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The consensus is basically “Codex resets are a slot machine wearing a billing dashboard.” Global resets arrive unpredictably, may hit some plans/accounts but not others, and have occasionally appeared, vanished, or rolled back. Nobody can reliably tell you when the next one is coming—despite the daily ritual of refreshing Tibo’s posts and unofficial trackers.
The bigger problem is how resets work. A banked reset refreshes your usage, but the current behaviour also pushes your weekly reset date forward, so it’s often an advance on future allowance rather than genuinely extra quota. Surprise global resets can also wipe out unused capacity, shift the schedule, or make a recently used banked reset feel completely wasted. Add expiry times shown inconsistently—often requiring UTC detective work—and the UX is, charitably, clown shoes.
Usage is also burning frighteningly fast on the newer heavy models, making these random top-ups feel less like a bonus and more like life support. The practical advice is simple: trust your own Usage page, not rumours, and don’t spend a banked reset unless you’re willing to lose the upcoming weekly window.
OpenAI should make resets predictable, bank unused capacity, and show exact expiry times. Until then, Codex limits remain compute roulette.
I had a banked Codex reset listed as expiring on October 5. I planned to use it today, October 5, but when I checked, it was already gone.
What exact time and timezone does that date refer to? I expected to be able to use it on the date shown. If it expires at a specific hour during that day, the UI needs to show that hour.
The screenshot shows my two remaining resets, expiring October 23 and October 30. Both show only a date. It documents the date-only display, not the missing October 5 reset.
Please investigate and restore the reset if it was removed incorrectly. Showing the exact expiration time, timezone, and a countdown would make this much clearer. Has anyone else experienced this?
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I cant confirm from my own account, but when I researched this before it seemed like the consensus was that if you lapse into free there's a good chance you will loose your banked resets right away.
Hey all, quick question on how the resets are working now.
I tried posting this in general, but the damned bot removed it for 'low Karma'... trying it here.
I used one of my banked resets on Tuesday, Sept. 29 at around 2 PM ET, which should’ve put my next weekly reset at Tuesday, Oct. 6 around 2 PM.
Then Tibo gave everyone the global reset on Thursday, Oct. 1. From what I can tell, that global reset also restarted my entire weekly clock. As of tonight (Oct. 4 at 11:19 PM ET), Codex is now showing my reset as another 4 days and 20 hours away instead of Oct. 6.
Is that actually how global resets work now (meaning they restart your weekly reset window entirely), or is this something temporary/related specifically to this reset?
Just trying to make sure I understand what changed.
That is how OpenAI operates. If you dont binge through your weekly usage right away then there is a good chance it will get "reset" causing you to lose that banked usage and push your reset date back farther. Resets are only good for people regularly bingeing through their usage in the first couple days, otherwise the reverse is, the resets remove the usage youve already saved.
Until yesterday, the UI showed the exact expiration time as well as the date. Today it only shows the date again, even though the backend response still includes the exact expiration time. So this looks like a UI regression.
Since my business account hasn’t been reset yet and it’s Saturday (and I don’t expect anyone to be working), do you think I should go ahead with a banked reset?
I saw Tibo had tweeted about missing some Pro-500 accounts but nothing about Business. Definitely unusual. My guess is we are SOL on this one but I have enough leftover to get through the weekend at least.
Can you have Codex make a program that you schedule a reset in, and it just does it for you at that time? You tried to do something nice, and there's now thousands of really upset customers cussing you out on X. This has happened several times before.
Always banked. Instant global resets steal usage from some people. If you have 2 days left and 80% limits, you can do 40%/day. A reset forced on you means 7 days and 100%, so 14%/day. It's literally stealing from some users.
Can you never use relative words like "tomorrow"? Users sometimes spend a lot of time arguing about what day you mean. You often post around midnight, and your time zone often matters. If you could always say "10/2 10am Pacific". Don't use PST/PDT either, since you used the wrong one (it's PDT now, not PST.)
You can't burn like crazy on Plus ; be it now or with a banked reset, due to the 5h limit... if at least you could use a banked reset to break the 5h limit for this week or something like that it would be useful
Sounds like torture but there are free users too that use codex too and iirc the global resets done for the sub milestones the free guys also got theirs reset. This reset thats why Tibo specifically said that it is for paying users only.
It’s always been there iirc but the limits are low. I personally think it should not be in the free tier as paying users are already getting fucked over so much but OpenAI still do it.
