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Codex Resets
- yewenjie 3mo agoIs Claude also doing something like this? I saw my Fable limit resetting earlier than expected.
- zwily 3mo agoIt did once. That's all I know of though. Nothing like Codex.
- shard972 3mo ago[dead]
- PacificSpecific 3mo agoI've had this too on my personal pro plan and also when I run the usage command it says it's resetting tomorrow rather than getting cut off. I'm trying to squeeze what I can in the meantime but I feel like they said it was getting cut off multiple times and they keep extending and possibly resetting it (havent been looking close enough to know for sure)
- rovr138 3mo agoThey had an issue yesterday that said Fable needed extra usage. I’m guessing they’re getting ready.
- tekacs 3mo agohttps://x.com/claudeai/status/2078302415804379218 https://x.com/claudeai/status/2078302415804379218 No, they've been clear about the fact that Fable is staying in indefinitely now. They also extended the 50% extra usage thing through to August 19.
- viccis 3mo agoLooks like no Fable for Pro. Will likely be cancelling my Pro account.
- nullbio 3mo agoNope. Anthropic is incredibly greedy and always has been.
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- usef- 3mo agoThey're far shorter of GPUs, apparently. OpenAI made huge hardware deals last year (which look less crazy now).
- nzeid 3mo agoForgive my ignorance... Usage limits reset for 100% of customers at the same instant?
- jrflo 3mo agoOriginally yes, everyone's usage limit went back to 100% at the same time regardless of if you were at 0% or 99%. Now they tend to give out "banked" resets where users can choose when to use it for up to a month (except the most recent one, which I think was non-banked)
- minimaxir 3mo agoOver the last 2 weeks, 6 of the resets are direct to the usage limit. In the same timeframe, 2 additional resets were banked.
- ipsum2 3mo agoThey realized the banked resets were too expensive, so they stopped giving those out for the last 2 resets.
- damsta 3mo agoAre they more expensive? I think it's a clever tactic that avoids sudden increased workload, because users may "save" their resets when they need some additional work done.
- herpdyderp 3mo agoMy next question is: why? Purely marketing tactics?
- behnamoh 3mo agoHow long is this gonna last? OpenAI obviously is doing it to gain mindshare but they're burning money before their IPO and can't sustain these resets. They've bought a lot of dev goodwill tho, which matters I guess.
- thehamkercat 3mo agoThey also got a lot of goodwill by letting people use codex subscription in any harness they want, anywhere they want
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- jrflo 3mo agoI think it's mostly to spread hype for the new models. Sol can be ridiculously long running, even without /goal so it can run for 12hr+ on a problem with defined and verifiable output. So it's a good way for people to get hyped about the capabilities without worrying about usage limits.
- doawoo 3mo agocoworker tried Sol the other day and it sat and thought for 10 minutes before maxing out our company's per-user weekly limit lol
- trollbridge 3mo agoSol is really not optmised for corporate plans. The sane way to use it is via a personal subscription.
- ssl-3 3mo agoAre Codex users even a drop in the bucket of overall use? I mean, it's a pretty specific way to interact with the bot. Codex usage is clearly common enough to have entered the vernacular of folks here on HN. But we aren't everyone, and it seems likely to me that there's a lot more people in the world burning tokens using ChatGPT than there are who even know what Codex is.
- mvkel 3mo ago> 5 days ago: 7M users > 4 days ago: 8M users > 3 days ago: 9M users That's some incredible growth.
- lekevicius 3mo agotbf they turned previous ChatGPT macOS app into Codex, so getting a "new" Codex user might mean someone using ChatGPT just updated their app.
- an0malous 3mo agoI don’t even know what Codex is anymore and at this point I’m too afraid to ask. I remember the days when it was a VSCode extension. Didn’t they also name their new hardware product Codex?
- brookst 3mo agoYes, they’re following the Microsoft strategy of “if you name everything Copilot, you can report high Copilot usage”
- woadwarrior01 3mo agoTo me, it's the cli.
