Hi everyone, This topic is for discussing Codex limits after the move from message-based usage to token-based usage. Additionally the 2x rate limits promotion has ended and some users have reported hitting limits sooner after this change. This is the right place to compare experiences, share what …

I’m not arguing for the sake of arguing; you’re collapsing “not knowing everything” into “knowing nothing.” My claim is that AI lets people build while learning the parts they don’t yet understand, as long as they test and verify what it produces. If something actually functions, passes tests, and …

it was one of the best decisions you’ve made, i think it’s more than reasonable to allow users to spend their weekly usage however they want, a 5 hour limit doesn’t make any sense.

I guess open AI is delebrately pushing people away by squeezing the rate limits. The diff in usage quota is visible and makes very little sense, since one can’t get any work done without waiting for several 5 hours limit.

My Analytics page shows that my Codex activity today is substantially lower than many days in the prior 30 days. Historically I had multiple days at roughly 70–100% daily plan usage. Today’s activity is only around 40% on the Analytics chart, yet my freshly reset weekly allowance has fallen from 100…

I switched from medium to xhigh and my usage has dropped. But it is super obvious limits are way lower now.

I’ve done 1.4 to 2.2B token days before and now I struggle to even hit 1B before I’m down to 0% you can easily see this on the profile page. So I tried switching to astra medium and it went down even faster than it does on high/xhigh. Notice how the weekly bars get lower, and lower? Yeah, that’s wha…

Today I got a very clear example of how the current usage-limit system can completely derail real project work. I was working on a project that, under normal uninterrupted conditions, should have taken no more than about 3 hours. Because of the 5-hour limit, waiting for resets, interruptions, and c…

Which plan did you subscribe to on Claude?

I initially used Claude on the regular plan. Even with that plan, I could work at least 5–10 times longer than I could with Codex before running into usage limits. I have since upgraded to the Claude Max 5x plan, and I don’t even come close to exhausting the weekly allowance. With my fairly heavy u…

Codex Rate Limit Discussion Thread

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merefield September 13, 2026, 8:58am 752

You can use Codexometer: track your quota, usage, orchestrate sessions & benchmark models! to put a more accurate pin point on that by comparing API EQ week to week.

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