Timeline

28-day pledge: a daily improvement or a full reset

From Oct 4, every day Codex ships either one clear improvement for most users or a full reset, for 28 days.

Reset fully propagated for paid accounts

The Oct 2 global reset finished landing.

Global reset set for Oct 2 at 10am Pacific

A reset for all paid ChatGPT accounts, after load from the GPT-6.1 Sol launch eased.

Pro $200 plan reopens with a new usage calculation

Usage for the $200 Pro plan is calculated differently, netting out at about half the API-dollar value of the old plan.

Spent subscription credits refunded through Sep 30

To mark a $1B revenue run-rate, subscribers could claim back this month's spent credits, up to 2,000, until Sep 30 at 11:59 PM UTC.

Reset cards for paid ZCode users as a community thank-you

Paid users receive four weekly and four 5-hour reset cards, including those who return within a month; all users also get 100M-token packs from Sep 28 to Oct 7.

Resets fully propagated for paid users

The announced resets finished landing.

Reset promised after a brief outage

Codex was back and a reset for all paid users was promised.

Banked reset reported with the GPT-6 launch

The launch post is cut off in public previews; the banked reset for Plus, Pro and Business is reported by a third-party tracker, so it is held for review.

Opus 5.5 brings a savable reset and higher 5-hour limits

Pro, Max and Team users get a reset to use any time until Oct 22, and 5-hour session limits rise 20%.

Reset promised for Tuesday

Posted late Monday US time: the promised reset was due that Tuesday.

Reset fully propagated for paid users

Usage limits were reset and the rollout completed.

Replacement banked reset after some failed to apply

Anyone who used a banked reset during a faulty window received another, plus an apology email.

Global reset announced for the week

A global usage reset for all paid subscriptions was promised in a long post.

Full banked reset as Astra rolls out early

Plus, Pro and Business users got a full banked reset because Astra shipped ahead of schedule.

Second Astra banked reset for Plus and Business users

Users still without Astra access received a banked reset by end of day.

Weekly limits reset for everyone on Max

Timed to the Fable 5.1 launch and a long weekend, so Max subscribers could keep building. Announced by a Claude Code engineer, not the main account.

Banked reset for each day without Astra access

Paid users without Astra access get one banked reset per day, starting that day.

Reset alongside the Fable 5.1 launch

5-hour and weekly limits were reset for all users on launch day.

Reset Card for every subscriber on the plan anniversary

Each current subscriber received a card that refills both the weekly and 5-hour quotas when used.

Reset at 25M users

Usage reset for every paid ChatGPT Work and Codex subscription.

Weekly limits rise 25% permanently from Sep 14

The standard weekly limit in Claude Code goes up for Pro, Max, Team and seat-based Enterprise; the temporary 50% increase stays until then.

GLM-5.3-Flash arrives with 3x the GLM-5.3 quota

On Coding Plan the Flash model gets three times the quota of GLM-5.3, with an extra 1.5x inside ZCode.

Quiet reset confirmed in a reply thread

A reply confirmed an unannounced reset from about 14:00 UTC; the post is context-dependent, so it is held for review.

Sunday reset alongside usage fixes

A reset reached accounts together with fixes to usage accounting.

Banked reset delivered to every paid user at 20M users

Announced earlier the same day as a 20M-user celebration and delivered by evening Pacific time.

The 50% weekly-limit increase is extended through Aug 31

Anthropic hopes to make the increase permanent but warned that capacity may be tight over the following weeks.

Quotas reset with the GLM-5.3 launch

5-hour and weekly usage went back to zero for every Coding Plan user, and GLM-5.3 opened on the free tier.

Reset at 15M users, landing within the hour

A celebratory reset for everyone.

Usage limits reset for all Coding Plan users

A thank-you after ZCode passed one million users.

Promised Monday reset reported done

The post only says it is done; it is read as completion of a reset promised for Monday, so it is held for review.

Reset for all paid users as GPT-5.6 Sol spreads

Limits were reset to celebrate GPT-5.6 Sol being usable almost anywhere.

Seedance 2.5 is unlimited for 7 days for new joiners

Generations with the new video model cost no credits for a week for everyone who signs up that day.

Reset to celebrate a week of efficiency gains

Codex and ChatGPT Work limits were reset so people could run a lot of Luna threads over the weekend.

Seedance 2.5 teased with 14 days of unlimited Seedance

Announced as coming soon: a two-week unlimited window for the Seedance model.

Limits reset for all paid users

A plain reset for paid users of Codex and ChatGPT Work.

Reset after an almost-global overnight outage

Limits were reset for all Codex and ChatGPT Work users after a major outage the previous night.

Reset at 10M users, landing within the hour

A new usage reset for paid users of Codex and ChatGPT Work.

Claude Code weekly limits kept 50% higher through Aug 19

The temporary 50% weekly increase was extended for Pro, Max, Team and seat-based Enterprise users.

Another reset for all paid Codex and ChatGPT Work users

A further full reset, framed as an encore.

Another reset at 9M users

Another reset for Codex and ChatGPT Work users, restoring the weekly allowance.

5-hour and weekly limits reset for all users

Same wording and no stated reason, a week after the previous reset.

Reset at 8M users, with the 5-hour limit still off

Limits were reset for all, and the 5-hour rate limit stayed lifted.