- ozgung 3mo agoNumbers are for Codex AND ChatGPT Work users. So if a ChatGPT subscriber tries Work tab they must be counted as a new active user. So it’s not like 1M new developers daily.
- sebjones 3mo agoI was thinking about this. How do they measure this? Every upgrade of the ChatGPT apps get counted?
- rvz 3mo agoThey just merged the ChatGPT app and the Codex app into one super app. It is a clever growth hack.
- sva_ 3mo agoCompare to Anthropic who consistently do their resets between Thursday and Friday, somewhat alienating people who have their resets around that time.
- perching_aix 3mo agoOh, they have free drops too? I guess dual wielding the two $20 subs is the best value option right now then.
- trollbridge 3mo agoAnthropic has been like this for a while, although in their latest announcement, the $20 tier won't have the "cheap" access to Fable, and neither will the $100 tier.
- bottlepalm 3mo agoIt’s like two parents fighting over their children with who can give them the most gifts. I’m loving it, two Christmases!!
- sumedh 3mo agoAnt is not giving lot of gifts though :(
- paxys 3mo agoBeing able to use Fable with subscription plans is a gift.
- bottlepalm 3mo agoMy /usage is telling me '+50% weekly limits promo through Aug 19' - that's huge, and better than what I'm getting with the equivalent Codex plan I have right now. Though what Codex does have over Claude is Sol /fast - that hands down is the best coding experience right now.
- denysvitali 3mo agoFWIW, this was announced before the day where the +50% limit promotion from May was supposed to end, so effectively continuing the promotion. This will mean that you retain the same usage instead of seeing it drop. I guess if they'd reduce the usage in their current stage they'll only lose customers - this is not a perk, it's damage control. https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15910845-claude-code-may-august-2026-weekly-limits-promotion https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15910845-claude-code-...
- brookst 3mo agoAnt has quota resets two or three times a month, at least for me.
- huey77 3mo agoCrazy value for money now with the banked resets. At my $COMPANY, we have claude enterprise at API pricing. I've blown through $10k already this month, opting for Opus 4.8 w/ Sonnet 5 agents where possible. On my codex pro plan, I am 5.6 sol'ing my way everyday with the odd ultra mode. Point being my real API usage here must be very unsustainable!
- on_the_train 3mo agoHere it's only Microsoft (ghcp) allowed, and 39$ per month is considered ludicrous with no way to increase. Ah Europe
- Tiberium 3mo agoAPI pricing itself might have extreme margins compared to the real cost. Anyway, in my testing the Pro 20x $200 plan gives you about $2200 API-equivalent weekly usage if you're only using GPT 5.6 Sol, so quite close to $9k-$10k/month API-equivalent, it's a bit inconsistent with cache costs. It's very interesting that for Anthropic the $100 and $200 plans only differ 2x in weekly limits, the 5 hour limit differences are more severe. But for OpenAI, Pro 20x is, well, 4x of Pro 5x for only 2x cost. So, for example, 100% of weekly usage for Codex on a Plus ($20) account is just 5% of weekly usage for Codex on Pro 20x. And you can calculate how much extra usage you can get from resets, and especially banked resets by purposefully using the whole quota and using your banked reset - they expire 30 days after they're given out, so if you don't use one, it just disappears.
- loufe 3mo agoEdit: The $200 plan is explicitly 4x the $100 plan[1] only for "per session". That's so vague. I initially pushed back against your claim, but reading now Anthropic is not at all clear, in fact. [1] https://support.claude.com/en/articles/11049741-what-is-the-max-plan https://support.claude.com/en/articles/11049741-what-is-the-...
- jdw64 3mo agoI love Codex!
- somewhereoutth 3mo agoSo... basically watching them set fire to money in realtime??
- p-e-w 3mo agoAnd they can’t stop because they want to IPO soon, and stopping this madness would signal loudly that they are bleeding cash, don’t really have a business model, and might not be worth $2 trillion after all.
