Hitting rate limits fast

Resolved 💬 10 comments Opened Nov 2, 2025 by HyggeAlek Closed Nov 6, 2025

💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What version of Codex is running?

0.4.35

What subscription do you have?

Plus

Which model were you using?

gpt-5-codex medium

What platform is your computer?

Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.26200.0 x64

What issue are you seeing?

I'm hitting rate limits so fast,, I can't even polish the work it has done before hitting the 5 hours, and sometimes the weekly limit.
I'm not using the high, and the low model doesn't understand as much therefore i have to use the medium one.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Use the extension with medium.

What is the expected behavior?

_No response_

Additional information

_No response_

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10 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 8 months ago

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

#6105
#6008
#6003
#5994
#5991

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mikkel32 · 8 months ago

it's not a bug, it's just openai being greedy!

zhengtxecon · 8 months ago

Same issue here. I am a pro user, didn't actually use much and reached 99% weekly limit and 5h limit at the same time. I don't think this is even possible.

emanuelbaltaretu · 8 months ago

Same here..

dylan-hurd-oai contributor · 8 months ago

Hi folks - we're actively looking into this. If you can use /feedback in the CLI when this happens or provide session ids, logs are super helpful for us to identify the root cause.

Couple of relevant questions here that also help:

Which version of the extension / cli are you using?
Are you also using Codex Cloud?
Were you operating a long-running session when rate limit usage appeared to spike?

sanjuoo7live · 8 months ago

Happening with me as well it start happening over this weekend or start of the week, where usage of 5 hour limit and weekly went to zero suddenly, it is happening from cloud codex i guess.

rlindgaard-collab · 8 months ago

Could it be a UI issue? With just a few commands my rate limit exploded to 99% weekly, and then I prompted some more, and the rate limit dropped to 95%.

coolbirdzik · 8 months ago

Could it be a UI issue? With just a few commands my rate limit exploded to 99% weekly, and then I prompted some more, and the rate limit dropped to 95%.

I think they call it a feature countdown limit

nguyenleccss361 · 8 months ago

it countdowns from 100% to 0%, instead of counts up from 0% to 100% on previously builds, kinda counter-intuitive. Why changed tho?

etraut-openai contributor · 8 months ago

Thanks for your post. We're providing updates related to this issue in this thread. I'm going to close this issue to reduce duplication.