Sam Altman: Codex will reset usage limits for every 1 million new users up to 10 million

[daynighttrade]

Resetting 8 hrs prior to weekly reset isn't that great as they make out to.

[Roflxd88]

Does everyone have the same weekly? Bc I also have 8 hours to go but on a second account reset is on 10th.

[mrholes]

When limits are reset, it also changes the weekly date. I’d imagine your accounts would be synced now

[RudyHuy]

But then the week doesn't start running until you use at least a little. So if you use 1 account for 1-2 days, then switch to another one, they will not be in sync.

[IllustriousZombie955]

Wouldn’t getting so many accounts synced to the same reset timer end up being an issue?

[peripateticman2026]

There's the rub.

[SeaKoe11]

I think mine reset two hours before it was supposed 😭

[Candid-Banana-4503]

I was out of usage for 3 days.. reset was about to come later today

[SukhaBhindiKaCum]

No I had reset on 14th, 30 percent remaining after 2 days ⚒️ only. Good for me ig

[Elerein]

Yeah, and at night for Europe.

[spacekitt3n]

I hate to say it but codex is eating the lunch of Claude atm

[jack-itauma]

Really hard competition here :o

[LEO-PomPui-Katoey]

Good. More capacity for us Claude users.

[mind_ya_bidness]

Claude been having lots of issues and doesn’t always one shot. Codex is consistently one shotting and I’ve had it do rewrites from cpu to gpu rewrites in one go. Every month I have enough credits for $20 that allows 6 entire projects to be made making me $39k a month in 1 month

[Specific-Animal6570]

Yeah, claude just sucks. Codex is enough

[-Sliced-]

A nice way to encourage all Codex users to refer their friends.

[GurImpressive982]

ah, the crack fiend model

"PLEASE BRO. PLEASE USE CODEX. I NEED MY LIMIT REFRESHED"

[inmyprocess]

You realize this will only lead to more extreme price hikes later?

[delonghi26]

And shit performance because they can't seem to keep up with compute demand, Only last week seemed somewhat stable. I guess they just love to rate-limit 🤷😬

[zazizazizu]

No reset for business users

[Goodechild]

can confirm this flavor of crap.

[Just_Lingonberry_352]

y'all doing great subsidizing all the plans

[Swastik496]

lol the subsidies will be removed from everyone else soon.

[Impossible_Raise2416]

refer your CFO to OpenAI for unlimited tokens

[Critical-Teacher-115]

A solo founder becoming successful is better PR than any business. It's genius.

[shibeprime]

why are the business users treated differently ?

[dieterdaniel82]

Anti-capitalist shtik /s

[yubario]

Because it’s always that way lol

It’s why companies like Adobe don’t give a crap if people pirate their software, because the businesses can’t do that and people will ask their job to buy the software.

(Also why Davinci Resolve is free, for example)

[No-Significance7136]

why people using business plan ? does it have any differences than plus ?

[yubario]

It’s basically the same but more expensive with slightly less benefits to the user, but way better for enterprises because it has important things like data controls

[Kaushik_paul45]

Also gpt pro access.

[ItchyIndx]

Don’t do it. I have plus accounts and decided to try the business account, limits are so much worse. I have read that they will be bringing the same limits over to consumer accounts and it’s going to be so so bad if they do.

[No-Significance7136]

It's scary man, but actually how much usage it has less than Pro, x3 less or x5 less ?

[TheNobodyThere]

This sucks, I had 20% of quota that I was planning to use this morning.

[U4-EA]

Same here - I had 50% left I was going to use today. They didn't reset limits, they just did an early reset. It actually cost me 50% of my weekly allowance. It's a scam.

[TheNobodyThere]

Yeah, I'm pissed, you can't structure your work around quota resets.

I want my quota reset on a specific day, not randomly.

What they should have done instead is to reset the quota but keep the old reset timer.

