I am a long-time Codex user. As of April 28, 2026, the GPT-5.5 model seems to be draining my quota excessively. A single task (splitting a directory into four parts, ~2k lines of code in total) took 25% of my weekly limit, whereas similar tasks typically use only 2–4%. Could there be an error in how…

I’m seeing the same pattern. For context, I’m on Plus and using Codex CLI with GPT-5.5. A recent governed research-infrastructure session consumed my full 5-hour Codex window and roughly 19% of my weekly allowance. The work was not trivial at all, it involved Plan Mode because I needed careful sour…

Via the Codex CLI against my local repo. The prompt “can you please stage, commit and open a PR in accordance with our comms standard”. A fairly normal governed repo workflow: inspect branch state, read the repo GitHub ops runbook, check the change & communications standard requirements, review th…

Yes i am running through same situation. I thought i was alone!! but i see many users fac the same issue.

5.5 High drained my 5 hour limit in about 30 minutes last night and the same thing happened this morning. Same work that I was doing with the earlier models on High so I don’t think it’s something new that I am working on that is causing this. I am I am switching back to the earlier models until th…

5.3 Codex was the best model I’ve worked with. But now, even if I switch back to 5.3 Codex, it is not doing anything correctly. 5.5 consumes quota so fast with failure, 5.3 Codex consumes less quota with more failure. Changing model back to 5.3 Codex just causes more repetition for the same task wit…

Yesterday my engineers drained all 13 business accounts that we have within half day. Then i allowed them API access. Take a look how much did one task costed for us with GPT5.4 model on Medium reasoning. 8$ for 1 TASK! This is absolutely nuts. We are most probably going to leave Codex, this is b…

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001106-codex-rate-card I had no idea this was even updated. This doesn’t seem balanced at all to me

[image] serkanozturkweb: I am a long-time Codex user. As of April 28, 2026, the GPT-5.5 model seems to be draining my quota excessively. A single task (splitting a directory into four parts, ~2k lines of code in total) took 25% of my weekly limit, whereas similar tasks typically use only 2–4%. C…

I’m seeing Codex in VS Code drain the 5-hour and weekly limits very quickly again around May 3–4. After the April 28 reset, usage felt reasonable for a few days, but now normal coding prompts are consuming quota much faster again. My workflow has not changed at all: same VS Code setup, same type of…

I haven’t used Codex in two days, including today, yet my quota is still draining while idle. The weekly quota decreased by 1% and the 5-hourly by 4% without any activity.

GPT 5.5 Codex Quota Drains Quickly

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JordanDavis July 11, 2026, 8:09pm 21

Take a look at my comment here on how to fix: Why is token usage in Codex increasing so quickly now?

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GPT 5.5 Codex Quota Drains Quickly

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