Three days ago, my remaining weekly balance was around 35% with two days left (Plus plan). I had planned to work a bit more on the last day so I could seamlessly continue with the new interest rate next week. But yesterday (without using codex), my weekly interest was reset, and the weekly count started again from scratch. Why is this happening? I feel like I’m being cheated. Where did my remaining 35% go? This current system is unfortunately very strange and incomprehensible. Perhaps someone has an idea why this is happening?
Hi!
The Codex rate limits were reset early this week to celebrate reaching 4 million Codex users.
I’m not sure why this feels unfair to you. From my perspective, an early rate limit reset is strictly better than not getting one?
I feel completely lost when it comes to rate limits.
I follow the rate limits in Codex, and I don’t have Twitter. How am I supposed to know about the reset?
Since the rate limit changes som eweeks ago, I have to plan when and how I can work on my free projects. It’s just insane.
It feels like there are some strange changes every week that I can’t understand, and there’s absolutely no clear communication about it.
Yes, I completely understand.
I had to add Twitter to my daily reading list just to keep up with the developments, and that was definitely not on my bucket list for 2026.
In any case, there is this ongoing string of events where the Codex rate limits get reset whenever a major bug is fixed or the user base grows by another million users.
Hope this helps!
Btw wtf is Tibo? Why in any case i should follow people i don’t know on shady platforms like twitter?
AI Images like the one from this Tibo guy I absolutely oversee…
Please work on your communication. TY
Noted.
I forwarded this as a feature request to share relevant updates in the app directly.
It is subtle subterfuge.
Let’s say I said “hi” to Codex 4 days ago. I start a 5 day window.
I then want to do the remaining 99% today and another 100% tomorrow.
I am deprived of that, and now have to wait five days.
A rate limit reset doesn’t automatically equate to a good thing. If someone has usage planned out already for the week it might be problematic. From what I noticed, the rate limit didn’t simply reset. The ‘start of week’ reset as well. It would be one thing if the rate reset while the timer didn’t reset to the beginning of the week.
For example, if someone didn’t use any of their rate for the first 3 days because they knew that they would need all of it for the last 4 days of the week, resetting the rate usage as well as the clock could be a problem.
If they expected to use all 100% of their usage in those 4 days, but then also anticipated the rate would be reset after that fourth day, then all is well. But, they already had 100% rate left and didn’t need (would not benefit from) a rate reset. Now, they still need to use their 100% weekly rate in, what was, the last 4 days. But now, those last 4 days aren’t really the last 4 days. They are now first 4 days of the week, and the rate usage is completely spent. Once they burn through their allowed rate, they still have 3 days before the next reset, meaning they can’t use Codex for 3 more days.
So, forced reset != good in all situations, UNLESS you are resetting the rate limit without resetting the timer.
_j Regular and ThisIsWhereWeAre, yes, you two lovely people described it a bit better than I did. That’s exactly the problem. I have to plan extremely carefully when and how I can work, and if this gets “reset,” and I also lose potential tokens, that’s not helpful. I’m not a teenager with all the time in the world. I need to plan.
Thank you.
I agree that communication should be more transparent.
I cannot agree to the statement that a rate limit reset is bad. Especially if the goal is to spend all of these tokens anyways.
Are you all sure this is not partly a control issue?
If I sit down to carefully plan around limited resources, only to find out later that the planning was unnecessary because there was a free, unexpected reset, I may end up regretting the time spent planning instead of simply being satisfied with getting something for free.
Thank you for your time and understanding. Here is an analogy: If I receive wood from my supplier twice a week, I can manage my time so that I process all the wood for the week in one day. I only have one day to process it. This works, but of course it would be better if I had more wood, but then I would have to take time away from other projects. That’s manageable if I coordinate with others. However, if two or three deliveries arrive in one day, I can’t process everything as planned. I have to reschedule; I have too much wood that I can’t process. I can’t just leave 35% of the wood and deal with it later (because then even more wood will arrive). I have to burn all the wood that I can’t process. It simply burns.
Edit for clarification..
Is there a counter of users somewhere we can keep an eye on?
^.^
Seems like we went from 3 million to 4 million in about 1 week 
Just to be clear, I’m a big fan of Codex, but I’m dissatisfied with the communication and the way things are currently handled. I wish there was a Plus+ version for €49 with 2.5x Plus.