OpenAI Pro Users Report Rapid Codex Usage Drain, Paying $400 Monthly for Near-Zero Access

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Paying subscribers to OpenAI's $200-per-month Pro plan have reported their weekly Codex usage limits depleting within one to two days, far short of what they expected for sustained professional work. One user, posting as jjjnoronha on the OpenAI Developer Community on 4 August, said two days of Rust backend development with dual agents exhausted his entire weekly allowance. Another user, kalani, went further and opened a second Pro account to work around the drain, only to find both accounts showing zero usage remaining within a day, totalling $400 spent for minimal access. A separate Codex 20x subscriber noted that limits now drain nearly as fast as an older five-hour cap, despite no change in their own usage patterns. Users say the core frustration is not cost alone but a lack of clear communication from OpenAI about how limits work and when they changed.

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