We're currently experiencing high demand, which may cause temporary errors.
Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Dec 16, 2025 by nelyajizi Closed Dec 16, 2025
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor)
responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.
What version of Codex is running?
codex-cli 0.73.0
What subscription do you have?
PRO
Which model were you using?
5.2 XHIGH
What platform is your computer?
_No response_
What issue are you seeing?
We're currently experiencing high demand, which may cause temporary errors.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Uploaded thread: 019b2804-0a97-7dc2-a2a2-5f928fcb962f
What is the expected behavior?
_No response_
Additional information
_No response_
2 Comments
This is likely related to #8120. The team is actively investigating. I'll post updates to that issue as they become available.
I've also been having this for.... 30 to 60 minutes, ish.
"We're currently experiencing high demand, which may cause temporary errors."
Reddit post ~55m ago
OpenAI Status - https://status.openai.com/ now:
"Codex Experiencing Elevated Errors
Identified
·
Degraded performance
We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services.
We are working on implementing a mitigation.
Tue, 16 Dec 2025, 18:45
(1 hour ago)
·
View all updates
Affected components
18:45
Now
18:57
ChatGPT
1 affected component
Codex"