Possible Pro 20x entitlement or weekly quota accounting mismatch

Open 💬 3 comments Opened Aug 13, 2026 by Lastprismer
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What version of Codex CLI is running?

codex-cli 0.147.0

What subscription do you have?

Pro 20x

Which model were you using?

gpt-5.6-sol, terra, luna

What platform is your computer?

Linux 5.4.250-2-velinux1u1-amd64 x86_64 x86_64

What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?

VS Code

Codex doctor report

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 "schemaVersion": 1,
 "generatedAt": "1786623683s since unix epoch",
 "overallStatus": "ok",
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}

What issue are you seeing?

I am subscribed to ChatGPT Pro 20x, but my effective Codex weekly quota consumption appears closer to the Pro 5x tier.

During one controlled workload on August 13, 2026, my 7-day Codex usage increased from 16% used to 19% used, a change of approximately 3 percentage points.

Workload window:

  • 2026-08-13 11:01–11:42 UTC
  • Main session ID: 019ff056-f054-7b43-a9d5-8e69c951903e
  • Standard/default service tier
  • Fast mode was not enabled
  • Models used: GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna
  • One main agent and five subagents
  • No GPU, image generation, or OCR model usage

Local session telemetry records the following aggregate usage, including all subagents:

  • Input tokens: 32,808,375
  • Cached input tokens: 30,708,736
  • Uncached input tokens: 2,099,639
  • Output tokens: 339,513
  • Reasoning tokens: 142,942, already included in output
  • Every individual request was below the 272K long-context threshold

Using the published Standard short-context credit rates, this corresponds to approximately:

  • GPT-5.6 Sol: 512.9 credits
  • GPT-5.6 Terra: 85.2 credits
  • GPT-5.6 Luna: 7.0 credits
  • Total: approximately 605 credits
  • API-price equivalent: approximately USD 24.20

A 605-credit workload consuming approximately 3% of the weekly allowance implies an effective weekly capacity of only about 20,000 credits, or roughly USD 800 at the published API-equivalent rate.
That appears much closer to a Pro 5x allowance than the expected Pro 20x scale.

I understand that the percentage display is rounded and that quota accounting may be delayed. However, the discrepancy is large enough to warrant checking the server-side entitlement and usage ledger.

This may be related to:

Could you please verify:

  1. Whether my account is actually provisioned with the Pro 20x Codex quota bucket.
  2. Whether cached input, subagent activity, retries, or delayed reconciliation were charged correctly.
  3. The exact credits deducted for the session above.
  4. Whether any incorrectly deducted weekly quota can be restored.
  5. Whether the product can expose per-session credit deductions for auditing.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Uploaded thread: 019ff056-f054-7b43-a9d5-8e69c951903e

What is the expected behavior?

_No response_

Additional information

_No response_

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3 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 14 days ago

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

  • #38335
  • #38354

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Turtle-Li · 14 days ago

I'm also seeing unusually high usage on my end, and the difference compared with before is significant—at least 4–5 times higher.

jiaruihz · 7 days ago

Fresh reproduction after a new weekly reset (Aug 20)

I have a cleaner reproduction from a newly reset weekly window.

The Codex UI currently shows:

Weekly usage remaining: 46%
Next reset: 2026-08-27 11:30 (local time, UTC+8)

This means the current weekly window began at approximately 2026-08-20 11:30 UTC+8, and about 54 percentage points of the weekly allowance were consumed within ~11 hours.

However, my entire local Codex activity for Aug 20 is only:

Model: GPT-5.6 Terra
Input tokens:          642,262
Cache read:         13,400,832
Output tokens:          59,196
Reasoning output:       22,039   (subset of output)
Total tokens:       14,102,290

The local state DB independently shows only two active threads today:

12.44M tokens  — GPT-5.6 Terra / high
 1.66M tokens  — GPT-5.6 Terra / medium
-------------------------------
~14.10M tokens total

So the SQLite thread totals and the JSONL-based daily usage agree closely.

Using the published short-context Terra credit rates as a comparison metric:

642,262  uncached/input-equivalent × 50 cr / 1M  ≈ 32.11 cr
13,400,832 cached input          × 5 cr / 1M    ≈ 67.00 cr
59,196 output                    × 300 cr / 1M  ≈ 17.76 cr
                                                   --------
                                                   ≈116.88 cr

Importantly, 116.88 credits is an upper bound for the new weekly window, because the local daily report covers 00:00→now, while the weekly quota did not reset until ~11:30.

So the observed relationship is approximately:

<= ~117 credit-equivalent local activity
        vs.
~54 percentage points of the Pro 20x weekly allowance consumed

I understand that the subscription quota formula may not be identical to the published credit rate card, and local telemetry is not the authoritative server-side ledger. But the magnitude of this discrepancy appears far too large to reconcile with the visible local activity alone.

Could the team please check, for this window specifically:

  1. the effective weekly quota denominator / entitlement assigned to the account;
  2. the server-side usage ledger advancing rate_limits.primary.used_percent;
  3. whether delayed usage, retries, background tasks, Work / Workspace Agents, subagents, or other non-local activity was charged to the same bucket;
  4. whether any usage from the prior window was reconciled into the newly reset window;
  5. whether the missing allowance can be restored if this is an accounting error.

I have a screenshot of the 46% remaining meter and can provide additional local telemetry or a diagnostic/feedback ID if useful.