### What version of Codex is running? _No response_ ### Which model were you using? _No response_ ### What platform is your computer? _No response_ ### What steps can reproduce the bug? ### What is the expected behavior? To not have the limit because codex cli limit is different. ### What do you see instead? _No response_ ### Additional information _No

Unexpectedly hitting rate limits in IDE

Resolved 💬 6 comments Opened Sep 24, 2025 by TheDarkSkyXD Closed Oct 21, 2025

💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (dylan-hurd-oai, contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What version of Codex is running?

_No response_

Which model were you using?

_No response_

What platform is your computer?

_No response_

What steps can reproduce the bug?

What is the expected behavior?

To not have the limit because codex cli limit is different.

What do you see instead?

_No response_

Additional information

_No response_

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6 Comments

jskorlol · 11 months ago

It seems there’s an issue in version 0.40.0.
I didn’t make many request, but I immediately hit the limit.

korobprog · 11 months ago

I have the same problem.

dylan-hurd-oai contributor · 11 months ago

Thanks for flagging this! Couple things:

@TheDarkSkyXD to be clear - the cli and the IDE do share the same rate limit. If you use up your rate limit in either the cli or the extension, you will be rate limited in both. If you think there's a bug, can you please fill out the full details of the issue template to help us investigate?
@jskorlol @korobprog which rate limit are you hitting? The 5-hour window or the weekly?

TheDarkSkyXD · 11 months ago

Thanks for flagging this! Couple things: 1. @TheDarkSkyXD to be clear - the cli and the IDE do share the same rate limit. If you use up your rate limit in either the cli or the extension, you will be rate limited in both. If you think there's a bug, can you please fill out the full details of the issue template to help us investigate? 2. @jskorlol @korobprog which rate limit are you hitting? The 5-hour window or the weekly?

Why are some users not experiencing the same rate limit to others not experiencing a rate limit? Also the week rate limit is a bit harsh and same copying anthropic and users are not using claude code as much anymore because why pay for a month and can only use the ai for 2 weeks out of the month.

jskorlol · 11 months ago

Thanks for flagging this! Couple things: 1. @TheDarkSkyXD to be clear - the cli and the IDE do share the same rate limit. If you use up your rate limit in either the cli or the extension, you will be rate limited in both. If you think there's a bug, can you please fill out the full details of the issue template to help us investigate? 2. @jskorlol @korobprog which rate limit are you hitting? The 5-hour window or the weekly?

I am on a Plus subscription.
I encountered a 5-hour limit.

What I don’t understand is that after the 5-hour limit was lifted, I sent a message a few hours later, and immediately the limit was triggered again.

Not a single request was processed.

This problem only started happening after the update to version 0.40.0.

For reference, I have two Plus accounts, and after the upgrade, both accounts hit the limit right away after sending just one message.

tibo-openai collaborator · 10 months ago

We have continued to make improvements here and haven't heard more reports of similar issues, so I'm going to close this, but please re-open an issue if you see this again.