TIMELINE
Every verified Codex reset, on the record.
These dots and rows show announcement time unless a later effective time has been independently verified. Preview windows stay marked as previews; they are never backfilled as actual reset arrival times without source proof.
last reset 3d ago · counting since 2026-07-21
events
37
recorded
resets
29
verified global
boosts
6
incl. unlocks
banked
2
credit drops
pace
~11d
between resets
Every announcement, date × hour
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| 2026-07-21 16:47 UTC | RESETPREVIEW | 10M users: new usage reset for paid Codex and ChatGPT Work users, landing within the hour. | milestone | source ↗ |
| 2026-07-18 03:28 UTC | RESET | Oops... I did it again. Enjoy reset usage limits for all paid users for Codex and ChatGPT Work. Super grateful for an incredible team who is iterating at lightspeed and keeping… | — | source ↗ |
| 2026-07-16 04:14 UTC | RESET | 9M active users: another reset, restoring 100% weekly usage limit. | milestone | source ↗ |
| 2026-07-14 19:34 UTC | RESET | 8M active users across Codex and ChatGPT Work: reset for all, and still no 5h rate limit, to explore GPT-5.6 Sol. | milestone, launch, unlock | source ↗ |
| 2026-07-13 18:29 UTC | BANKED | 7M active users milestone: added a banked reset to every account, appliable on demand from desktop/web. | milestone, banked | source ↗ |
| 2026-07-12 21:28 UTC | BANKED | Added a banked reset to 500k ChatGPT Work/Codex users; shipped banked-reset redemption on web and mobile. | launch, banked | source ↗ |
| 2026-07-11 05:54 UTC | RESETPREVIEW | Introducing... another usage limit reset for all our ChatGPT Work and Codex users. Should land over next 30 minutes. Hope you have an awesome weekend. Thank you for pushing our… | promo | source ↗ |
| 2026-07-10 17:59 UTC | RESETPREVIEW | Hello beautiful people! We have reset usage limits across Codex and ChatGPT Work. And another one will come later in the day. Rejoice. Now that I have your attention, a quick… | — | source ↗ |
| 2026-07-09 21:24 UTC | RESETPREVIEW | Enjoy a full reset of your usage limits for ChatGPT Work and Codex. Propagating in the next hour. @_rajanagarwal just joined to work on model research and push on coding… | — | source ↗ |
| 2026-06-29 23:39 UTC | RESETPREVIEW | Full reset within the hour plus one additional banked reset, after usage was being consumed faster than expected. | banked, compensation | source ↗ |
| 2026-06-28 23:54 UTC | RESET | As we are still investigating, I have reset everyone's Codex usage limits. This is a hard reset given some users had stacked up to three banked resets already that they can apply… | — | source ↗ |
| 2026-06-26 23:39 UTC | RESETPREVIEW | We are giving all Codex users a usage reset on the house. Should be showing in your accounts in the next few hours. We have applied some mitigations, but our investigation hasn't… | incident, promo | source ↗ |
| 2026-06-18 00:10 UTC | RESET | "Sneaky double reset": full reset applied plus an extra reset deposited into the reset bank. | — | source ↗ |
| 2026-06-04 00:25 UTC | RESET | Hi. Over the last 24 hours we had three separate small incidents that affected Codex reliability. Those are three too many and we are taking active steps for them to not… | incident | source ↗ |
| 2026-05-31 15:25 UTC | RESET | The Codex usage limits have been reset for all paid ChatGPT subscriptions. You should be back to 100% weekly and 100% hourly limits. Let the tokens do incredible things today and… | — | source ↗ |
| 2026-05-23 20:14 UTC | RESET | Some of you noticed limits drained faster in Codex, we root caused it to an optimization that we rolled back that had an impact on cache hit rates when compacting across long… | incident | source ↗ |
| 2026-05-16 17:51 UTC | RESET | Codex usage limits have now been reset across all paid plans. Enjoy the weekend! | promo | source ↗ |