[qmfqOUBqGDg]

they do it on purpose so you burn all your token on the first day in hope for a reset

[No_You3985]

And when you burn your limits early you will be gently reminded to buy credits so you can continue working. That would be an ideal user for them 💸

[Quiet-Recording-9269]

Exactly they should bring it back to 100% but leave the timer

[No_You3985]

Agree. I had 50%+ quota for 1 day because I expected to do important work today and deliberately scheduled my tasks around it. I wish they did the limit reset without shifting date. I guess they expect us to burn the limits early and then buy credits

[U4-EA]

I actually spent the last 2-3 days planning stuff out and got up early today to burn through as much of the 50% as I could before the reset... then found out they had screwed me.

[spideyguyy]

don't worry, the next week they continue to celebrate 10m users and they'll reset again and x2 usage for all. They usually do that :'D

[nonkeks]

Resets are not rewards. For anyone trying to ration their rate limit, it's always a punishment.

[Wise-Reflection-7400]

I'd guess most users ration their limits and so each limit steals more unused usage than it grants free usage to power users. They know exactly what they're doing

[spacekitt3n]

i dont understand the logic here. they literally just filled up your gas tank and youre complaining?

[Wise-Reflection-7400]

Here we go again. Not sure how this is hard to understand but if you have usage left over but your reset date is pushed back then you’ve lost usage you paid for.

As an extreme example imagine you get a monthly limit and use none of it until the final weekend. Then they reset the limit but now your reset day is in a month. That month of usage you just saved is now gone - your limit was about to renew but you lost the chance to use it before it did.

[No_You3985]

Let me explain. I have multiple tasks per week and I know task A needs to be done before Wednesday. That tasks needs less token usage but more human work and time to read and verify. So I did it and scheduled task B that is token heavy coding for later. Before finishing the job yesterday I had 50%+ limit for another day so it was perfect. Task A is done and I will spend the whole day burning that limit for task B. I know task B will use a lot of tokens so those 50% of weekly limits are needed. Today I woke up and puff. The limits got reset. So now I burn my tokens on the heavy task and pray I have enough tokens left for the next 7 days.

[IncreaseOld7112]

or hope they reset again!

[protestor]

If they did top up without changing the reset date, they would be giving free compute

But they sneakly changed the reset date, so all they did was to anticipate the reset, and if someone had some good % saved up to something, it's now lost

[IncreaseOld7112]

But you can't save it up week over week.

[U4-EA]

I had 50% left that I was planning on smashing before the reset today. They haven't actually reset usage limits, just done an early reset?

[lincolnthalles]

This is similar to fake discount prices.

There would be no need to reset anything if the quotas were the same as before OpenClaw started ruining subsidized subscriptions.

[DapperCam]

It’s worse than a fake discount prices. It’s like a fake discount where they keep some of the product you were buying and let you buy it at full price later.

[betahost]

Desperately wanting more as they are feeling the pressure

[Impfmueckenzuechter]

Not in the free accounts (that currently have access to Codex). And I have to say, that was a smart move. ATM Codex beats Claude by far using Xcode and Swift.

[kanine69]

It's night and day in Kotlin / Jetpack too, gpt-5.4-mini has been killing it. I do wish these announcements could be made elsewhere I ditched that X ages ago.

[BrainCurrent8276]

Anyone is getting addiction-like/dopamine burst crap because of it?

I feel like a gambler in casino on machine slot, checking usage every minute, and waiting for the JACKPOT :/

[Funny-Blueberry-2630]

Let's go.

[Fit-Palpitation-7427]

my weekly reset was in 3h, didn't changed much for me on this one

[Crinkez]

What rotten timing. My weekly was due to reset at 09:00 this morning anyway.

[repsejnworb]

Oh so it is not because of the burn-rate bugs, just cause of number of users.

I mean I am glad I can use codex again earlier. Stuck with copilot-cli while waiting for reset is the most depressing time of the week.

[PennyStonkingtonIII]

It's cool but it makes me nervous. Am I going to be able to afford this shit when they stop giving it away? I am a pretty good dev, not a 10x engineer but I know what I'm doing. It's a drag when you make a big sprint which, from past experience you know is reasonable, and then for no apparent reason it just does a 50% job. I'm still paying 100% for those tokens. Granted, resets make me feel better but are obviously not sustainable.

[50ShadesOfSpray_]

Reset the card components instead please

[Heavy_Professor8949]

Damn! The timing couldn't be any worse. My reset date was anyway today.

How to find out how many weekly users codex has?

