Codex is charging excessive credits for use, not consistent with 1 week ago

[pfahlr]

What version of Codex is running?

codex-cli 0.44.0

What subscription do you have?

Plus

Which model were you using?

gpt-5-codex

What platform is your computer?

Linux 6.16.10-200.fc42.x86_64 x86_64 unknown

What issue are you seeing?

Codex is consuming usage limits much faster than just a few days ago.
I ran something like 5 or so tasks before it told me I had reached the 5 hour limit... this is a radical change from the last time I used the service just a week ago. If you look at my screen shot, notice my usage on oct 22... this did not trigger any limits... but here nov 5, showing a sliver of use by comparison, triggered the limit. I even purchased the extended credits... and it seems to be charging me something like 1-2$ per task... (i managed to use up nearly 200 credits in just over 1 hour).

This seemed a bit extreme, so I checked the forums... and it seems it is not just me...
https://community.openai.com/t/codex-using-up-massive-credits-850-credits-5-hour-limit-used-on-only-8-queries/1364774/16
https://community.openai.com/t/pro-plan-hit-5-hour-limit-twice-in-2h-and-1-5h-and-nearly-exhausted-weekly-cap-in-1-day-after-today-s-update/1364782/20

This affects both codex CLI and web

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Codex CLI

1. run codex
2. dispatch a task
3. open codex on web
4. click settings
5. click usage
   6a) see that usage percentage for 5 hour period and 7 day period are using far more proportion than expected.
   OR 6b) see that far more credits are consumed than expected.

Web

1. Login to open ai
2. go to codex
3. dispatch several tasks
4. click settings
5. click usage
   6a) see that usage percentage for 5 hour period and 7 day period are using far more proportion than expected.
   OR 6b) see that far more credits are consumed than expected.

What is the expected behavior?

Additional information

No response

[github-actions]

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

• Codex Cloud Rate Limit issue #6008
• Codex Web: Only 4 Messages to hit 5 hour limit??? #6145
• Simple Request Used 18% of 5 hour limit/6% of Weekly Limit | Reconnecting #5977
• Token usage spikes too quickly in Codex CLI sessions #6113
• too much usage #6105

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[rymatoi]

"if they will pay x100 more, we will earn x100 more" - openai, probably

[rymatoi]

this costed 13% of 5hr usage and 3% of weekly usage
insanity

upd. not 13, this is 26%

[rymatoi]

this is 75% of first 5 hrs and 25% of second 5 hrs 100% of usage

and funniest part is that my previous comment was at 84 % and then i went for breakfast to return to 74% of no-use

[pfahlr]

This is what I'm seeing as of Nov 11 at 1:51 AM EST.

I thought maybe something adjusted, but I was just able to run more tasks if I used the local CLI version of codex... still very few operations relative to what I've been able to run in the past.

[etraut-openai]

Closing in favor of #6172