- kubb 3mo agoYup! Big beautiful burning pile of cash. Though there’s some nuance with subsidizing inference (which is supposed to make them money long term) vs training (which we’re supposed to ignore I guess).
- malshe 3mo agoWe lose money on every sale, but make it up in volume
- trollbridge 3mo agoTo be fair, they're motivating me to move from the Pro to the Max tier (the $200 one, which has 4X the usage of Pro for 2X the price).
- irfan_99 3mo agoai tools now becoming expensive + too rate limits even on paid plans
- throwitaway222 3mo agoConfirmed, was at 40% earlier, now at 90%
- freakynit 3mo agoI didn't knew about these resets up until a few days back... and every time they used to reset these limits, I thought I was going crazy... the usage numbers just didn't match. And the weekly end window just kept pushing ahead by a day or a few... just the right amount of deviation to make you believe you are going crazy.
- Tiberium 3mo agoTo be fair, when they reset usage for everyone (instead of a banked reset), they move your reset back a week later, so: 1. Your window ends (usage reset) in 3 days 2. They reset usage for everyone 3. Your usage goes back to 100% and your current window ends in 7 days now.
- freakynit 3mo agoyea... it doesnt matter how much you have used.. they just shift it by entire week with 100% refill. Crazy!
- nickandbro 3mo agoGreat now what about one for Claude Code?
- midnightbobarun 3mo agoI'm kind of impressed how often they manage to do this. Claude Code and Grok Build do resets too, but nowhere near this often. And in an ironic twist for a big company with the infrastructure, Google Antigravity never seems to do resets like this at all (at least that I've noticed). I wonder how much this stuff costs OpenAI to do?
- enraged_camel 3mo agoThey can do it often because they have compute, and they have compute mostly because they are pretty far behind Anthropic when it comes to heavy enterprise users. They’ve supposedly added several million since 5.6 launch, which is a steep growth curve. We will see if those users stick around. Anecdotally, I’ve stopped using it for anything major because it has attempted to do some very unsafe things when I wasn’t looking. Friends I’ve talked to have also gotten over the initial honeymoon period.
- vineyardmike 3mo agoThey (OpenAI) also made many more deals to acquire compute before they actually had the revenue to support it. They paraded around the world making deals with everyone and anyone. By doing it earlier, they got way better unit prices. Anthropic bought their compute at significantly higher prices by waiting until they actually had demand to fulfill.
- Kwpolska 3mo agoI’m not sure if resets require that much compute, maybe a few whales will use the service a bit more right after a reset. What matters more is the money, as they’re giving away free usage, and subsidising subscription users even more.
- d1sxeyes 3mo agoIt’s a false idea that a reset “gives you more”. You don’t get any more tokens post reset than before. If you were consuming faster than your allowance before the reset then you probably end up with some free usage, but most people are not likely so far over their pro-rata limit that it’s a huge cost for OpenAI. What it does incentivise is pushing more usage in case there’s a reset-generating additional demand. Probably sounds good in the boardroom that token consumption is up X% this quarter. Unlikely to last forever, but for now the goal is to beat Anthropic. Up until the Mythos/Fable debacle, I’d have said Anthropic were leading, but if you’ll forgive the pun, I think they flew to close to the sun, and when Sol came out, they’d shot their “Mythos/Fable” shot and it turned out to be… good, but not revolutionary.
- minimaxir 3mo agoI really wish there was a canonical platform endpoint to programmatically check Codex usage amount and the quota reset times so I could just vibecode an app to alert "hey, your usage just went to 100% so that means OpenAI did a reset" and "hey, your 5-hour usage is at 10%, wrap up what you're doing". The only way to do it now is through shenanigans with the Codex App Server which is not ideal.
- ehsanu1 3mo agoCheck this site for the first part? Maybe they can offer a notifications API, hah.
- qntmfred 3mo agoI keep this bookmarked and check it frequently https://chatgpt.com/codex/cloud/settings/analytics https://chatgpt.com/codex/cloud/settings/analytics
- usagisushi 3mo agoThe API endpoints on this page accept an OAuth token from ~/.codex/auth.json. You can simply ask Codex to create a report skill with some curl examples.
