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Limits decrease without using any OpenAI product #15094

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@nishikawa7863

What issue are you seeing?

Like many others affected by the aggressive weekly limit consumption, I completely stopped using all OpenAI products and switched to an alternative. My weekly quota resets on Wednesdays. I logged back in today (Wednesday, March 18) to check my account status, expecting a full reset. Instead, I'm already showing 3% consumed on the 5-hour rolling limit and 1% consumed on the weekly limit, without having opened a single OpenAI product since last week.

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What steps can reproduce the bug?

Stop using all OpenAI products entirely (CLI, ChatGPT, API. everything).
Wait for the weekly quota to reset (Wednesday).
Log in and open the Codex CLI.
Check the usage/limits dashboard.
Observe that usage has already been deducted despite zero activity.

What is the expected behavior?

After a full reset cycle with zero usage of any OpenAI product, both the 5-hour rolling limit and the weekly limit should show 0% consumed / 100% remaining.

Additional information

  • Account type: Pro
  • Last week my weekly quota was fully exhausted by Thursday despite moderate usage.
  • I have not used the CLI, ChatGPT, the API, or any OpenAI-integrated tool since before the reset.
  • No background processes, IDE integrations, or third-party apps are configured to use my OpenAI credentials.
  • Screenshot of the usage dashboard showing the phantom consumption is attached.

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    CLIIssues related to the Codex CLI
    rate-limitsIssues related to rate limits, quotas, and token usage reporting
    on Mar 18, 2026
  2. DeanStr commented on Mar 18, 2026

    @DeanStr

    Possibly similar to what I've observed, it was just more visible because it was coming out of my spark usage #13854

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