Codex: 5h usage limit restored for Plus accounts · Aug 24, 2026
At a glance
Tibo announced that the 5-hour usage limit will be restored tomorrow for Plus accounts across ChatGPT, Work, and Codex to help smooth compute load.
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- Codex
- Event type
- Policy Change
- Evidence status
- Directly verified
- Published
What Changed
Codex: 5h usage limit restored for Plus accounts · Aug 24, 2026
Verification
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- Original source
- Status
- Directly verified
Summary AI summary
Tibo announced that the 5-hour usage limit will be restored tomorrow for Plus accounts across ChatGPT, Work, and Codex to help smooth compute load.
What does this mean?
This is a public limit, rate-limit, or subscription-policy change, not a statement about an individual account balance.
Type
Policy Change
Event dates
- Published
- Record updated
Original Source Evidence
Tomorrow we will bring back the 5h limit for Plus accounts across ChatGPT Work and Codex. I had mentioned this a while ago, but then postponed it.
This is necessary as (a) the 5h limit allows us to smoothen the load on our compute, allowing to keep the plan generous in terms of
Source
Tibo (@thsottiaux)
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Topic: Rate limit updates