CODEX LIMITS - FINALLY GOOD after April 1st reset

Not sure whether anyone has noticed, but March 27 and April 1st we have had CODEX Credits reset. Between March 28 and March 30 it was absolute insanity, i run multiple Business accounts for a team and i was shocked that 5H rates went within few tasks, and weekly within half day.

Thank you OPEN AI for taking this matter seriously and fairly. 2 complete resets within short term.

Finally after using it now on (April 1st 2026) i want to say that this now finally looking really well and normal(fair). I already did like 30+ really deep tasks and was not able to hit 5H usage. On top of that weekly limits went down really realistically. Im normally mostly using GPT 5.4 and 5.3-Codex.

Based on my usage (heavy) - i would assume i can push weekly limits for roughly 2-3 days which makes total sense based how heavy my tasks are.

My point of this topic is to give a review to OpenAI team. Finally this is real and normal and it should stay that way. I hope you Open AI team can forward this feedback.

I hope everyone else have noticed differences since April 1st reset.

I am Business account + API user. But here i spoke about Business account user Codex credits.

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Hi and welcome to the community!

In case you are interested, here’s the explanation for the reset:

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Thanks for update! Great to hear - and as i mentioned above, it really feels great now. I can see that team can really develop fairly. Completed tasks vs credit usage is super good now.

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I’m still seeing really crazy credit usage - a simple bug fix just ate up like 25% of my 5 hour usage which was super confusing. Anybody else still having issues?

I might be seeing the same. I started using Codex about 4 weeks ago on the Plus plan, and throughout that time until the last day or so, I never needed to check my usage. It felt unlimited, but it was for a small mobile app, so maybe I wasn’t pushing Codex as hard as I thought I was. In the last 2 days, I have blown the 5 hour limit very quickly and it felt like something has definitely changed. Last night it dropped from 100% to 91% in 7 minutes and I cannot think how I had not hit a limit before. I do see that Codex is now defaulting to use 5.4 rather than 5.3 which I was pleased about when I noticed. but now I’m not so sure. I have been using Medium thinking throughout. I’m using the Mac App. Could it be to do with the thread getting very large? I’ve now moved to a new thread.