OpenAI Codex usage limit resets
Every time OpenAI reset the 5-hour and weekly usage limits of Codex on ChatGPT plans, as announced on X by @thsottiaux, Tibo Sottiaux, Head of Codex at OpenAI. Each entry links to the post. OpenAI does not publish resets on its status page or help center, and it does not announce them in advance, so this page cannot predict the next one. Updated every 30 minutes.
Days since the last reset
0
0 days · Oct 10, 2026
This wait is longer than
9%
of the 55 gaps between past resets
Resets since Sep 17, 2025
56
about 4.4 a month
Average gap
7.1 days
longest 67.7 days
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Resets, limit changes and outages
Hover or tap a mark for details; click a reset to find it in the table. Outages are the major and critical incidents on OpenAI's status page that touch Codex; tick “Minor incidents too” to add the minor ones. Several resets came right after a bug or an outage.
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Days between resets
Each bar is the wait before a reset; the outlined bar is the wait so far. The dashed line is the average.
When resets happen
Day and hour of each reset post, in your time zone.
Day of week
Hour of day
Your own limits timer
Your plan's own 5-hour and weekly windows, counted down in this browser. Nothing is sent anywhere; the values stay on this device.
All resets
| Date (UTC) | What OpenAI did | Who got it | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 10, 2026 22:16 |
Announced a global usage reset to take place by end of day. | all users | post on X |
| Oct 7, 2026 19:19 |
Loaded a banked reset into all paid accounts, as part of a celebration of a new high of 40M active users across Codex and ChatGPT Work. apply it yourself | everyone's paid accounts | post on X |
| Oct 7, 2026 03:35 |
Announced a reset after a community vote, following the shipping of four things and some math proofs. | — | post on X |
| Oct 2, 2026 02:14 |
Announced a global usage reset for tomorrow at 10am PST, after apologizing for the slow start of GPT-6.1 Sol caused by a massive load spike in the first two days. | all paid ChatGPT accounts | post on X |
| Sep 26, 2026 18:17 |
Confirmed that the resets reached all accounts, stating they had all propagated. | — | post on X |
| Sep 12, 2026 08:09 |
Confirmed that the reset reached all accounts. | — | post on X |
| Sep 8, 2026 04:05 |
Reset usage limits for everyone, with no window specified. | everyone | post on X |
| Sep 7, 2026 19:24 |
Announced a global reset of usage for all paid subscriptions. | all paid subscriptions | post on X |
| Sep 5, 2026 00:39 |
Announced a full banked reset for all Plus, Pro and Business users, to land at the end of the day, in celebration of rolling out Astra ahead of schedule. apply it yourself | all Plus, Pro and Business users | post on X |
| Sep 3, 2026 23:12 |
Gave one banked reset for every day users lack access to Astra on their paid ChatGPT plan, starting today, with the first landing in about 3 hours. apply it yourself | paid ChatGPT plan users without access to Astra | post on X |
| Aug 31, 2026 02:29 |
Reset usage for all paid ChatGPT Work and Codex subscriptions to celebrate reaching 25M active users. | all paid subscriptions for ChatGPT Work and Codex | post on X |
| Aug 29, 2026 20:43 |
Reset usage for all paid users of Codex and ChatGPT Work, alongside an update on Codex usage limits after fixes shipped from user reports. | all paid users of Codex and ChatGPT Work | post on X |
| Aug 27, 2026 16:35 |
Reset usage for all ChatGPT Work and Codex users, with no specific window named. | all ChatGPT Work and Codex users | post on X |
| Aug 21, 2026 11:43 |
Credited every Codex and ChatGPT Work user with a banked reset to use on their own, in celebration of Codex reaching 20M active users. apply it yourself | every Codex and ChatGPT Work user | post on X |
| Aug 13, 2026 01:01 |
Reset usage for everyone, landing within the next hour, after the product crossed a 15M milestone. | everyone | post on X |
| Aug 8, 2026 20:29 |
Reset usage limits for all paid users of ChatGPT Work and Codex to celebrate GPT-5.6 Sol and the poster staying on. | all paid users of ChatGPT Work and Codex | post on X |
| Aug 1, 2026 03:32 |
