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Codex usage got decreased by 2-4 times. #13167
Description
What issue are you seeing?
The current token burning rate increased a lot in the last 2-3 days.
Reddit is full of posts about this. So this is not just perception.
I also track my token usage and the % variation daily. And it clearly has changed without OpenAI notifying anything.
What happened?
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Track your tokens and % daily and you can see the burning rate changes.
What is the expected behavior?
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github-actions commentedon Mar 1, 2026
Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.
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abulgher commentedon Mar 1, 2026
We all had the same impression. They claimed they have not changed anything.
etraut-openai commentedon Mar 1, 2026
We have not changed usage limits. If you are experiencing higher burn rates, then you are using more tokens. We have been rolling out various performance improvements, so you should see more work done by your agent in a shorter amount of time. That may contribute to the impression that usage is disappearing faster than before.
smileBeda commentedon Mar 1, 2026
How’s it possible that an avalanche of users suddenly do „more“ than before?
I for once run a benchmark like this:
So, there’s something wrong here
o6uoq commentedon Mar 2, 2026
Could this be related to version
0.106.0and using multi-agents ?Joe-le-Tekkie commentedon Mar 3, 2026
We are absolutely not making this up. I've been using Codex since inception. My tokens in the last few days are getting burnt unbelievably fast. Usage is no different than before. Have you not considered that something else might be at play here rather than changed usage limits being responsible for this?
etraut-openai commentedon Mar 3, 2026
We're investigating the issue and have some theories that we're tracking down. We're tracking the issue in #13186.
etymon123 commentedon Jun 10, 2026
How is it possible that an avalanche of users suddenly makes "more" than before?
We're not making anything up. I've been using Codex since the beginning. My tokens have been consumed at an unbelievable rate in the last few days. Usage hasn't changed at all. Didn't you consider that there might be another factor at play, besides the change in usage limits? What used to take 30 days was consumed in 3 days, for very basic things. Unacceptable, I'm going to explore other models.