We're currently experiencing high demand, which may cause temporary errors.

Resolved 💬 10 comments Opened Nov 17, 2025 by guidedways Closed Mar 29, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What version of Codex is running?

0.58.0

What subscription do you have?

Pro

Which model were you using?

gpt-5.1-codex high

What platform is your computer?

macOS

What issue are you seeing?

I've noticed around this time of day, I'm either hit with weird bugs where the model suddenly becomes unavailable or this:

■ We're currently experiencing high demand, which may cause temporary errors.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

It should automatically retry though, no?

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.

  • #6325
  • #6296
  • #4983
  • #5130
  • #5679

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etraut-openai contributor · 7 months ago

Were you using the OpenAI endpoint when this occurred, or were you using Azure?

guidedways contributor · 7 months ago

@etraut-openai just the normal codex CLI with a ChatGPT pro subscription (personal account) so I suppose OpenAI?

wbdb · 7 months ago

@etraut-openai Here is the same error with Codex 0.64.0 & WSL2 - used via the ChatGPT Business Account.

Could be related to: https://status.openai.com/incidents/01KBHVXKVF77A6CB8CX96BY4R6

etraut-openai contributor · 3 months ago

This bug report hasn't received any upvotes or additional posts in three months. Closing.

pauldenisevich · 3 months ago

Having the same issue with the VSC Codex extension. Any fix?

yanhao-wang · 3 months ago

i was using Codex CLI and just encountered the same issue.

5FBSU4M · 2 months ago
Were you using the OpenAI endpoint when this occurred, or were you using Azure?

Azure , thanks

5FBSU4M · 2 months ago

I remove .codex/session* , and codex normal , is this bind session ? I lost codex resume xxxx

DoctorFFF · 1 month ago

解决方法如下,使用环境windows11 cc switch codex desktop
出现这个问题往往是上下文过大出现的,这个时候往往是需要压缩上下文的步骤出现错误,直接不走newapi代理 使用cpa 这种疑难杂症都没了,然后检查一下newapi的速率限制,还有敏感词过滤,我感觉是触发了速率限制了我等会测试一下