Banked reset added to every account at 7M users

A reset credit went into each account, usable on demand in the desktop app or on the web.

Banked reset added for 500k users

Banked resets became redeemable from web and mobile, not only the desktop app.

Another reset for all ChatGPT Work and Codex users

Expected to land within about 30 minutes.

Reset across Codex and ChatGPT Work, another planned later

Limits were reset and a second reset was flagged for later the same day.

Full reset for ChatGPT Work and Codex

A complete reset of usage limits, propagating within the hour.

5-hour and weekly limits reset for all users

A short announcement with no stated reason.

Reset once Fable 5 was ready to build again

5-hour and weekly limits were reset for everyone when the model became available again.

Another full reset plus a banked one, within the hour

Follows reports that Codex usage was being consumed faster than expected.

Hard reset while a usage investigation continues

A reset for everyone, noting that some users had stacked up to three banked resets.

Usage reset 'on the house' for all Codex users

Landing within a few hours; an investigation had not shown widespread impact and monitoring continued.

Limits reset for everyone across all plans

Follow-up to the weekly-limit display bug: the reset was widened to all users on all plans.

Limits reset for users hit by a wrong weekly-limit display

About 3% of Max and Pro Claude Code users saw an incorrect weekly limit and were sometimes blocked; their limits were reset.

Double reset: a full reset plus one banked

Everyone received a full reset and an additional reset deposited in their bank to use later.

5-hour and weekly limits reset for all users

A short announcement four days after the Fable 5 reset, with no stated reason.

Rate-limit banking launches with a first reset on the house

Go, Plus, Pro and Business users each get a banked reset to use when needed, and a referral adds another one for both people.

Limits reset for everyone on the Fable 5 launch

5-hour and weekly limits were reset for all users to mark the model release.

Reset after three small incidents in a day

Three reliability incidents in 24 hours led to a reset across all paid plans.

Pro and Max limits reset after a subagent usage bug

Some sessions spawned excessive parallel subagents and burned usage faster than expected; limits were reset on Pro and Max.

Limits reset for all paid ChatGPT subscriptions

Weekly and hourly limits were both back to 100%.

Reset after limits drained faster than expected

An optimisation hurt cache hit rates in long sessions; it was rolled back and usage limits were reset.

Limits reset across all paid plans

A weekend reset for every paid plan.

5-hour and weekly limits reset for everyone

A Friday reset of both limit windows for all users.

Reset for all paid plans after a good week

Rate limits were reset for every paid plan to celebrate the week and the GPT-5.5 launch.

Usage limits reset after the Claude Code quality post-mortem

After a post-mortem on three quality issues, all fixed in v2.1.116+, limits were reset for every subscriber.

Reset after a roughly 10-minute Codex incident

The incident was mitigated and a rate limit reset was on its way, with an apology for the disruption.

Reset for Codex's first anniversary

Rate limits were reset across all plans to mark one year of Codex.

Limits reset after an Opus 4.7 long-context billing bug

Subscription rate limits were not adjusted for long-context Opus 4.7 requests; the bug was fixed and 5-hour and weekly limits reset.

Limits reset as the $100 plan launches

A new $100 plan with a large Codex allowance arrived, and limits were reset alongside it.

Reset to mark 3 million weekly Codex users

Weekly users grew from 2 million to 3 million in under a month; limits were reset to celebrate.

Precautionary reset as limit hits increased

Dashboards showed more users hitting rate limits with no clear cause, so limits were reset for all plans.

Reset so everyone can try the new plugins

Codex usage limits were reset across all plans after the plugin launch, and because it had been a while.

Limits reset after Codex stabilised

The team confirmed Codex was stable again and pressed the reset.

Reset promised once a Codex incident settles

Posted after the issue had been stable for hours: a limits reset would follow shortly.

Plus and Pro limits reset amid reports of faster drain

No evidence of a widespread issue, but enough user reports to reset while a review continued.

Plus and Pro limits reset after a 2x promo bug

The doubled-limit promotion was not applied to an estimated 9% of Plus and Pro users; it was fixed and their limits reset.

Rate limits reset after a requests-blocked incident

A change wrongly rejected requests as high cyber risk; it was fixed in about 8 minutes and limits were reset.

Holiday gift: limits reset and doubled until Jan 1

Rate limits were reset and usage limits lifted to 2x the usual until the 1st of January.

Limits reset after the usage-tracking system was rewritten

Instead of backfilling usage after the billing rewrite, everyone got a fresh allowance.

Usage limits reset for everyone

Reset with an apology for a service disruption.

Usage limits reset to ease an ongoing issue

Resetting was the fastest mitigation while the root cause was investigated; it propagated over about 10 minutes.

Rate limits reset for all Codex users

Compensation for unusually high latency in and near the US.

gpt-5-codex-mini launches and Plus, Edu and Team limits rise 50%

The smaller model stretches included usage up to 4x further, and plan limits went up 50% for Plus, Edu and Team.

Rate limits reset after a global Codex outage

A roughly 45-minute outage, global for its last 30 minutes, was resolved and limits were reset.

Usage limits reset for gpt-5-codex users

Reset to make up for slowdowns while extra GPUs were being provisioned.