Extreme Tokens usage for similar tasks
What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?
Version 26.623.61825
What subscription do you have?
Plus
What platform is your computer?
Darwin 25.5.0 arm64 arm
What issue are you seeing?
I have been using Codex through the ChatGPT Plus plan for the past week without any issues. However, today I suddenly started experiencing extremely high token usage.
I am using the same prompts for the same tasks as before, but a single prompt unexpectedly consumed more than 53% of my 5-hour token limit, which severely disrupted my workflow.
Based on my usage over the past week, each prompt would normally consume only 2–3% of the 5-hour limit. Today's spike in token consumption is completely unexpected and seems abnormal.
Could you please investigate whether there is an issue with token accounting or if something has changed on the backend?
What steps can reproduce the bug?
For me, its occuring at every prompt I am giving it today
What is the expected behavior?
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Additional information
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Am having the same issue for the past 48 hours, I know they have said on the status page that this has been fixed but I am finding that I am consuming my limit a lot faster than a few days ago and doing less work on it.
Yes same, even since it is supposedly fixed, the limit is reach way faster
Yes and even though I updated my application, it is still using way too many tokens even for normal tasks.
I also tried to do some tweaks in my prompts but I didn't work no matter how simple or complex the query is.