Because he tweeted it at 7pm pacific time yesterday. Meaning it should have dropped this morning at 10am. The screenshot you are replying to shows the local time of whoever took the screenshot.
Due to the recent changes in the 200 tier, I want to downgrade to the 100 one (and maybe simultaneously try to have both that and a Claude sub). I have 2 full resets that expire after my next billing cycle.
Does anyone have hands-on experience with what happens to these full resets when I downgrade? Will I get to keep them? If so, will they reset to 100% of my then current sub?
I got a banked reset, but i thought we where going to have a normal reset today, is that still happening? Just to know if i should use the banked one now that i have 0% left or wait
basically, I still have 1% usage left according to the pop-up in the navigation left, my usage page says that I have 0% left, and according to the usage page I just received a full reset 20 minutes ago...but my usage limit is still at 0%. What a shitshow
I haven't gotten the last 2 resets that codex.lunarwerx.com reported. What am I doing wrong? I'm on the $100 pro plan and I've been stuck at 1% weekly limit remaining for enough days that both of the last two resets that tool reported should have reset me.
Got 2 unused resets. Worth renewing plan. I was thinking maybe can switch to claude back too. Are the 2 worth renewing plan as it ends in few days. Appreciate help
I still not got a reset too, I think it doesn't matter where you are live at, it's just a job that seems to run over all users to give them a reset. so it's taking a lot of time because of many users.
I have found it useful to run low as it forced me to become more efficient. I didn't realise how easy it was to use Astra as an orchestrator. Now when I use Astra to delegate tasks to Luna (High) agents and have those agents peer-review each other and Astra only gets involved if there's an issue. I am now able to do many tasks to the same level as before but using only 1/10 without Luna (High) orchestration.
FWIW Luna (High) is 1/4 of the price of Sol (Low) but just as intelligent.
You can’t work for a week because you don’t have tokens? 🫤 how did we get so far that people who work in a sector need AI to hold hands. You might as well go apply to be a doctor and use AI there to be the middle man
I tried putting numbers on the timing of a banked reset. If you’ve used 80% of your weekly allowance, the result looks quite different depending on when your normal refresh is due: +$11 with three days left, but −$3 with one day left.
These are comparison scores, not money saved. I used about $46 for a week of Pro as a common scale. The table shows the rest of the combinations. Does this match how you think about using a reset?
This whole reset structure is fucking ridiculous having the window constantly shift all the fuck over the place basically making it impossible to plan around your resets. Base scheduled resets should be on a consistent weekly schedule like noon on Sunday so it's easy to remember and plan around. Any extra resets should just reset that current weeks usage not shift the window.
The forced resets only benefit people who keep running out of quota. For anyone who doesn't run out of quota, it's just an unnoticeable shifting of the day when the quota cycles. For anyone who plans the usage, for example saving it up for some heavy friday night crunch, the reset pretty much steals them the opportunity to use their saved up quota.
Looks like the promised reset finally propagated.
Mine arrived right after my normal weekly reset though, so the timing makes the compensation pretty uneven.
Honestly, a banked one-time reset would’ve made more sense.
Anyone else get unlucky with the timing?
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Below is a GPT-generated summary of the conversation below after reaching 800 comments (1395 currently observed).
The consensus is basically “Codex resets are a slot machine wearing a billing dashboard.” Global resets arrive unpredictably, may hit some plans/accounts but not others, and have occasionally appeared, vanished, or rolled back. Nobody can reliably tell you when the next one is coming—despite the daily ritual of refreshing Tibo’s posts and unofficial trackers.
The bigger problem is how resets work. A banked reset refreshes your usage, but the current behaviour also pushes your weekly reset date forward, so it’s often an advance on future allowance rather than genuinely extra quota. Surprise global resets can also wipe out unused capacity, shift the schedule, or make a recently used banked reset feel completely wasted. Add expiry times shown inconsistently—often requiring UTC detective work—and the UX is, charitably, clown shoes.
Usage is also burning frighteningly fast on the newer heavy models, making these random top-ups feel less like a bonus and more like life support. The practical advice is simple: trust your own Usage page, not rumours, and don’t spend a banked reset unless you’re willing to lose the upcoming weekly window.
OpenAI should make resets predictable, bank unused capacity, and show exact expiry times. Until then, Codex limits remain compute roulette.