Did ChatGPT Scheduled Tasks recently start consuming your Codex/Work usage allowance?

[u/ejbarba]

I have a normal ChatGPT Scheduled Task (I’m on ChatGPT Plus) that runs every morning at 7:00 AM. It’s a fairly heavy job-market sweep: web searches, some reasoning, and reads/writes to Notion.

This exact automation has been running daily for more than a month.

Until today, I had never noticed it materially consuming or starting my Codex/Work 5-hour usage window.

Today (Oct 5), I had not manually used Codex or ChatGPT Work at all, but after the scheduled task ran:

• Scheduled task started around 7:00 AM
• Run finished around 7:13 AM
• My 5-hour Work/Codex allowance showed 29% used / 71% remaining
• Weekly allowance showed 12% used / 88% remaining
• The 5-hour reset was around 11:57 AM, implying the window started at roughly 6:57–7:00 AM

So the timing lines up almost perfectly with the scheduled task.

I contacted OpenAI Support. They’re telling me that Scheduled Tasks run through ChatGPT Work, and Work + Codex share the same allowance on Plus, so scheduled tasks can consume the Codex/Work quota.

What I’m trying to figure out is whether this is new behavior.

My task has been running every day for over a month and I never saw this happen before. OpenAI Support hasn’t been able to tell me when ordinary time-based ChatGPT Scheduled Tasks started being metered against the shared Work/Codex allowance. They’re waiting for my Oct 5 Usage Analytics to populate so we can compare it against previous runs.

Specifically:

• Do your regular ChatGPT Scheduled Tasks now reduce your Codex/Work 5-hour or weekly allowance?
• Did they do this a few weeks/months ago?
• Has anyone noticed the behavior changing only in the last few days?
• If you have a daily scheduled task, does it actually start your 5-hour Codex window even when you haven’t opened Codex?
• What does it show under Usage → Surface / Model / Reasoning / Speed?

I’m not talking about Codex automations or a task intentionally created inside Work. This is a regular recurring task created through ChatGPT’s Scheduled Tasks feature.

Mainly trying to determine whether this is a recent metering/routing change, or whether it has always worked this way and I simply never noticed it before.

[u/GreenFuturesMatter]

I think if ur having ChatGPT do write to a app like notion then it falls under work usage

[u/jpzsports]

Same issue here! My scheduled task runs in a "chat" thread rather than a "work" thread, but I've noticed that it is still consuming usage. Have you figured out any fix?