Codex Outage Burns Through Paid Quotas, No Compensation
After an roughly 8-hour outage, OpenAI's Codex restored service but did not compensate users' usage quotas, with some burning 6% of their weekly GPT-6 Pro allowance just on troubleshooting, sparking billing complaints.
2026-09-26 ~ 2026-09-26 · 2 related posts
- Episode 1: Users report Codex credits burning faster than usual(2026-09-12, 5 posts)
- Episode 2: Paying users complain Codex subscription limits drain far too fast(2026-09-18, 7 posts)
- Episode 3: Pro Users Swarm With Complaints Over Codex and Astra Usage Limits(2026-09-19, 14 posts)
- Episode 4: Users Accuse OpenAI of Repackaging Terra as Sol While Cutting Usage Limits(2026-09-23, 2 posts)
- Episode 5: Users Slam OpenAI Codex for Runaway Quota Consumption(2026-09-24, 4 posts)
- Episode 6: OpenAI Codex suffers global outage, restores service and resets paid usage(2026-09-26, 28 posts)
- Episode 7: Codex Outage Burns Through Paid Quotas, No Compensation(2026-09-26, 2 posts)
- Episode 8: OpenAI Codex Users Protest Sudden Quota Hard Resets(2026-09-27, 2 posts)
- Episode 9: User Math: Codex Reset 15 Times in 60 Days, 174% Extra Quota(2026-09-30, 2 posts)
- Episode 10: OpenAI Users Fury Over Botched Codex Quota Resets(2026-10-03, 3 posts)
- Episode 11: Codex Quota Resets Ignore Time Zones, Users Lose Credits(2026-10-05, 3 posts)
- Codex users say no usage reset or compensation after today's downtime — CtrlAltDwayne · 2026-09-26
- Codex outage burns 6% of weekly GPT-6 Pro x20 allowance on troubleshooting — johnseach · 2026-09-26