| 2026-04-28 05:28 UTC | BOOST | Reset Codex rate limits for ALL paid plans to celebrate a good week and let everyone build with GPT-5.5. | launch, promo | source ↗ |
| 2026-04-20 23:15 UTC | RESET | Codex incident is mitigated, seeing recovery. Lasted about 10 mins, Codex itself helped with the remediation, but ultimately the insight came from a human this time. Apologies for… | incident, compensation | source ↗ |
| 2026-04-17 00:58 UTC | BOOST | Codex 1-year anniversary: let Codex reset its own rate limits across all plans. | milestone | source ↗ |
| 2026-04-09 17:51 UTC | BOOST | Launched the $100 plan with a lot of included Codex usage; reset limits alongside it. | launch | source ↗ |
| 2026-04-07 23:13 UTC | BOOST | 3M weekly Codex users milestone (up from 2M a month earlier); reset rate limits to celebrate. | milestone, promo | source ↗ |
| 2026-04-01 07:48 UTC | RESET | Our Codex dashboards are showing increased rate of users hitting rate limits and since we don't fully understand why I have made the cautious decision of resetting the usage… | — | source ↗ |
| 2026-03-27 01:52 UTC | RESET | Hello. We have reset Codex usage limits across all plans to let everyone experiment with the magnificent plugins we just launched, and because it had been a while! You can just… | launch | source ↗ |
| 2026-03-11 05:38 UTC | RESET | OK, Codex is back and stable and we should be good for a while. Reset button pressed, should see it in a bit | incident | source ↗ |
| 2026-03-10 03:51 UTC | RESET | This codex issue is now fully resolved and stable for the last couple of hours. You have come to expect it, but yes, that means we will be reseting rate limits in a bit. Enjoy. | incident | source ↗ |
| 2026-03-08 02:42 UTC | RESET | We don’t have evidence of a widespread issue with codex usage being drained faster than it should but there are enough reports and we have reset rate limits for plus & pro… | incident | source ↗ |
| 2026-03-04 21:30 UTC | RESET | Fixed a bug where the 2X promotional limit increase was not applied to ~9% of Plus/Pro users; reset limits to compensate. | incident, compensation | source ↗ |
| 2026-03-03 01:50 UTC | RESET | Codex is back up. We introduced an issue that caused requests to be blocked and rejected as high cyber risk. This was fixed in ~8 mins and we are now back online and fully… | incident | source ↗ |
| 2025-12-25 08:01 UTC | UNLOCK | Holiday gift: reset rate limits AND lifted usage limits to 2X the usual until Jan 1. | promo, unlock | source ↗ |
| 2025-12-19 22:01 UTC | RESET | We rewrote the underlying system to track and bill usage in Codex and we have reset usage limits in the process. Backfilling is time consuming and it’s more fun to give free… | — | source ↗ |
| 2025-12-17 02:18 UTC | RESET | 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 apologies for the disruption. | compensation | source ↗ |
| 2025-12-02 22:49 UTC | RESET | We have reset the usage limits for everyone in Codex, which helps us mitigate the issue the fastest and the team will continue to work on the underlying cause. This should… | incident | source ↗ |
| 2025-11-22 23:13 UTC | RESET | We have reset rate limits for all Codex users to compensate for the unusual high latencies in or near the US in the previous hours. Grateful for the team working hard behind the… | compensation | source ↗ |
| 2025-11-07 18:27 UTC | BOOST | Released gpt-5-codex-mini (up to 4X more usage included), increased usage limits by 50% for Plus/Edu/Team plans, and gave Pro priority processing. | launch | source ↗ |
| 2025-11-05 20:19 UTC | RESET | Codex outage resolved. We suffered a minor outage for last 45 minutes which turned into a global outage for last 30 minutes, this is now resolved and we have reset the rate… | incident | source ↗ |
| 2025-09-17 04:02 UTC | RESET | 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 make up for the slowdowns earlier while we were provisioning… | incident, launch | source ↗ |
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