Usage limits halved

Resolved 💬 5 comments Opened Sep 24, 2025 by dlukt Closed Oct 21, 2025

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

What version of Codex is running?

0.40

Which model were you using?

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What platform is your computer?

_No response_

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Since yesterday you have halved the weekly usage limits.
What used to be ~20 hours for Plus and Teams are now ~10h.

The 5h limit is currently around 1.6M tokens, used to be ~2.5M.

This is unacceptable and greatly de-values the expensive subscriptions.

Codex web in contrast is stupid and only good for long-winded bugfixing iterations.

What is the expected behavior?

Not being limited to 10h/week

What do you see instead?

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Additional information

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5 Comments

ae-openai contributor · 11 months ago

Hey @dlukt, thanks for the report. We didn't do anything to change limits. That said, if you're actually seeing 0.5x usage, that sounds very suspicious. Can you resume some recent sessions, run /status, and send us the sessionIDs from those please, so we can look into it?

dlukt · 11 months ago

Sorry if I sounded a little pissed off, but yeah, 10h isn't much.
I'm rotating 3 accounts, 1 is that of my friend who doesn't use codex and he let me use it.
Since that's against the TOS. I'll only post the recent session, to not compromise his account.

  • Session ID: 01997d1a-0322-7bc3-a27e-3da9952fd6e1
  • Input: 1,721,974 (+ 77293824 cached)
  • Output: 271,378
  • Total: 1,993,352

before that session I was using his account.
The above is after the 5h limit was hit and then some.
It used to be around 2.5M.
The limit was hit around 1.67M.

What I did was implement full-text search for a Go backend with ent and gqlgen and postgres (tsvector).
There it hit a bug in ent, which took about 1h to debug (at least it felt like it).

huzaifah0x00 · 11 months ago

We didn't do anything to change limits

I don't have any collected metrics ( I don't know if I can extract them from my codex history ), but I do _feel_ like the usage limits have been changed as well. It used to last easily atleast 4-5 days into a week before I would hit a usage limit... But this week. my weekly usage ran out in just 1 day of the week.

But since you say you haven't changed the limits, Is there a way for me to check my all-time usage so I can compare between the usage of my previous weeks and this week? maybe I just used it a lot in 1 day compared to my previous usages.

dlukt · 11 months ago

seems to be better now. When I was close to the 5h limit the weekly was at ~25%, where when I created this issue it was at 50%

tibo-openai collaborator · 10 months ago

No changes were made to the usage limits, but we did just ship a new usage dashboard to provide more information on usage: https://chatgpt.com/codex/settings/usage