Codex Usage Limits Depleting Faster Than Expected

Resolved Minor impact

On June 26, 2026 at 17:04 UTC, OpenAI reported an incident affecting Codex with a minor impact, per its official status page. The disruption lasted 72h 2m and the incident has been fully resolved. IsChatGPTDown.chat mirrors this incident from OpenAI's official record; see the official link below for authoritative details.

Incident Facts

All facts below are taken from OpenAI's official incident record. Fields OpenAI did not publish are shown as “Not provided.”

Started
Resolved
Duration
72h 2m
Affected service
Codex
Severity
Minor
Current state
Resolved

Timeline

Official update history from OpenAI's status page.

  1. Investigating We are investigating reports that Codex usage limits are being consumed faster than expected.
  2. Monitoring We have identified that some reports of Codex usage limits depleting faster than expected are related to our abuse and fraud prevention systems incorrectly rate limiting certain accounts. The impact appears limited, and we have not observed broader degradation to Codex usage. We are continuing to monitor the situation.
  3. Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered.

Related troubleshooting

The affected services are listed above from OpenAI's official record. If you run into a similar problem, the guides below help you check whether it is a current outage or an issue limited to your setup.