Limit hit very early in GPT 5.5

[SirTyson]

What version of Codex CLI is running?

v0.124.0

What subscription do you have?

Bussiness

Which model were you using?

gpt 5.5

What platform is your computer?

No response

What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?

No response

What issue are you seeing?

I'm hitting limits very early in gpt 5.5 usage, even though /status shows that much of my limits remain available:

■ You've hit your usage limit. To get more access now, send a request to your admin or try again at 3:51 PM.

/status




╭─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│  >_ OpenAI Codex (v0.124.0)                                                     │
│                                                                                 │
│  Account:              garand@stellar.org (Business)                            │
│  Collaboration mode:   Default                                                  │
│  Session:              019dbc0d-9976-73d3-8825-dc7f6617aeaf                     │
│                                                                                 │
│  Context window:       68% left (90.7K used / 258K)                             │
│  5h limit:             [████████████████░░░░] 78% left (resets 15:51)           │
│  Weekly limit:         [██████████████░░░░░░] 68% left (resets 11:20 on 28 Apr) │
│  premium limit:                                                                 │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Uploaded thread: 019dbc0d-9976-73d3-8825-dc7f6617aeaf

What is the expected behavior?

No response

Additional information

No response

[github-actions]

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

• reach my limits #17663
• Inconsistent quota display and premature usage-limit error in Codex CLI 0.120.0 #17537
• Credits desync: CLI blocked with "usage limit hit" while UI showed 312 credits, web ui dropped to 0 with no usage recorded. #18083
• Cannot use Codex due hitting the limits, though I didn't reach them #18721
• Proof that there's a bug depleting all my limits! #19123

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[TreeOfLearning]

Yeah. 5h limit hit in a single prompt (24 minutes of work) on plus plan. This is using 5.5 medium.

This works out to 2.5h of work per week. Not really good enough - there is no value there so I may as well save the money.

[Hanrong-Huang]

Same here, I had ~65% weekly limit left and in a few prompts it says I hit my weekly limit.

[mnj]

Same here on Business, barely got a single change through today before it ran out of credits (on medium, fast mode off), also seemed alot worse (or ignoring agents.md) at following your prompts, asked it to work on specific version/part of our monorepo of something, it went and did code for some legacy parts in a wrong place, that it was asked specifically not to touch, one follow up, directing it to the specific path in the source (monorepo) and all credits was gone, by it fixing its mistakes alone.

Similar changes many times in the past, would have taken at most 10% of the 5h credits.

[mctb32]

Same here. I have both Business and Plus accounts and both hit limits super fast in comparison to my earlier work with 5.4.

[fa1ntl1ght]

even two plus subs are cooked on 5.5 low due to 5h limit, insane

[att1sb]

This is absurd.

[jgseddon]

I just ran 3 short simple prompts on 5.4 Medium and maxed out the $20/month plan, what on earth...