Reset usage limits for Codex and ChatGPT Work to celebrate a week of efficiency and let users run many Luna threads over the weekend. | Codex and ChatGPT Work users | post on X |
| Jul 29, 2026 04:09 |
Reset usage limits for all ChatGPT Work and Codex users, alongside an update on GPT-5.6 Sol usage limits after reports that Sol used Codex limits faster than expected. | all ChatGPT Work and Codex users | post on X |
| Jul 28, 2026 03:09 |
Reset usage limits for all paid users of Codex and ChatGPT Work. | all paid users of Codex and ChatGPT Work | post on X |
| Jul 25, 2026 19:17 |
Reset usage limits for all Codex and ChatGPT Work users after an almost global outage the previous night, roughly 2am to 4am. | all Codex and ChatGPT Work users | post on X |
| Jul 21, 2026 16:47 |
Reset usage for paid users of Codex and ChatGPT Work, landing within the next hour, in a post celebrating 10M. | paid users of Codex and ChatGPT Work | post on X |
| Jul 18, 2026 03:28 |
Reset usage limits for all paid users of Codex and ChatGPT Work, thanking the team for iterating quickly and keeping infrastructure up while scaling. | all paid users for Codex and ChatGPT Work | post on X |
| Jul 16, 2026 04:14 |
Reset weekly usage limits for Codex and ChatGPT Work users, to be restored to 100% shortly, after the product passed 9M active users. | Codex and ChatGPT Work users weekly |
post on X |
| Jul 14, 2026 19:34 |
Reset usage limits for all users after reaching 8M active users across Codex and ChatGPT Work, and kept the 5-hour rate limit removed. | all users | post on X |
| Jul 13, 2026 18:29 |
Added a banked reset to everyone's account to celebrate the 7M active user milestone, applicable in the desktop app or on web to replenish weekly usage. apply it yourself | everyone weekly |
post on X |
| Jul 12, 2026 21:28 |
Added a banked reset for 500k users of ChatGPT Work and Codex, and enabled using banked resets from web and mobile, previously desktop app only. apply it yourself | 500k users of ChatGPT Work and Codex | post on X |
| Jul 11, 2026 05:54 |
Reset usage limits for all ChatGPT Work and Codex users, landing over the next 30 minutes, while thanking users for pushing systems with record traffic growth. | all ChatGPT Work and Codex users | post on X |
| Jul 10, 2026 17:59 |
Reset usage limits across Codex and ChatGPT Work, and announced another reset coming later in the day. | Codex and ChatGPT Work users | post on X |
| Jul 9, 2026 21:24 |
Reset usage limits in full for ChatGPT Work and Codex, propagating over the next hour, with credit given to a new model researcher who pressed the button. | ChatGPT Work and Codex users | post on X |
| Jun 29, 2026 23:39 |
Fully reset Codex usage limits within the next hour and credited one additional banked reset for use over the next 24 hours, after investigating reports of faster-than-expected usage consumption. | — | post on X |
| Jun 28, 2026 23:54 |
Reset everyone's Codex usage limits as a hard reset while the investigation continues, noting some users had stacked up to three banked resets. | everyone | post on X |
| Jun 26, 2026 23:39 |
Reset usage for all Codex users, to appear in accounts within a few hours, while mitigations were applied and monitoring of the situation continued. | all Codex users | post on X |
| Jun 18, 2026 00:10 |
Reset usage in full for users and also added a reset to each user's reset bank to apply later at their own discretion. | — | post on X |
| Jun 4, 2026 00:25 |
Reset Codex usage limits across all paid plans after three small incidents over the previous 24 hours affected Codex reliability. | all paid plans | post on X |
| May 31, 2026 15:25 |
Reset Codex usage limits for all paid ChatGPT subscriptions, restoring weekly and hourly limits to 100%. | all paid ChatGPT subscriptions 5-hour and weekly |
post on X |
| May 23, 2026 20:14 |
Reset usage limits for all accounts after rolling back an optimization that hurt cache hit rates when compacting long-running sessions and drained limits faster in Codex. | all accounts | post on X |
| May 16, 2026 17:51 |
Reset Codex usage limits across all paid plans. | all paid plans | post on X |
| Apr 28, 2026 05:28 |
Reset Codex rate limits for all paid plans to celebrate a good week and let everyone build more with GPT-5.5. | ALL paid plans | post on X |
| Apr 20, 2026 23:15 |
Announced an incoming rate limit reset after a roughly 10-minute Codex incident that was mitigated, with recovery under way. | — | post on X |
