Frustrated with new Codex Limits for the Pro Users
OpenAI Developer Community
May 15, 2026
Serdjio:
> At minimum, the UI should explain the limits honestly, and there should be some fallback/basic model for audits, tests, or smaller tasks after the main quota is exhausted.
This honestly hadn’t occurred to me until you pointed out the problem, but anyone dealing with a standard IT sysadmin will recognise this: Q: “why didn’t you tell me that in the first place??” A: “because you didn’t ask?”
Next time I use codex-cli I will ask it the question, “if i use 5.5 for this task, will you run out of ‘tokens’ before we are even done?”
Let’s just pray the answer isn’t:
A: “i’m sorry, you’ve reached your token limit by asking that question”
Which… yeah. There should be clear costs with estimates up-front.
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