Current usage limits make Codex unusable
OpenAI Developer Community
April 4, 2026
Yeah, i have also opened another topic regarding this matter, thread: “codex-limits-finally-good-after-april-1st-reset” floating in newest topics.
Its going nuts now. I am running Business accounts with multiple user for multiple devs.
Yesterday and today the workflow is basically this:
* Dev logins into CODEX on IDE
* Sends 3 tasks
* Dev must logout, ask me for new login approval
* Dev then does again 3 tasks, logs out
* To infinity this loop…
Weekly limits seems like fair and ok IMO. But 5H its going absolute nuts. Each task eats 20-30% of 5H range.
You can actually test it by just writing something simple, just talking with it and you gonna see that it will suck 10% to answer
Also i have noticed the quality of the work went down from codex
But yes, its is becoming absolutely unusable at this point.
Im running GPT 5.4, Medium, Full access, Locally - no MCP connectors, nothing just purely controlled by core agent. So my tasks are super efficient and accurate.
We tired working on GPT5.3-codex, little better situation - you can produce just a little more but still same - 5H gets wiped off super fast.
The only choice is API or new Codex account credits at this point but budget must be super high, you can easily spend 50-100$ a day.
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