Codex has encountered some anomalies. My Pro20x subscription usage appears to be like that of Plus

Open 💬 17 comments Opened Jun 25, 2026 by NAXXcode
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What issue are you seeing?

Codex has encountered some anomalies. My Pro20x subscription usage appears to be like that of Plus
why?

What steps can reproduce the bug?

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What is the expected behavior?

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17 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 2 months ago

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

  • #29243
  • #29900
  • #29963
  • #29579
  • #29638

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buenokai917-ux · 2 months ago

same issue.

PoemCat · 2 months ago

same issue.

DyncEric · 2 months ago

Same as me, i used a reset card, and my Pro 20x - 5 hours limit used over in 20mins!!!

LxzBUG · 2 months ago

Same problem!!!!!

LxzBUG · 2 months ago

I am a Pro user; after using a reset card, my quota was exhausted in just 30 minutes, yet no usage records appear in the backend.

amarbunty · 2 months ago

Same this issue is increasing with updates day by day after 15 july. i am on 20x pro plan.

CodingSha · 2 months ago

Same problem!i am on 20x pro plan.

hahasasa · 2 months ago

Same here — my Pro accounts behave as if the 5h limit is Plus-tier (or smaller), not what a Pro plan should give. Concrete evidence from the upstream error stream:

On 2026-06-25, one of my Pro accounts hit usage_limit_reached, the 5h limit reset, and the SAME account reached usage_limit_reached again only ~41 minutes later. Across that 41-minute window, actual billed usage for the two active Pro accounts combined was only ~1.35M tokens (~1.05M input + ~6K output across 48 successful requests) — a small amount of real usage that should be a tiny fraction of a Pro 5h limit, yet it burned 100% of it.

For comparison, the same account earlier the same day consumed ~156M tokens inside a 5h rolling window before the limit triggered. So the same plan/account hit the same limit at 1.35M tokens (41 min) vs 156M tokens (5h) — a ~115x discrepancy that cannot be explained by real token consumption.

Relevant upstream error payload I captured:
status: 429
error: { "type": "usage_limit_reached", "message": "The usage limit has been reached", "plan_type": "pro", "resets_in_seconds": 15648, "eligible_promo": null }

Note plan_type is "pro" but the effective limit behaves nothing like a Pro tier. This strongly suggests a server-side quota accounting bug where Pro limits are being computed as a much smaller tier (Plus-like) after a reset, rather than proportional to actual token usage. Matches the "Pro usage looks like Plus" symptom described here.

m1337v · 2 months ago

Maybe you can't replicate it as the issue is with the App and not CLI.
But good call, i'll try with CLI and see if it's better that way.

NAXXcode · 2 months ago
not the place for this man. cmon. bloating the issues, making more work for the maintainers for nothing. you havent shared config, logs, or anything unique, much less factual about you claim. this is purely anecdotal, in the same tier as a reddit post. shame

Because I was in a hurry, I didn't fill in the relevant information. In fact, that's exactly what happened. After two rounds of conversation, my quota was exhausted, and Pro20x shouldn't have such usage. Moreover, many people today have encountered the same problem as I have. I am not ashamed of this.On the contrary, you're the one who should be ashamed of having so many downvotes.

gimlee · 2 months ago

my money!

m1337v · 2 months ago

Tried in CLI too and have the same issue. New chat, one prompt and 5h usage is gone, so seems a serverside issue, not app/harness related

HeLongaa · 2 months ago

I don't know why my PRO20 X allowance is worse than the Free subscription; it's honestly garbage.

topiniu · 2 months ago

i am in pro 5X, but same issue. Gpt 5.5 even can not solve one bug in 5h rate limit

KaanSevinc · 25 days ago

The weekly token ran out in just 28 hours!
This is the Pro subscription — come on!

KaanSevinc · 11 days ago
The weekly token ran out in just 28 hours! This is the Pro subscription — come on!

Update!

After changing to the 20x tier.
I have already consumed approximately 70% of that weekly allowance in 48h
That is on a plan costing more than €200, with 20x usage, in less than two days.