GPT 5.5 Codex Quota Drains Quickly
OpenAI Developer Community
May 16, 2026
Because of the rate it which 5.5 (and 5.4) absolutely torches quota - I’ve dropped back to the 5.3 model and careful agents/skills & prompt engineering - the token burn vs model just isn’t there. No point in using a wizzbang model if it does nothing but burn tokens for minimal output.
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