A weekly allowance is supposed to last a week. Several Codex users say theirs lasted seconds.
At least three developers opened issues on OpenAI's Codex GitHub repo on 16–17 October saying their weekly Codex allowance collapsed within seconds or minutes on the evening of 16 October (UTC). One logged 77% to 10% in 38 seconds; another says 48% to 0% in about nine minutes, after which extra credits were charged. The reporters say the cause isn't proven and ask OpenAI for a server-side check.
What the record shows
- Issue #54718: about 58% remaining became 0% 'in roughly eight seconds', the developer says, during overnight client work.
- Issue #54677: 77% to 10% between 21:10:43 and 21:11:21 Moscow time, with the weekly reset time unchanged, per the developer's local logs.
- Issue #54767: 48% to 0% in about nine minutes, then 295.8 credits charged, per the developer.
- Similar complaints in May led a Codex team member to post that usage limits were 'out of sync for some Codex users' (quoted on OpenAI's community forum). We found no public OpenAI reply on the October issues.
Source: GitHub: openai/codex issue #54718
Full story, with updates and corrections: '58% to 0% in Eight Seconds': Codex Users Say Their Weekly Allowance Vanished on the Same Night
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Top comments (1)
Quota counters are promises, and this story shows why they need a server-side ledger. If the remaining allowance is reconstructed client-side from local usage, two clocks drift and the user has no way to prove which number is right. An idempotent debit per request plus the reset epoch in the response would make these disputes falsifiable in minutes instead of GitHub threads.