OpenAI Plus web chat feels unlimited, but Codex quota runs out in under 20 prompts

Acceptable-War4836 · reddit · 2026-07-23

The poster says they can use OpenAI’s web chat on Plus almost every day with what feels like unlimited access, but hit a large chunk of their weekly Codex quota after fewer than 20 prompts.

They ask how OpenAI can sustain the cost difference between the two experiences, implying that web chat and Codex are metered very differently despite both feeling like “cloud coding agents” to the user.

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