Usage draining much faster than yesterday
Resolved 💬 9 comments Opened Jul 1, 2026 by kendonB Closed Jul 15, 2026
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What version of Codex CLI is running?
codex-cli 0.142.4
What subscription do you have?
Pro 20x
Which model were you using?
gpt-5.5
What platform is your computer?
WSL and regular Ubuntu
What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?
standard
Codex doctor report
What issue are you seeing?
I was running /fast on one machine (Ubuntu) and not /fast on my WSL machine. Drain seemed to be going down as if I had /fast everywhere. I have tried turning off /fast to see if it slows down.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Unsure but possible /fast on one machine and not /fast on another.
What is the expected behavior?
Same drain as before.
Additional information
_No response_
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Same issue on ChatGPT Plus.
It's insane how fast the usage is draining. Like not at all what it used to be. I hit my 5 hour limit almost constantly now on Pro 20x when I never had it before
I'm on Pro plan
from codex cli update @0.142.4 / 0.142.5 tokens are depleting faster like Titanic ship is sinking in the sea due to bottom hole.
This change happened after the weekend work to address other users' fast drain problem. Did their fixes cause fast drain for us? Or fix slow drain for us?
btw I turned off /fast on all surfaces and I still think I'm seeing faster drain that usual
I wonder if it's to do with using /fork? I started making more use of /fork recently and I wonder if pre-fork usage gets counted twice?
Drain issues seem resolved