Simple Request Used 18% of 5 hour limit/6% of Weekly Limit | Reconnecting

[kroth0918]

What version of Codex is running?

(v0.50.0)

What subscription do you have?

Team Pro Subscription

Which model were you using?

GPT-5 (no reasoning)

What platform is your computer?

Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.26200.0 x64

What issue are you seeing?

I asked Codex to format a 2 item dropdown in a simple feedback sheet. It was saying it was working for around 10 minutes which I thought was strange, it then said it was reconnecting. Throughout this time I was at ~78% used for my 5 hour limit. After reconnecting, it shot my 5 hour limit up to 96% after this very simple prompt, it also used over 6% of my weekly limit in that 10 minute "working" disconnection phase.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Session: 019a3568-0772-7031-b1fe-d5d461a63910
Context window was 11% usage, then it switched back to 100% after I cancelled this crazy response.

What is the expected behavior?

Expected behavior was maybe a 45 second working period and a quick update.

Additional information

I would like my usage replenished for this error, I try to get the most of my teams pro subscription before moving over the API, this just ruined my entire usage period.

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

• Both my 5 hours usage was at 0% and my weekly. After 1 prompt, 5 hour usage shot up to 22% and weekly shot upt to 40%. Why would weekly wear out faster than 5 hour? what caused this #5828
• weekly limit run out too fast, the rate about 1/3 5h limit #5844
• cache miss can cause higher usage towards limit than expected #4764
• Codex weekly limits hit on first prompt in VS Code extension #4444
• Usage limit hit despite nothing being done. #4095

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[kroth0918]

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

• Both my 5 hours usage was at 0% and my weekly. After 1 prompt, 5 hour usage shot up to 22% and weekly shot upt to 40%. Why would weekly wear out faster than 5 hour? what caused this #5828
• weekly limit run out too fast, the rate about 1/3 5h limit #5844
• cache miss can cause higher usage towards limit than expected #4764
• Codex weekly limits hit on first prompt in VS Code extension #4444
• Usage limit hit despite nothing being done. #4095

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Similar issues to mine, this is my only issue I have posted though.

[Dylmoco]

Also having codex issues with limits, never even knew limits existed until today, I have done some very light usage, and my 5 hour limit has been reached. Never had this issue even working long ass marathons. Ive contacted support.

[beenycool]

bump
used 5h usage in 30m with the web version
this cannot be that fast

[kroth0918]

bump used 5h usage in 30m with the web version this cannot be that fast

They reset the account limit for my whole team, weekly included, never responded here but I am satisfied haha.

[kroth0918]

Also having codex issues with limits, never even knew limits existed until today, I have done some very light usage, and my 5 hour limit has been reached. Never had this issue even working long ass marathons. Ive contacted support.

They reset the account limit for my whole team, weekly included, never responded here but I am satisfied haha.

[Dylmoco]

@kroth0918 how did you manage to get in contact with them lol? I upgraded to business from plus because of this debacle expecting increased usage, loosing everything in the process (important chat trails codex scripts etc) only to now think its a bug.