- folkrav 3mo agoOrrrr... He could just as well click the link he has bookmarked already, and see it with his own eyes, without the token use to report on his token use.
- usagisushi 3mo agoA recursive way to burn the tokens.
- ssl-3 3mo agoThe 5h limit is gone (for now). It does not presently need to be chased. :) For the automated checking of other stuff: It was a one-shot prompt to get Codex clank up some Python that returns remaining usage, next reset time/date, and so on. The result does use Codex App Server, but it's a short-lived process that is dealt with over stdio so that's... fine-ish, I guess?
- sumedh 3mo agoOpenAI should have just focussed on Coding instead of wasting time with Sora.
- dbbk 3mo agoWell yeah they realised that
- qntmfred 3mo agoI'd enable push notifications for this site
- wonderfuly 3mo agoThis feature has just been added!
- Lwrless 3mo agoThose resets and the removal of the 5-hour usage limit are quietly anchoring me to a much higher usage baseline. I've stopped rationing and just spawn a bunch of agents to work at whatever pace I want, because there always seem to be more resets on the way (at least true for the last week). And now I am actually worried about that if one day they just stop doing so, my "normal" workflow will suddenly exceed the limit, and upgrading will feel like a step backwards.
- sebjones 3mo agoAll these resets are given because of rival competition. When they win the market, we are going to be squeezed $$$.
- trollbridge 3mo agoIf they try to engage in monopolistic pricing, I'll simply start paying for GLM-5.2, K3, DeepSeek et al.
- dom3k 3mo agoI cannot recommend enough OpenCode Go, which for 10 bucks a month lets you use all of them with pretty hefty limits. Use it while it lasts
- trollbridge 3mo ago$5 with a referral code for the first month. You get $60 worth of usage. It’s too good to be true, yet it is.
- lwansbrough 3mo agoCan anyone explain how you “win” the market of super intelligence? Particularly with open weights models now rivaling the frontier, it seems like a race to the bottom even if the prices don’t yet reflect that.
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- dofm 3mo agoCasino comp and drug dealer freebie tactics again. Shoddy business, IMO.
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- fomoz 3mo agoThis is a useful site. I've been enjoying the resets, plus I had 3 resets I haven't used. Just using 5.6 Sol in Fast mode the whole time, 1B tokens per day. However, when they removed the 5h limit they also quietly lowered the 5.6 Sol context from 354k to 258k or something like that. I noticed it in Codex.
- dannyw 3mo agoThere were a few tweets about it so they weren't super quiet about it. I think you can get it back by setting `model_context_window=YOUR_VALUE` in ~/.codex/config.toml though.
- thejazzman 3mo agoIt no longer works and only respects a server supplied value now
- d-yoda 3mo agoAnthropic would say that's exactly why they're in the red.
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- sim04ful 3mo agoI'm starting to think It might be a good idea to stay with American models, by virtue of them feeling so threatened they give out more and more free perks.
- lelanthran 3mo ago> I'm starting to think It might be a good idea to stay with American models, by virtue of them feeling so threatened they give out more and more free perks. If you keep staying with them, they'd feel less and less threatened. You need to use them about half as much as you do a Chinese model so that the usage stats that get collected show them that they are still losing users (and attention) to the Chinese models.
- JoheyDev888 3mo agohese resets are a trap. They're artificially anchoring our workflows to a massive baseline, trapping us for the inevitable 5x price hike when the market finally consolidates.
