ago

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

  • #27047
  • #27034

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panquequelol · 1 month ago

just ran into the same issue

unexpected status 404 Not Found: Unknown error, url: https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses, cf-ray: a0d3a67a3a08bae7-SCL

latest codex version, chile

brunovnq · 1 month ago

Same here, Pro 20x. Brazil.

<img width="784" height="497" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d03e0df3-4d82-423d-ac09-bf71f547bf96" />

bluemozilla · 1 month ago

Same here, Plus. Brazil.

<img width="1023" height="133" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f9782441-31c6-4842-8d49-731ea2f89d77" />

mudsg24 · 1 month ago

I am having the same issue here, and the usage page also disappears.

PaulRBerg · 1 month ago

Hitting this as well.

unexpected status 404 Not Found: Unknown error, url: https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses, cf-ray: a0d3b3537bcbd403-OTP

Looks like the same /backend-api/codex/responses failure as above, not the older Model not found gpt-5.5 404.

brunovnq · 1 month ago
Same here, Pro 20x. Brazil. <img alt="Image" width="784" height="497" src="https://private-user-images.githubusercontent.com/287310887/609368556-d03e0df3-4d82-423d-ac09-bf71f547bf96.png?jwt=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJnaXRodWIuY29tIiwiYXVkIjoicmF3LmdpdGh1YnVzZXJjb250ZW50LmNvbSIsImtleSI6ImtleTUiLCJleHAiOjE3ODE3MTY2NzEsIm5iZiI6MTc4MTcxNjM3MSwicGF0aCI6Ii8yODczMTA4ODcvNjA5MzY4NTU2LWQwM2UwZGYzLTRkODItNDIzZC1hYzA5LWJmNzFmNTQ3YmY5Ni5wbmc_WC1BbXotQWxnb3JpdGhtPUFXUzQtSE1BQy1TSEEyNTYmWC1BbXotQ3JlZGVudGlhbD1BS0lBVkNPRFlMU0E1M1BRSzRaQSUyRjIwMjYwNjE3JTJGdXMtZWFzdC0xJTJGczMlMkZhd3M0X3JlcXVlc3QmWC1BbXotRGF0ZT0yMDI2MDYxN1QxNzEyNTFaJlgtQW16LUV4cGlyZXM9MzAwJlgtQW16LVNpZ25hdHVyZT1kNzdiN2QzZjg4ZTFkNDVjYmU5OWFlYzQ4NmJmOWU2NjFhODUyNDAzZTUxMWUxOTExZmJkYWY5OTVlYmMxOTJkJlgtQW16LVNpZ25lZEhlYWRlcnM9aG9zdCZyZXNwb25zZS1jb250ZW50LXR5cGU9aW1hZ2UlMkZwbmcifQ.Img703iA8dM1UXzQSY8qXlIVx1aN8gEXmZT8ZJDwdRI">

Work

lcnlvrz-revelacion · 1 month ago

same error here

MiltonBarraza · 1 month ago

Same here:
unexpected status 404 Not Found: Unknown error, url: https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses, cf-ray: a0d3ba13d822f394-EZE
It had already happened to me on one account, and now it's happening to me on another.

jdiaz97 · 1 month ago

same here

Solorio-inc · 27 days ago

any updates or solutions i got the same message today

PaulRBerg · 27 days ago

@Solorio-inc I've switched to remote compaction v2, which works well. Enable it like this in config.toml:

[features]
  remote_compaction_v2 = true