Codex Reset History
A verified record of Codex reset and limit events. Reset data updated: 2026-09-15.
| Date | Event | Type | Confidence | Source | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12, 2026 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | Reset all propagated. Sweet … |
| Sep 8, 2026 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | All reset for everyone. Enjoy the week with … |
| Sep 5, 2026 | Banked reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | Because we are beyond happy to have Astra rolled out today ahead of schedule and you have been super patient with us … |
| Sep 3, 2026 | Banked reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | We will give one banked reset for every day you don't have access to Astra on your paid ChatGPT plan, starting … |
| Aug 31, 2026 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | What I wanted to say yesterday is that we hit 25M active users and to celebrate we have now reset usage for all paid … |
| Aug 29, 2026 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | We are reseting usage for all paid users of Codex and ChatGPT Work. Please continue reading for an update on Codex … |
| Aug 27, 2026 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | Never slept better and feeling reseted. Brand new me and brand new usage for all ChatGPT Work and Codex users. … |
| Aug 25, 2026 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | @dtzy_88 Ah yeah, forgot to … |
| Aug 24, 2026 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | Good Sunday. Reset has been propagated to accounts and we landed some fixes to usage for things mentioned yesterday as … |
| Aug 21, 2026 | Banked reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | It's me again. I come bearing great news. First of all, we have hit 20M active users for Codex some time this … |
| Aug 13, 2026 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | Old news actually from a bunch of days ago, but crossed that 15M. Enjoy a nice reset everyone. Landing in the next … |
| Aug 11, 2026 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | Hi. It is … |
| Aug 8, 2026 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | That's right, GPT-5.6 Sol is awesome and can be used pretty much anywhere, including in the CC harness. To … |
| Aug 1, 2026 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | To celebrate a week of efficiency and let you run 100'000 Luna threads this weekend... that's right... wait … |
| Jul 29, 2026 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | Hello people of Sol! I've reset usage limits for all ChatGPT Work and Codex users. Together with that, a quick … |
| Jul 28, 2026 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | Back at the laptop. The usage limits have been reset for all paid users of Codex and ChatGPT Work. Weeeeeeeee. … |
| Jul 25, 2026 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | We have reset usage limits for all Codex and ChatGPT Work users. Last night around 2am to 4am we suffered an almost … |
| Jul 21, 2026 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | 10M! New day, new usage reset for paid users of Codex and ChatGPT Work. Lands in the next hour. … |
| Jul 18, 2026 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | Oops... I did it again. Enjoy reset usage limits for all paid users for Codex and ChatGPT Work. Super grateful for … |
| Jul 16, 2026 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | Another reset for our Codex and ChatGPT Work users. Actually hit 9M active users way earlier today, but then got … |
| Jul 14, 2026 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | Hello. We have reached 8M active users across Codex and ChatGPT Work. We are once again resetting the usage limits … |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | Thank you to the 7M active users who are now using Codex and ChatGPT Work. We have added a banked reset to … |
| Jul 12, 2026 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | Added a banked reset to 500k users of ChatGPT Work and Codex. What’s been happening: - Just released the ability to … |
| Jul 11, 2026 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | Introducing... another usage limit reset for all our ChatGPT Work and Codex users. Should land over next 30 minutes. … |
| Jul 10, 2026 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | Hello beautiful people! We have reset usage limits across Codex and ChatGPT Work. And another one will come later in … |
| Jul 9, 2026 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | Enjoy a full reset of your usage limits for ChatGPT Work and Codex. Propagating in the next hour. @_rajanagarwal just … |
| Jun 29, 2026 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | Codex usage limits will be fully reset again in the next hour and we will credit one additional reset into your bank … |
| Jun 28, 2026 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | As we are still investigating, I have reset everyone's Codex usage limits. This is a hard reset given some users … |
| Jun 26, 2026 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | We are giving all Codex users a usage reset on the house. Should be showing in your accounts in the next few … |
| Jun 18, 2026 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | Dearest gentle codexer. We did a sneaky double reset. Not only do you get a full reset on us. But you are also … |
| Jun 4, 2026 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | Hi. Over the last 24 hours we had three separate small incidents that affected Codex reliability. Those are three too … |
| May 31, 2026 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | The Codex usage limits have been reset for all paid ChatGPT subscriptions. You should be back to 100% weekly and 100% … |
| May 23, 2026 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | Some of you noticed limits drained faster in Codex, we root caused it to an optimization that we rolled back that had … |
| May 16, 2026 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | Codex usage limits have now been reset across all paid plans. Enjoy the … |
| Apr 28, 2026 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | Don't just reset Codex rate limits for fun, it costs money. Don't just reset Codex rate limits for fun, it … |
| Apr 20, 2026 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | Codex incident is mitigated, seeing recovery. Lasted about 10 mins, Codex itself helped with the remediation, but … |
| Apr 17, 2026 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | Hi! To celebrate its 1-year anniversary, I have allowed Codex to reset its own rate limits across all plans. Enjoy all … |
| Apr 9, 2026 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | We did it, say hi to the $100 plan! It should be the sweet spot for a ton of you. It comes with a ton of codex … |
| Apr 7, 2026 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | Three million people are now using Codex weekly - up from two million a little under a month ago. Incredible to see … |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | Our Codex dashboards are showing increased rate of users hitting rate limits and since we don't fully understand … |
| Mar 27, 2026 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | Hello. We have reset Codex usage limits across all plans to let everyone experiment with the magnificent plugins we … |
| Mar 11, 2026 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | OK, Codex is back and stable and we should be good for a while. Reset button pressed, should see it in a … |
| Mar 10, 2026 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | This codex issue is now fully resolved and stable for the last couple of hours. You have come to expect it, but yes, … |
| Mar 8, 2026 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | We don’t have evidence of a widespread issue with codex usage being drained faster than it should but there are enough … |
| Mar 4, 2026 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | We caught an issue that was causing the 2X promotional increase in limits to not be applied to an estimated 9% of plus … |
| Mar 3, 2026 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | Codex is back up. We introduced an issue that caused requests to be blocked and rejected as high cyber risk. This was … |
| Dec 25, 2025 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | For Codex users, to thank you all for the fun we've had over the last months, our first gift is that we have … |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | We rewrote the underlying system to track and bill usage in Codex and we have reset usage limits in the process. … |
| Dec 17, 2025 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | Didn’t need to do this in a while, but you know the drill. We have reset everyone’s usage limits, enjoy more Codex and … |
| Dec 2, 2025 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | We have reset the usage limits for everyone in Codex, which helps us mitigate the issue the fastest and the team will … |
| Nov 22, 2025 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | We have reset rate limits for all Codex users to compensate for the unusual high latencies in or near the US in the … |
| Nov 5, 2025 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | Codex outage resolved. We suffered a minor outage for last 45 minutes which turned into a global outage for last 30 … |
| Sep 17, 2025 | Global reset | Confirmed | 90% | official | We have reset everyone's limits for gpt-5-codex to allow you all to benefit more from it today and as a way to … |
How events get verified
Every event in this history carries a status: Confirmed means verified against an official source or direct evidence; Probable means strong but incomplete evidence; Community report means user-reported and not yet independently verified. Community reports are never presented as official facts, and unverifiable claims are never listed.
Sources are ranked official first, then credible community data. We currently reference:
- OpenAI Help Center (OpenAI)
- Codex Documentation (OpenAI)
- @thsottiaux on X (X (Twitter))
- codex-resets.com reset archive (codex-resets.com)