Weekly limit ran out even though I never hit the 5-hour limit
OpenAI Developer Community
March 18, 2026
I appreciate the suggestion on how to improve this. However, the issue is that I didn’t experience this before — as recently as last week, I often couldn’t even use up the full 5-hour limit and could just keep working without hitting it. The weekly limit would last me around 5–6 days.
At the same time, the size of the project hasn’t changed at all, yet I’m still running into this problem now.
At the moment, I only have one suspicion — the limit starts getting exhausted extremely quickly when there is a fallback from WebSocket to HTTPS.
Because I’ve repeatedly noticed that right after this message appears, I also start seeing warnings that my limit is about to be reached.
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