Peak-hour OpenAI subscription use can burn 3-4x the quota, users find
Strange_Owl_6291 · reddit · 2026-09-26
Reddit users report OpenAI's weekly quota seemingly shrinking. Developer Conny, while building a coding harness, traced a likely root cause: a delay between cache write and cache availability, which grows longer at peak hours and inflates quota consumption 3-4x. Since it's server-side, all coding agents and harnesses are affected equally; working off-peak is the only workaround until OpenAI fixes it.
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