Codex five-hour usage limit appears to have been consumed abnormally fast
Open 💬 7 comments Opened Jul 9, 2026 by xmrsv
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor)
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What version of Codex CLI is running?
codex-cli 0.144.0
What subscription do you have?
Plus
Which model were you using?
gpt-5.6-luna
What platform is your computer?
Linux 6.12.94+deb13-amd64 x86_64 unknown
What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?
Konsole
Codex doctor report
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}What issue are you seeing?
On July 9, 2026, at approximately 3:15 PM Peru time, I had 100% of my five-hour usage remaining. By approximately 3:28 PM, only 5% remained.
I was using GPT-5.6 Terra with medium reasoning through the Pi coding agent, authenticated using Codex OAuth with my ChatGPT Plus account. I only exchanged a small number of conversational messages and did not intentionally run a large coding task or extensive automated workflow.
This represents a decrease of approximately 95% in 13 minutes. Please review the usage records for my account and verify whether there were duplicated requests, automatic retries, an incorrect model usage multiplier, or an issue with the GPT-5.6 Terra rollout.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Uploaded thread: 019f48a6-b40e-7f31-82b8-26860efb4c87
What is the expected behavior?
_No response_
Additional information
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I have noticed the same thing, but on Mac OS desktop app. Not just that, but quality degraded too.
Thanks for the reset :) But also after the reset the quota seems to disappear anomalously fast.
+1 Same problem....
Before the patch, I could perform the same work for two hours, but now I use up the entire five-hour limit in just 30 minutes.
The five-hour limit is roughly equivalent to the amount provided for free.
I am using Win Codex Desktop and subscribed to the Plus plan. 5.5 high mod.
I am seeing the same regression on a $100/month ChatGPT subscription through Codex/ChatGPT OAuth.
Before the GPT-5.6 rollout on July 9, I could regularly run 3–4 parallel agents for approximately 2–3 hours before exhausting the five-hour quota.
Since the rollout, a single agent can exhaust the same quota in under one hour. That represents roughly 6–12× less effective capacity under a comparable workflow.
Important details:
This appears consistent with:
Please investigate whether the July rollout changed server-side quota weighting, entitlement mapping, request classification, retry accounting, or the effective size of the five-hour allowance. A per-request usage breakdown and restoration of incorrectly consumed quota would also be appropriate.
I have the same problem with 5x pro plan. I've drained it on Luna in 1 hour on two agents, that apparently used mostly by RTK this many tokens:
300,2 k tokens output
170,4 k tokens after RTK filters
129,8 k tokens saved
and it costed me most of my 5 hours limit.
Did anyone found anything about that ? Or it is just normal and we will live our life waiting for resets ?
I burn my weekly limits in 2 hours using 3 Sol-medium session.
It is just unusable.