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Description #
Summary #
Starting ~June 16, my ChatGPT Plus Codex budget drains in 2–3 prompts on gpt-5.5
, where the same model/plan/app previously gave 20+ prompts. My Codex session logs (token_count
/ rate_limits
events) show the limit-% consumed per token has increased roughly 10–20×, with no change on my side — prompts are actually smaller now and reasoning tokens are near zero.
Environment #
- Codex desktop app, Windows 11
- Model:
gpt-5.5
,service_tier = "default"
- Plan:
plus
(confirmed inrate_limits.plan_type
) - Config unchanged across the regression window
Evidence — same plan, same model, same app #
June 12 (working — 20+ prompts/day):
| Prompt | Input tokens | Reasoning tokens | Primary limit % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 06:08 | 22,334 | 488 | 2% |
| 06:09 | 52,161 | 1,130 | 3% |
| 06:51 | 57,112 | 3,645 | 9% → 11% |
| 06:54 | 79,961 | 5,125 | 15% → 16% |
→ ~57K-token prompt with 3.6K reasoning ≈ 1% of the 5h budget
June 18 (broken — 2–3 prompts): | Prompt | Input tokens | Reasoning tokens | Primary limit % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 07:22:27 | 18,910 | 152 | 18% |
| 07:22:30 | 20,480 | 0 | 45% |
| 07:22:34 | 23,469 | 48 | 57% |
| 07:22:43 | 23,631 | 0 | 68% |
| 07:22:50 | 23,839 | 0 | 77% |
→ ~20K-token prompt with zero reasoning ≈ 10–27% of the 5h budget
Per-token limit cost changed ~10–20×. Smaller prompts, near-zero reasoning, yet each consumes 10–20× more of the 5-hour budget than a 57K-token xhigh prompt did on June 12.
What I ruled out (verified from logs) #
Not reasoning effort: reasoning tokens are 0–152 today vs 3,645–5,125 on the good days.Not prompt/context bloat: input tokens dropped from 57K–80K to 18K–23K.Not my config:model_reasoning_effort
was alreadyhigh
/xhigh
on the working days (June 12–15). xhigh gave 30–40+ prompts on June 3, 12, 13, 15.Not the weekly cap: secondary window is only at 12%. The 5-hour window is the one draining.
Corroborating timing #
OpenAI status page shows an active incident ongoing ~2 days (since ~June 16), which matches exactly when my usable prompt count dropped from ~9 sessions/day to ~4.
Ask #
Was the Plus-tier gpt-5.5
rate-limit budget reduced or the per-token weighting changed around June 16? If intentional, what's the new budget? If not, can it be investigated?
Session log references #
- Good day:
`rollout-2026-06-12T09-07-36-019eba71-5c57-70d0-a8fa-aa999731e9ff.jsonl`
- Bad day:
`rollout-2026-06-18T10-22-14-019ed99b-ea9d-7fa1-a86b-dca4e55a8e3e.jsonl`
- Rate-limit data is in
token_count
events withrate_limits
payload (fields:primary.used_percent
,secondary.used_percent
,plan_type
,resets_at
).
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appIssues related to the Codex desktop appIssues related to the Codex desktop app
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