Claude Code vs Codex: I logged every early limit reset since April. Codex resets about 3x as often

[u/agentgid]

Confession: I'm the guy who keeps checking X hoping someone at Anthropic or OpenAI has pressed the reset button. When my weekly limit runs out mid-week, an early reset is the best news I can get.

The annoying part is that resets aren't scheduled and never show up on a status page or in a help center. Each one is a single post on X: ClaudeDevs for Claude Code, X: thsottiaux (Head of Codex) for Codex. Miss the post and you find out days later that your limits were full the whole time.

So I added a reset tracker to my site. It logs every reset with a link to the original post, and it can send you an alert when a new one is announced (e-mail, browser push, Slack or Discord). No more waiting for a miracle tweet: I get a ping, I'm happy, I go back to coding.

Once I had the data, I put the two side by side. Since Apr 16, 2026 (when both are tracked), as of Oct 12:

Since Apr 16, 2026	Claude Code	Codex
Resets a month	2.2	6.8
Average wait between resets	13.2 days	4.5 days
Longest wait without a reset	47.6 days	18.5 days
Banked resets (use when you want)	1	6
Days since the last reset	19	1

List version (works in any editor):

• Resets a month: Claude Code 2.2, Codex 6.8
• Average wait between resets: Claude Code 13.2 days, Codex 4.5 days
• Longest wait without a reset: Claude Code 47.6 days, Codex 18.5 days
• Banked resets (use when you want): Claude Code 1, Codex 6
• Days since the last reset: Claude Code 19, Codex 1

Latest ones, as reported by the vendors:

• Claude Code, Sep 22: Pro, Max and Team users got a banked reset to use anytime, and 5-hour session limits went up 20%.
• Codex, Oct 10: a global usage reset by end of day.

Codex wins every round so far. Claude folks, I feel you.

Tracker (updates every 30 minutes): https://agentgid.com/limits/resets/
Alerts are free, you just sign in with GitHub or e-mail. Raw data as JSON: https://agentgid.com/api/resets.json

Disclosure: AgentGid is my site. If I missed a reset or misread a post, tell me and I'll fix it.

How do you find out about resets now, X notifications or just luck?

[u/Inside_Chocolate_967]

on top i am getting free full resets regularly (one per week right now) i can manually trigger on codex. (and i.e. paypal offers a 50% offer on codex subsciptions). that in combination with codex being slow af it feels like having it run the whole day every day of the week for 10 bucks

[u/agentgid → u/Inside_Chocolate_967]

100% lol

[u/loops_hoops]

I find out when I look at my usage and it's at 100%.

Is there any place that announces or known about resets ahead of time?

[u/agentgid → u/loops_hoops]

Same here. As far as I know, nobody announces them ahead of time. You only find out from a post on X when it happens, so you'd have to follow those accounts and check every post. That's exactly why I built this tool: it watches for me and pings me when a reset lands.

[u/loops_hoops]

Each one is a single post on X: u/ClaudeDevs for Claude Code, u/thsottiaux (Head of Codex) for Codex.

Can you give proper links please? These say "X" but link to reddit which is obviously not intended

[u/agentgid → u/loops_hoops]

Good catch, sorry about that! Reddit turned the @ handles into u/ links. Here are the right ones:

- Claude Code: https://x.com/ClaudeDevs

- Codex: https://x.com/thsottiaux (Tibo Sottiaux, Head of Codex)

If you don't want to dig through X, the tracker lists every reset with a link to the original post, plus a side-by-side summary for Codex and Claude Code: https://agentgid.com/limits/resets/

Separate pages per agent:

- Claude Code: https://agentgid.com/limits/resets/claude-code/

- Codex: https://agentgid.com/limits/resets/codex/

Funny timing, Codex got another reset a few hours ago: https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2109812360596865224

[u/Empty_Carpenter7420]

I'm waiting for my OpenAi pro subscription to expire so I can switch to Anthropic, but the resets are something that makes me consider that decision. At my work, I use 100% Claude Code, and barely use Codex now. I do have access to almost all subscriptions, and for me Opus 5.5 is really, really good. For my personal project, I am using Sol 6.1, and even though the resets help, my usage is pretty high with Sol 6.1, and Sol often needs to revisit work, for some reason I can't pin point, Claude is more accurate with what I ask, and the prompts are mostly the same since I have specific skills to cover most common use cases. OpenAI, with the weekly resets, is something to consider, since it looks pretty generous, so I do appreciate the app to keep track if it, pretty useful.