- setnone 3mo agoi just need one more, the last one, i swear
- monster_truck 3mo agoI stopped paying for Codex because of this shit. "Whoops we burned a week of 20x usage in minutes because we fucked up the cache again. You can keep paying money to get more resets to fix it" nah, I'll use open models. Only way I'd use codex now is if it was free, and I don't mean someone else paying for it. I would rather have them pay for DSv4P or Kimi
- afro88 3mo agoWhen did that happen with Codex? I thought that was a Claude Code thing
- monster_truck 3mo agoCheck the github issues brother, search for "usage". Read through the noise. Look at the dates. Don't forget the closed ones. It's been happening every week since 5.2 was fresh. Not everyone is effected every time. Sometimes it's regional, other times it's per platform, or per version, with a feature (new or old) either enabled or disabled, or some combination of these things. Sometimes you get resets that nobody else does, other times you don't get the ones that were announced. Sometimes you get emails telling you that boosts on limits you didn't even know you had are expiring. At points it did balance out when they really fucked up metering and were underbilling by absurd factors, but that feels more like being toyed with and experimented on than a genuine mistake. That someone had the 'brilliant' idea to add banked resets (which do expire, so you have to use or lose them, hope you didn't have other plans) says to me that they are no longer as confident about actually being able to fix this as they once were. I'm sure some amount of it is a function of compute availability and reliability, but the rest are definitely issues with the app and it's a rake they keep stomping on. Compared to just about any other dev centric service I have paid at least $200/mo for, this does not feel very professional to me. They got $1200 outta me and it never really improved. At points I felt like I was getting my moneys worth, and I did burn through a few hundred million tokens, but the frustration of having your projects and plans interrupted and having to wait is not awesome... and then I used Deepseek V4 Pro and felt sick to my stomach with buyers remorse as I watched what it did with just $10.
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- edumucelli 3mo agoAlso the fact that now you can keep unused resets and use them later is a big advantage: "You have 4 usage limit resets available".
- johnnyApplePRNG 3mo agoCareful with those, they expire. I just had one randomly delete the other day. No, they don't apply it :/
- bazzingadev 3mo agoCan this made into a public api of sorts so that my agents know ?
- ucha 3mo agoWhy add a middleman when you can ask your own account with /usage?
- nsbk 3mo agoThis feels a lot like free spins in slot machines. I have a friend obsessed with using up all the Fable usage which supposedly ends today. He's doing a lot of stuff of questionable usefulness just because it's a resource perceived as scarce.
- d1sxeyes 3mo agoPermafable got announced earlier this week, but definitely the slot machine feel is real.
- chrisshroba 3mo agoWhat do you mean by Permafable?
- jodacola 3mo ago"Beginning July 20, Claude Fable 5 will be included in all Max and Team Premium plans, at 50% of limits. Pro and Team Standard users will continue to have access to Fable via usage credits, and will receive a one-time $100 credit. Demand for Fable has been challenging to predict, which is why we rolled it out to subscription plans in stages, extending access several times as we secured additional capacity." [0] [0] https://x.com/claudeai/status/2078302415804379218 https://x.com/claudeai/status/2078302415804379218
- Citizen_Lame 3mo agoI am assuming he means that Fable will remain part of the subscription plans going forward, but only for Max and Team Premium plans. For other plans it will be available via credits only.
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- inigyou 3mo agoAI in general is a slot machine and it wouldn't surprise me if that was a large part of the psychosis. You prompt the lever, watch the display spin, and sometimes, just sometimes, a bunch of coins come out.
- jasonvorhe 3mo ago> No schedule. No changelog. Only the feed. We watch it so you don't have to. Using genai for such a bland text. The slop intensifies.
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- __alexander 3mo agoI just learned the hard way that codex removes resets once the weekly cycle starts.
- denysvitali 3mo agoNo, it doesn't (AFAIK), but resets do expire
- theoneone 3mo agoyou should periodically feed the data to chatgpt to try to predict the next reset!
- zuzululu 3mo agoreally need one soon .... gpt sol used up all my banked resets
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- hirvi74 3mo agoNot to veer to far off topic, but do any of you long-term Codex users happen to know how long the Codex Resets can be banked for? I can find no indications of an expiration date in the TUI or on the Web App. From what I have searched, I have been getting somewhat mixed answers. Anyway, I do appreciate how OpenAI seems to be far more generous with these resets than other providers. I've never come close to needing a reset yet. I have some tasks that I have been procrastinating, so my need for my resets might come in handy in the near future.