I wanted to share a Codex usage issue I’ve been experiencing since 10 May 2026, in case other developers are seeing the same thing. My Codex limits appear to be getting consumed unusually fast. In my case, after only around 1 hour of light Codex usage, mostly using GPT-5.3 Codex / mini-level models,…

I’m using Business Plan and also finding abnormal token usage. Initially I thought this was due to an issue on my part, but even after explicitly trying to minimize token usage it’s still draining quickly. I’ve hit 5h limits twice today, and now only have 40% of my weekly left.

Honestly pretty disappointed with the OpenAI support experience right now. I submitted: screenshots, timestamps, usage inconsistencies, UI bugs, and even video proof showing the Codex usage tracker disappearing entirely. I also explained the logical inconsistency where my weekly l…

there is also delayed accounting. i don’t know if this is relevant for your situation but what i found solved my token drain was removing the suggestions setting or disabling the suggestions in codex app.there is another setting auto review prs or something on the codex settings on the website disa…

I’m having exactly the same issue since monday 10th indeed

I’m also seeing the same issue of unexplainable fast drains of both my weekly and 5 hour quotas. Since ~May 10, I’m seeing that I can only get 2 basic prompts executed before my 5 hour quota is completely drained. There is also ~15-20% drop in my weekly quota after the same 2 basic prompts. I lov…

I understand you. Today I was genuinely very angry and wrote about my frustration with Codex. The main issue for me is that the limit calculation system feels unfair and misleading. To use a simple analogy: the service suggests that I can work with code for up to 5 hours, but in practice I got aroun…

I think there’s an important misunderstanding here regarding the limits. The “5h limit” is not a limit where you can use Codex for only 5 hours per day. It’s actually a token/computation quota measured over a rolling 5-hour window. I initially misunderstood it the same way, especially because it’s…

Same problem, but for me, the issue was since the weekly usage recharge on May 16th I think. Before that, every 20-min task under gpt-5.5 cost about 5% of the 5-hour limit; now it costs about ~25%. Bascially I can see 1% decrease every minute or even every 30 seconds when the context window is ful…

Hello? Will there ever be someone from OpenAI looking into this? I don’t have a problem with slightly fluctuating quota usage, this has to be expected. But for a few days now the token usage absolutely exploded: Concrete example: with gpt-5.5, a single, very simple message + reply, with no (signifi…

Someone on the forum told me to just pay more :grin: They say the problem is that I bought a plan that’s too cheap. Apparently, my ambitions are too big for $20 :rofl: But then I have to ask: what are you actually supposed to build on this plan if even users on the most expensive tiers are complain…

Codex users report rapid quota drains since May 10

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LarisaHaster May 25, 2026, 4:27pm 21

Welcome to the community!

The earlier incident was fully recovered on Saturday (May, 23).

I don’t know if you also checked this topic, since this seems to be an issue for some users.

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Codex users report rapid quota drains since May 10

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