Codex usage limits reset history

Recent Codex Reset Events

Global resets and Banked Reset distributions are listed together in chronological order.

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Reset history

August 2026

Luna 100k Threads & Efficiency Milestone Reset

Category: Unscheduled reset
Reason: Celebration reset
Reset method: Hard Reset
Scope: All paid plans
Reset Notice: Teaser hint
Time from notice to reset: 22 hours 42 minutes

Note

Tibo announced a forced reset for all Codex and ChatGPT Work users to celebrate a week of efficiency gains and enable 100,000 Luna threads over the weekend.

Notice: Jul 31, 2026, 22:50 GMT+9 JST

Reset: Aug 1, 2026, 12:32 GMT+9 JST

July 2026

GPT-5.6 Sol Efficiency Improvement Reset

Category: Unscheduled reset
Reason: Celebration reset
Reset method: Hard Reset
Scope: All paid plans
Reset Notice: Teaser hint
Time from notice to reset: 23 hours 9 minutes

Note

Following the announcement by Tibo regarding efficiency improvements for the GPT-5.6 Sol model (~18% longer usage duration), rate limits for all ChatGPT Work and Codex users were forcibly reset immediately.

Notice: Jul 28, 2026, 14:00 GMT+9 JST

Reset: Jul 29, 2026, 13:09 GMT+9 JST

ChatGPT Work Rapid Adoption Celebration Reset

Category: Unscheduled reset
Reason: Celebration reset
Reset method: Hard Reset
Scope: All paid plans
Reset Notice: Teaser hint
Time from notice to reset: 2 hours 42 minutes

Note

Usage limits for Codex and ChatGPT Work were forcibly reset to celebrate the rapid adoption of ChatGPT Work and team efforts.

Notice: Jul 28, 2026, 09:27 GMT+9 JST

Reset: Jul 28, 2026, 12:09 GMT+9 JST

Outage Compensation Reset

Category: Unscheduled reset
Reason: Compensation reset
Reset method: Hard Reset
Scope: All paid plans
Time from notice to reset: 0 min

Note

Usage limits for ChatGPT Work and Codex were forcibly reset following full recovery from a global system outage.

Reset: Jul 26, 2026, 04:17 GMT+9 JST

10M Active Users Celebration Reset

Category: Unscheduled reset
Reason: Celebration reset
Reset method: Hard Reset
Scope: All paid plans
Time from notice to reset: 0 min

Note

Usage limits for ChatGPT Work and Codex were reset to celebrate reaching 10 million active users.

Reset: Jul 22, 2026, 02:05 GMT+9 JST

GPT-5.6 Sol launch celebration reset (fourth)

Category: Unscheduled reset
Reason: Celebration reset
Reset method: Hard Reset
Scope: All paid plans
Time from notice to reset: 0 min

Note

Usage limits for ChatGPT Work and Codex were reset for a fourth time following additional investigations and improvements to GPT-5.6 Sol.

Reset: Jul 18, 2026, 12:31 GMT+9 JST

9 million active users celebration reset

Category: Unscheduled reset
Reason: Celebration reset
Reset method: Hard Reset
Scope: All paid plans
Reset Notice: Teaser hint
Time from notice to reset: 22 hours 15 minutes

Note

Usage limits for ChatGPT Work and Codex were reset to celebrate reaching 9 million active users.

Notice: Jul 15, 2026, 15:00 GMT+9 JST

Reset: Jul 16, 2026, 13:15 GMT+9 JST

8 million active users celebration reset

Category: Unscheduled reset
Reason: Celebration reset
Reset method: Hard Reset
Scope: All paid plans
Reset Notice: Teaser hint
Time from notice to reset: 14 hours 53 minutes

Note

Usage limits for ChatGPT Work and Codex were reset to celebrate reaching 8 million active users.

Notice: Jul 14, 2026, 14:52 GMT+9 JST

Reset: Jul 15, 2026, 05:45 GMT+9 JST

7 Million Active Users Celebration Banked Reset Distribution

Category: Unscheduled reset
Reason: Celebration reset
Reset method: 1 Banked Reset
Scope: All paid plans
Time from notice to reset: 0 min

Note

One Banked Reset was granted to all paid users (Codex Go/Plus/Pro) to celebrate reaching 7 million active users.

Reset: Jul 14, 2026, 03:40 GMT+9 JST

Web/Mobile Feature Bug Compensation Banked Reset

Category: Unscheduled reset
Reason: Compensation reset
Reset method: 1 Banked Reset
Scope: Affected users (approx. 500k)
Time from notice to reset: 0 min

Note

One Banked Reset was granted as compensation to approximately 500,000 affected users whose reset did not apply after they pressed the button during the web/mobile feature rollout.

Reset: Jul 13, 2026, 07:00 GMT+9 JST

6 million active users celebration reset

Category: Unscheduled reset
Reason: Celebration reset
Reset method: Hard Reset
Scope: All paid plans
Time from notice to reset: 0 min

Note

Usage limits for ChatGPT Work and Codex were reset to celebrate reaching 6 million active users.

Reset: Jul 13, 2026, 03:30 GMT+9 JST

GPT-5.6 Sol launch celebration reset (third)

Category: Unscheduled reset
Reason: Celebration reset
Reset method: Hard Reset
Scope: All paid plans
Reset Notice: Official notice
Time from notice to reset: 24 hours 30 minutes

Note

Usage limits for ChatGPT Work and Codex were reset for a third time to celebrate the GPT-5.6 Sol launch.

