Did any one notice way higher than expected token consumption report in api usage with gpt 5.5 today (Apr 28). My dashboard suggests that when using codex I used 95 Million tokens input, 25 Million cached input to produce 600K output tokens!!?? I did not use codex for such intense work, and the ou…

Hey @kurlytail, yeah, that spike would feel pretty off, especially with that input to output ratio. There’s actually been some discussion around usage reporting, you might find this thread helpful: Codex Rate Limits Discussion Thread . A few folks are comparing notes there and sharing what they’re se…

Hey guys, you have to fix the issue ASAP. Don’t play the same games as Anthropic, please.

The most I was able to do before was to hit my weekly limit after 6 days which felt pretty reasonable to me. Now with using GPT 5.5 (they even buried 5.3 Codex in another submenu drop down together with touting using fewer tokens with 5.5 so i did switch to using 5.5) I managed to hit my weekly limi…

I’ve also experienced this problem .Our token usage has gone up 5 fold with 5.5.

Hi. Guys this should be fixed asap. I used it for like 5 mins and its gone. I was in gpt-5.4 high fast

It just burns the token so much faster since the beggining of the week. Last week it was still fine. But this week it really run dry extremely fast. And the “5h limit’” is disappearing in 30 mins.

Yes, I agree with you. Today I also submitted a complaint because I believe Codex is misleading its users and basically robbing them. The interface says “5 hours of work,” but in real use with a serious project, that limit can be burned through in about an hour. So “5 hours per month” does not feel …

its true. i am feeling the same thing.

There seems to have been an issue with Codex 26.513.31313 Looks like they patched it in 26.513.40821 Unfortunately its seems to have consumed tokens and highly accelerated rate. Is there plan to do a reset?

High token consumption with codex and 5.5

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Dakshk May 6, 2026, 11:10am 3

Codex 5.5 is consuming tokens as if its drinking gasoline even at thinking medium
Openai should seriously look into this problem
Either come up with a codex version or decrease the token consumption

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High token consumption with codex and 5.5

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