Codex (OpenAI)
- Type /status in the Codex CLI during an active session.
- Read the row for your window: percentage left and reset time.
- Alternatively open the Codex usage dashboard in your account.
Tool
Will your budget last until the reset?
Codex and Claude give you a reset time and a usage figure, but not whether the two add up. Enter both: the calculator shows when your budget runs dry at that pace and puts the reset into your calendar.
Free and without an account. Your entries stay in this browser, and nothing here connects to your OpenAI or Anthropic account.
Your reset calculator
Two values are enough: the reset time from your account display and your current usage in percent.
Copy it exactly as /status prints it. Do not estimate.
The percentage from the same display. If it shows what is left, use 100 minus that number.
Optional. Enter the expiry date shown in your account or offer.
Until the reset
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Enter a reset time above.
Usage—
Window elapsed—
No values yet
Once the reset time and usage are in, this panel projects your pace forward.
The projection assumes steady usage. Real sessions are bursty: context size, tool calls and model choice all change the pace. Treat the number as orientation, not a promise.
Everything is stored in this browser only (localStorage). Clear removes all of it.
Where to find your values
Claude (Anthropic)
- Open Settings > Usage.
- Read the five-hour window and the weekly limit separately.
- Note that claude.ai, Claude Code and Claude Desktop share the same budget.
Four limits that all go by the same name
Work out which limit you hit first, otherwise you wait for the wrong reset.
Five-hour window
The short-term budget. In Codex, local messages and cloud chats share this window.
You can tell by a reset that is only hours away.
Weekly window
The ceiling above it. It refills independently of the short-term window.
You can tell by a reset measured in days rather than hours.
Context or length limit
Affects this one conversation, not your time budget.
You can tell because a new conversation fixes it immediately.
API limit
A separate billing path with its own rate and spending limits, not part of the subscription.
You can tell by error code 429 and a reference to an API key.
Global Codex resets: what is on record
Alongside the regular windows, OpenAI occasionally resets limits for everyone, at milestones or after incidents. This list only collects events that can be documented publicly, each with its source.
"These resets are not on a weekly schedule. They usually happen around milestones like user growth or product anniversaries … Right now there is not a single official place to track upcoming resets." — OpenAI Support, 20 April 2026
- Most recent documented event
- August 21, 2026
- Documented events
- 10
- Median gap between resets
- 13 days
- Shortest to longest gap
- 1 to 33 days
Important: this list is incomplete. It counts only what is documented here, so the real gaps may be considerably shorter. No next reset can be derived from these numbers, and this page deliberately does not predict one.
- August 21, 2026Banked reset
Banked reset for every Codex and ChatGPT Work user at the milestone of 20 million active users.
20 Million+ Codex users: A free banked reset for everyone · OpenAI Developer Community
- around August 13, 2026Immediate reset
Hard reset for the milestone of 15 million users.
ChatGPT Business account did not receive the Codex 15M-user hard reset · OpenAI Developer Community
- August 10, 2026Immediate reset
A second reset announced in the same breath for the following Monday.
- August 9, 2026Immediate reset
Usage limits reset for all paid ChatGPT Work and Codex accounts to mark GPT-5.6 Sol.
- around July 15, 2026Immediate reset
Hard reset for the milestone of 8 million Codex users.
ChatGPT Business account did not receive the Codex 8M-user hard reset · OpenAI Developer Community
- around July 12, 2026Limit change
Not a reset but a limit change: the five-hour window was temporarily suspended for Plus, Pro and Business.
Clarification on the temporary removal of the Codex five-hour limit · OpenAI Developer Community
- June 12, 2026Banked reset
Introduction of flexible, bankable resets, in response to unsolicited resets hurting some users.
Flexible Rate Limit Resets for Codex and a method to get a Reset · OpenAI Developer Community
- May 23, 2026Immediate reset
Reset for all accounts after a rolled-back optimisation had hurt cache hit rates in long sessions.
Codex Rate Limits reset incoming? (Beitrag 5) · OpenAI Developer Community
- May 16, 2026Immediate reset
Reset announced after two causes of degraded GPT-5.5 quality in Codex had been fixed.
Codex Rate Limits reset incoming? · OpenAI Developer Community
- April 28, 2026Immediate reset
Reset for all paid plans, announced as a celebration of a good week with GPT-5.5.
Codex Rate limits reset for all paid plans April 28, 2026 · OpenAI Developer Community
List last curated: 2026-08-24. New events are verified and added with a source.
What this tool cannot do
- It does not read your account. You type every value in, and your account display always stays the authority.
- It does not predict a global reset. OpenAI itself states that these resets follow no schedule.
- It does not know the size of the weekly limit. OpenAI publishes it for no plan, so anyone quoting an exact number is guessing.
- The projection assumes a steady pace, while real sessions consume in bursts.
Which limit you hit, and what waiting, credits or the API each cost you, is covered in detail in the article.
Read the article on Claude and Codex limits