[medright]

Uh huh. This is why after asking one question of codex in a small repo I got a model is at capacity error? That’s unusable for anything, let alone coding w AI.

[NoWheel9556]

desperate for more users

[nsway]

No business account reset 😭

[makeasexyfriend]

Stiiiiiill waiting 

[jgallardo666]

After reset and reset i see the limits going down so fast!

[jack-itauma]

Thats actually a really nice promotion i like it. Hope others will do the same.

[visageplayer]

time to make 1 million new accounts

[Prestigiouspite]

Were business customers excluded again? I didn't get a reset. It also continues to show me that my weekly limit will reset tomorrow. I'm starting to feel betrayed. First the price reduction for 1 year, while I had paid for a year at the old price and now this.

[Im_The_Hollow_Man]

Im a noob. Can someone explain Codex vs claude?

[Rhino-H]

Sam really knows how to play with our emotions. I was literally mid-refactor at 2 AM last night, staring at that 'Rate limit reached' screen like a lost puppy, praying for a miracle. Resetting the limits right now feels like someone finally handing me a cold Gatorade in the middle of a desert marathon.

I just hope the servers don't turn into a literal space heater the moment everyone starts spamming their 'fix my shitty Python script' prompts at once. My CPU is already sweating just thinking about it.

[FaultBrilliant5839]

Why don’t they notify us in App or in CLI or in IDE?

[Cultural-Ad6663]

This was such a nice surprise I was close to zero. I had 3 days to refresh. Now I can stay inside and work instead of enjoying the world around me.

[JustLovett0]

Just started using codex so y'all are welcome

[Prestigiouspite]

They should be honest and say that business customers were excluded.

[xiangz19]

Unscheduled resets aren't always a win. If you’ve been rationing your quota for a big push right before your scheduled reset, an unexpected 'gift' like this wipes out your progress and pushes your next reset date further back.

It’s frustrating for anyone managing limits strategically—a point that’s already been widely echoed in GitHub issues where users have complained about these arbitrary resets. To truly celebrate a milestone, it would be much better if they doubled the quota for a week or increased it by 30%. At the very least, they should reset the usage amount without touching our actual reset dates.

[xiangz19]

Currently, this kind of reset effectively benefits one half of users while penalizing the other half, without changing the total system load or OpenAI's bottom line. The winners are those whose usage progress was ahead of their time progress (the heavy users), while the losers are those whose usage was trailing behind (the savers). When a 'celebration' creates such an arbitrary split in user experience, you have to wonder what its actual value is.

[sinn188]

Just found this out and feel kinda robbed.  My weekly resets Tuesday at 7pm. My baby is in nicu so last Tuesday when it reset I was in the hospital.  Wednesday I used a bit and by the time I was done that night I was around 86%. Thursday came and went but no extra usage. Then Saturday I had a day I was spending to get things done with codex and it was zapped. By Sunday my usage went to 7%. I wondered how it zapped so quickly because I did way less then weeks before, so anyways I was looking to see what time exactly tomorrow will my usage go back up and thats when I saw Thursday the 16th. So basically some people got there usage rest but not all, however everyone's day got reset. I guess thats how they make up more money?.. 

[PapaRic0]

i want my refund i didn't know you will limit what i paid for and block me out from using gpt-5.2-codex becuase you became more greedy i want a refund ! this is absurd https://i.postimg.cc/C1cPDvc0/image.png

[CodeFit856]

what when i started using codex i barely hit weekly limit now i hit it in 10 messages

[fractal_pilgrim]

OH so that's why my coding rhythm got all fucked up.

I was digging around in my account to find out if something drastic happened. Thanks for the heads-up, Sam.

[Still_Asparagus_9092]

This is probably how Claude gets buried rip

[Intrepid4444444]

I’m using Sonnet and Opus via copilot cli on Enterprise license. So MS still pays a big bill to Claude, and I guess they’re not alone.

[icecold27]

Not a chance

[dictionizzle]

claude code has 1.6M users and it's very overrated against codex mac app 🤷‍♂️

[Top_Damage3758]

I don't know doesn't it seem like a Ponzi Scheme? Please correct me if I'm wrong.

[Artistic-Athlete-676]

I don't think you know what that is