| Apr 17, 2026 00:58 |
Reset Codex rate limits across all plans to celebrate Codex's 1-year anniversary. | all plans | post on X |
| Apr 9, 2026 17:51 |
Reset usage limits again, as mentioned the day before, while launching a new $100 plan that includes a lot of Codex usage. | — | post on X |
| Apr 7, 2026 23:13 |
Reset rate limits to celebrate Codex reaching three million weekly users, up from two million under a month earlier, and said further resets would follow. | — | post on X |
| Apr 1, 2026 07:48 |
Reset usage limits for all plans as a cautious step after dashboards showed more users hitting rate limits for reasons not fully understood. | all plans | post on X |
| Mar 27, 2026 01:52 |
Reset Codex usage limits across all plans so everyone could experiment with newly launched plugins, and because it had been a while. | all plans | post on X |
| Mar 11, 2026 05:38 |
Reset usage limits after Codex was restored and stabilized following an outage; the reset was expected to appear shortly. | — | post on X |
| Mar 10, 2026 03:51 |
Announced an upcoming rate limit reset after a Codex issue was fully resolved and stable for the last couple of hours. | — | post on X |
| Mar 8, 2026 02:42 |
Reset rate limits for Plus and Pro subscriptions after reports of Codex usage draining faster than it should, while an investigation continues over the coming 1-3 days. | Plus and Pro subscriptions | post on X |
| Mar 4, 2026 21:30 |
Reset rate limits for all Plus and Pro users to compensate after fixing an issue that kept the 2X promotional limit increase from being applied to an estimated 9% of them. | all plus and pro users | post on X |
| Mar 3, 2026 01:50 |
Reset rate limits after an issue wrongly blocked and rejected requests as high cyber risk, fixed in about 8 minutes. | — | post on X |
| Dec 25, 2025 08:01 |
Reset rate limits for Codex users and doubled usage limits to 2X the usual until the 1st of Jan, as a thank-you gift. | Codex users | post on X |
| Dec 19, 2025 22:01 |
Reset usage limits after rewriting the underlying system that tracks and bills Codex usage, skipping a time-consuming backfill. | — | post on X |
| Dec 17, 2025 02:18 |
Reset everyone's usage limits and apologized for the disruption. | everyone | post on X |
| Dec 2, 2025 22:49 |
Reset usage limits for everyone in Codex to mitigate an issue quickly, while the team keeps working on the underlying cause; propagation takes about 10 minutes. | everyone in Codex | post on X |
| Nov 22, 2025 23:13 |
Reset rate limits for all Codex users to compensate for unusually high latencies in or near the US in the previous hours. | all Codex users | post on X |
| Nov 5, 2025 20:19 |
Reset rate limits after resolving a Codex outage that began as a minor outage and became a global outage for the last 30 minutes. | — | post on X |
| Sep 17, 2025 04:02 |
Reset everyone's limits for gpt-5-codex to make up for earlier slowdowns while additional GPUs were being provisioned, and promised to keep adding capacity through the week. | everyone | post on X |
Times are when the post was published; a reset can take a while to reach every account. Notes are ours; the post is the source.
What your plan includes
A reset clears your current usage; it does not change your plan. For what each plan includes per 5 hours and per week, see Codex usage limits, and to check whether a plan lasts your day, the limits calculator. Outages are tracked on Codex status. Resets of Claude: Claude limit resets; both side by side: limit resets tracker.
Common questions
When did OpenAI last reset Codex usage limits?
On Oct 10, 2026 (UTC): Announced a global usage reset to take place by end of day. Source: https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2109045392684032299
How often does OpenAI reset Codex limits?
56 resets since Sep 17, 2025, on average every 7.1 days; the longest gap was 67.7 days. Resets are not scheduled and are not announced in advance.
Where does OpenAI announce limit resets?
On X, from @thsottiaux (Tibo Sottiaux, Head of Codex at OpenAI). They are not posted on the status page or in the help center.
Does a reset change my plan's limits?
No. A reset clears the usage you have already used in the current 5-hour and/or weekly window; the limits of your plan stay the same.