Because I don’t remember in which file it was.

Hi there!
I started using Codex this week with a Plus plan to evaluate it. Today, with just three simple code-checking tasks, involving fewer than 10,000 lines, I hit the limit three times and have only 2% of my weekly quota left. Are you experiencing this kind of abnormal usage?
I normally work with Claude, and even though its consumption is high, it doesn’t come anywhere near Codex’s usage levels. With Claude the same tasks took me 6% of my weekly…

Edit:
Just checked the usage, and today I used just 1.4M Tokens. Yesterday 14.8M with no issues. Two days ago 48M hitting the limit. Always using 5.5 at mid or high, never using fast option.

i have same error

pro , 200$
but only 5 minute work

Interesting product which seems to have become a focus for what I see as the central theme of AI tools right now which is the sustainability of the business model in the face of ever-more resource hungry tools and potentially insatiable demand!
My own problem is simple and unimportant but for what it’s worth I started to trail Codex following a prompt in ChatGPT and was progressing well with a small project to evaluate its capabilities but then hit a resource cap which means I have to wait for a month under the free access model before I get to find out enough about what it can do to justify a purchase. Looking at these pages, it seems that even if I were to pay for capacity, I might continue to have the same problems, albeit on ‘the next level up’ so to speak. As it is, I’m happy to wait for a month before continuing with my trail of Codex’s capabilities but I wondered what people thought about the wider issues here? Is AI an unsustainable bubble or if not, how will it shape up?
This is ChatGPT’s summary of the situation I encountered:
“I trialled Codex on a genuine project involving cataloguing a large photograph collection. The experience was promising, but I reached the free usage limit before I had progressed far enough to determine whether Codex was actually suitable for the task. The current free allowance seems sufficient to demonstrate the interface, but perhaps not sufficient for evaluating a non-trivial workflow.”

Oh well, seems I’m not the only one…

Previously, the five-hour usage limit for Codex on the Plus plan was at least enough to go through a few rounds of prompts.

Now, after just one prompt, the five-hour limit is gone. It feels like the processing time has become longer, but the actual amount of code written has not increased. In other words, it has become slower while consuming the usage limit faster.

Before, Codex could directly modify files, and it would clearly show which files were changed and how many lines were modified.

Now, it mostly changes content through commands, making it hard to see what was actually changed.

The sandbox is already set to sandbox_mode = "workspace-write", and the project is also set as trusted.

The frequency of prompts requiring manual authorization has also increased significantly.

Hi everyone,

I’m currently on the ChatGPT Pro 5x plan and I’m experiencing severe Codex usage drain on both my 5-hour quota and weekly quota.

What makes this confusing is that my usage was normal for the first few days after I bought Pro. Then, after OpenAI said the Codex usage-limit depletion issue was fixed, my quota started draining much faster than before. This happened after the reported fix, not before.

I was planning to upgrade to the 20x Codex usage tier next month, but now I’m hesitant because I don’t know whether this is a temporary issue or not.

I’m not running unusually large tasks compared to before. The same type of Codex work that felt normal earlier now appears to consume a disproportionate amount of both 5h window and weekly usage.

Has anyone else on Pro experienced this after the incident was marked resolved?

I would especially like to know:

• Whether others still see abnormal quota drain after the reported fix

• Whether this could be account-specific metering or rate limiting

• Whether Pro users were moved to a different Codex usage calculation recently

• Whether OpenAI Support has confirmed anything for anyone affected

I wanted to ask here because the issue directly affects whether upgrading to 20x is reliable.

I’ve swapped back to 5.4 medium when using Codex, and it’s been way better for my workflow. With 5.4, I rarely hit the rate limits, but the second I use 5.5, I lock myself out in two hours and max out my weekly cap in three days.

In my opinion, 5.5 medium is only marginally better for coding tasks. By just using plan mode on 5.4 and being a little more specific with my prompts, the gap disappears. For me, not getting locked out is worth way more than a 5% difference in thinking quality.

My 5 hour limit is still depleting very quickly. It took 10 minutes to deplete while doing a fairly heavy task, but its still very unusual to deplete that fast.

I’ve been on Plus ever since, I usually hit the 5 hour limit within 2-3 hours.

OpenAI already “resolved” the issue a couple days ago, but still no improvement.

Edit:
I switched to 5.4 model and usage is somewhat normal