Notice: Jul 10, 2026, 14:30 GMT+9 JST

Reset: Jul 11, 2026, 15:00 GMT+9 JST

GPT-5.6 Sol launch celebration reset (second)

Category: Unscheduled reset
Reason: Celebration reset
Reset method: Hard Reset
Scope: All paid plans
Reset Notice: Official notice
Time from notice to reset: 12 hours 56 minutes

Note

Usage limits for ChatGPT Work and Codex were reset for a second time to celebrate the GPT-5.6 Sol launch.

Notice: Jul 10, 2026, 14:30 GMT+9 JST

Reset: Jul 11, 2026, 03:26 GMT+9 JST

GPT-5.6 launch celebration reset

Category: Unscheduled reset
Reason: Celebration reset
Reset method: Hard Reset
Scope: All paid plans
Reset Notice: Official notice
Time from notice to reset: 1 hour

Note

Codex usage limits for all paid plans were reset to celebrate the GPT-5.6 launch.

Notice: Jul 10, 2026, 06:00 GMT+9 JST

Reset: Jul 10, 2026, 07:00 GMT+9 JST

Codex Reset Button (AIE World's Fair)

Category: Unscheduled reset
Reason: Celebration reset
Reset method: 1 Banked Reset
Scope: All paid plans
Reset Notice: Official notice
Time from notice to reset: 1 hour

Note

During the AI Engineer World's Fair demo, the Codex reset button was pressed, granting one Banked Reset to all paid users (Codex Go/Plus/Pro).

Notice: Jul 2, 2026, 04:50 GMT+9 JST

Reset: Jul 2, 2026, 05:50 GMT+9 JST

June 2026

Temporary Reset

Category: Unscheduled reset
Reason: Compensation reset
Reset method: Hard Reset
Scope: All paid plans
Reset Notice: Official notice
Time from notice to reset: 40 minutes

Note

Tibo announced that a full reset would take place within an hour. Codex limits were then reset for all users as compensation for an excessive-usage issue.

Notice: Jun 30, 2026, 08:50 GMT+9 JST

Reset: Jun 30, 2026, 09:30 GMT+9 JST

Forced Compensation Reset (Excessive Consumption Investigation)

Category: Unscheduled reset
Reason: Compensation reset
Reset method: Hard Reset
Scope: All paid plans
Time from notice to reset: 0 min

Note

Due to an issue causing excessive usage limit consumption for some users, everyone's Codex limits were forcibly reset (cleared) during the investigation.

Reset: Jun 29, 2026, 09:00 GMT+9 JST

Model Degradation & Excessive Consumption Compensation Reset

Category: Unscheduled reset
Reason: Compensation reset
Reset method: 1 Banked Reset
Scope: All paid plans
Reset Notice: Official notice
Time from notice to reset: 1 hour

Note

One Banked Reset was distributed to all paid plans as compensation for model degradation and excessive usage consumption issues.

Notice: Jun 27, 2026, 11:00 GMT+9 JST

Reset: Jun 27, 2026, 12:00 GMT+9 JST

Codex Reliability Incident Compensation Reset

Category: Unscheduled reset
Reason: Compensation reset
Reset method: 1 Banked Reset
Scope: All paid plans
Time from notice to reset: 0 min

Note

One Banked Reset was distributed to all accounts as compensation for issues affecting Codex reliability.

Reset: Jun 18, 2026, 07:00 GMT+9 JST

Banked Reset Distributed

Category: Banked Reset Distributed
Reason: Specification change
Reset method: 1 Banked Reset
Scope: All paid plans
Time from notice to reset: 0 min

Note

This was not a regular forced reset. One Banked Reset was distributed, and the resulting usage window or next date may differ by account.

Reset: Jun 12, 2026, 09:11 GMT+9 JST

Codex reliability compensation reset

Category: Unscheduled reset
Reason: Compensation reset
Reset method: Hard Reset
Scope: All paid plans
Reset Notice: Official notice
Time from notice to reset: 0 min

Note

As compensation for three incidents affecting Codex reliability in the past 24 hours, usage limits for all paid plans were reset.

Reset: Jun 4, 2026, 09:25 GMT+9 JST

5M active users milestone celebration reset

Category: Unscheduled reset
Reason: Celebration reset
Reset method: Hard Reset
Scope: All paid plans
Reset Notice: Official notice
Time from notice to reset: 9 hours 25 minutes

Note

To celebrate reaching 5 million active Codex users, usage counts for all paid ChatGPT/Codex users were forcibly reset.

Notice: May 31, 2026, 14:59 GMT+9 JST

Reset: Jun 1, 2026, 00:25 GMT+9 JST

May 2026

Long-session compression over-consumption compensation reset

Category: Unscheduled reset
Reason: Compensation reset
Reset method: Hard Reset
Scope: All paid plans
Time from notice to reset: 0 min

Note

After a bug causing excessive consumption due to lower cache-hit rates in Codex long-session compression was fixed, all paid users' limits were reset.

Reset: May 24, 2026, 05:14 GMT+9 JST

Sam's promised like milestone reset

Category: Unscheduled reset
Reason: Celebration reset
Reset method: Hard Reset
Scope: All paid plans
Reset Notice: Official notice
Time from notice to reset: 8 minutes

Note

After Sam Altman's tweet reached one like, Tibo immediately reset the Codex usage limit.

Notice: May 20, 2026, 03:31 GMT+9 JST

Reset: May 20, 2026, 03:39 GMT+9 JST

GPT-5.5 performance degradation compensation reset

Category: Unscheduled reset
Reason: Compensation reset
Reset method: Hard Reset
Scope: All paid plans
Reset Notice: Official notice
Time from notice to reset: 17 hours 20 minutes

Note

Following the resolution of a temporary GPT-5.5 performance-degradation issue, usage counts for all paid plans were forcibly reset.

Notice: May 16, 2026, 09:31 GMT+9 JST

Reset: May 17, 2026, 02:51 GMT+9 JST