ChatGPT Drops 5-Hour Limit — Tibo Resets Weekly Quota for Codex & Work Users
@thsottiaux Jul 12: OpenAI temporarily removes 5-hour usage cap on Plus, Pro, and Business — weekly limit only. Another quota reset + Sol efficiency fixes. explainx.ai maps launch-week resets vs Anthropic July 19 extension.
Update — July 13, 2026 (afternoon): Tibo denied GPT-5.6 Sol thinking-budget nerfs, promised ~10% more usage from inference savings, and rolled banked resets to 500k users — all Work/Codex users get one July 14 at the 7M milestone.
The rolling 5-hour window is gone — for now.
On July 12, 2026, Tibo Sottiaux (@thsottiaux, OpenAI Codex) posted three launch-week fixes after GPT-5.6 Sol demand doubled traffic in 48 hours:
Temporarily remove the 5-hour usage limit on Plus, Pro, and Business
Make GPT-5.6 Sol more efficient — less quota burned per task
Reset weekly usage to 100% within the next hour
Codex crossed 6M active users the same morning. Developers reporting in — including @andr3barroso — confirmed 5-hour meter disappeared while weekly balance refilled.
~30 min rollout · "never seen traffic increase so quickly"
Jul 12
Remove 5h cap + weekly 100% reset
"didn't get everything quite right" apology thread
Manual resets are OpenAI tradition — Tibo shipped similar May 15 and June 4 top-ups after outages. Launch week added structural change (5h removal) on top of quota gifts.
5-hour removal is the fastest lever — no UI sprint required.
X reaction — surprise and skepticism
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@andr3barroso
Verified 5h gone · weekly 100% · prefers weekly-only for long dev sessions
Anonymous
"Please permanently remove the 5-hour limit" — Tibo didn't promise
Anonymous
"5 hour limits made no sense when there's already a weekly quota"
Anonymous
"Wow, you remove the 5 hour limit, not just increased it" — resubscribe bait
Anonymous
"When will the 5 hour limit get implemented again?"
Theo (@theo) earlier same week: burned $200K+ tokens on Sol — "a bit too easy to hit your limits on the $200 Codex Pro sub" — then praised OpenAI's generous resets. July 12 changes directly address that pain.
@ClaudeDevs still runs 5-hour + weekly on Claude Code. OpenAI testing weekly-only on ChatGPT tiers is a product experiment — if retention holds, 5h may not return.
@theo on claudex: Sol in Claude Code harness — builders can arbitrage OpenAI weights + Anthropic scaffolding while both labs fight over limits.
What developers should do now
Check /usage or Codex status — confirm 5h meter gone · weekly at 100%
Burn Sol while reset fresh — Terra/Luna for cheap probes · Sol for hard tasks
Avoid accidental Ultra — Tibo fixed defaults but verify model picker
Plan around weekly only — longer sessions OK; still finite
Watch Tibo on X — resets are manual, not calendar-predictable
Limit policy reflects Tibo's July 12 posts and reporting as of July 13, 2026. Temporary removals can revert without notice — verify in your account usage panel before planning production sprints.
