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AI usage limits are the caps that providers of subscription AI services place on how much computing a customer can consume before waiting for a reset. Between 2025 and 2026 they hardened from a background nuisance into one of the defining constraints of working with frontier models: coding agents such as Claude Code and OpenAI Codex made it possible to consume in hours what earlier chat interfaces spread across a month, and every major provider responded with layered session windows, weekly caps, and metered credit systems.[12][32] The moment a window renews, the limit reset, has developed a small culture of its own: OpenAI staff announce bonus resets on X to mark milestones, Anthropic resets everyone's windows after incidents and launches, and third-party sites track the announcements the way others track service status.[43][44]

This article explains how the major subscription limit systems work and when they reset, how they differ from API rate limits, how the limits were introduced, and the growing catalogue of out-of-cycle resets and promotions. AI Wiki also maintains a free, browser-local limit reset tracker with live countdowns and sourced reset histories for Codex and Claude.

Two regimes: subscription windows and API rate limits

The same models are metered in two different ways depending on how they are bought.

Subscription plans such as ChatGPT Plus, Claude Pro, and Google AI Pro bundle a fixed monthly price with usage windows: allowances that refill on a schedule measured in hours, weeks, or calendar months. Hitting one means waiting for the reset or, increasingly, buying metered extra usage. API access is pay-per-token with rate limits: ceilings on requests and tokens per minute or day that protect shared capacity rather than define what was purchased. The two are separate billing systems: the Claude API is billed separately from a Claude subscription, although as of October 2026 Max, Ultra, and Team plans include a monthly API credit, and ChatGPT plans include no API credits.[61][69]

ProductShort windowLonger capDocumented reset rule (October 2026)
Claude (all plans)5-hour session allowance (none for verified Ultra accounts since October 30, 2026)Weekly limits on most paid plansRolling 5-hour window; weekly limits reset at a fixed time each week assigned to the account[2][4][121]
Codex / ChatGPT5-hour window shared by local and cloud tasks (none on Pro or Business Premium)Weekly limits may apply by planLimits are account-specific, shown on the usage screen; a new 5-hour window starts with the first Work or Codex message after the previous one ends; the 5-hour limit applies to Plus and Standard Business, while Pro 100, Pro 200 and Pro 500 currently have no 5-hour limit, after OpenAI suspended it on July 12, 2026 and restored it for Plus on August 25, 2026[32][33][71][97][98]
Gemini appAllowance refreshes every 5 hoursWeekly limit5-hour refresh under a weekly cap, since May 17, 2026[47]
Gemini API and Gemini CLIPer-minute request capsDaily request quotasDaily quotas reset at midnight Pacific Time[50][51]
GitHub CopilotNoneMonthly AI credit allowanceResets at 00:00:00 UTC on the first day of each calendar month, no rollover[52][54]
CursorNone (Auto usage included)Monthly included usage valueMonthly billing cycle[57]
Anthropic APIRequests and tokens per minuteMonthly spend cap by tierToken bucket replenished continuously, no fixed reset moment[59]
OpenAI APIRequests and tokens per minuteDaily quotas and monthly usage caps by tierPer-minute and per-day windows; reset times returned in response headers[60]

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The near-convergence on a 5-hour-plus-weekly design is recent. Anthropic completed it in August 2025 when weekly caps joined its five-hour sessions, Codex adopted the same shape, and Google moved the Gemini app onto it on May 17, 2026.[12][47]

Claude

Anthropic meters claude.ai plans, including the free tier, with a session allowance on a rolling 5-hour window.[1][4] The exception since October 30, 2026 is Ultra, the $200 plan previously called Max 20x: Anthropic renamed its Claude Max tiers that day and began removing the five-hour limit for verified Ultra accounts, while newer accounts keep a temporary limit until they are verified.[121][122] The help center long explained sessions as starting with the user's first message and lasting five hours, wording that now survives mainly in third-party guides; current documentation says simply that the session limit resets every five hours, and the Claude Code cost docs call it "a rolling five-hour window."[2][4] Because Claude Code and Claude Cowork run on the same subscription, chat, coding agent, and agentic workspace all drain one shared pool.[4][7]

Weekly limits are the newer and more contested layer. Pro, Max, and per-seat Team and Enterprise plans carry caps that reset at a fixed time each week assigned to the account, visible in the usage screen rather than derivable from a public clock; consumption-based Enterprise plans have no included allowance to cap.[2][6][9] As of October 2026, Pro has one weekly limit covering all models, while Max and Ultra plans carry two: one across all models and a separate weekly limit for Fable models.[2][3][7][8][121] The second cap has shifted identity with the model lineup. It launched in August 2025 as an Opus-only cap, Anthropic removed the model-specific cap when Claude Opus 4.5 arrived on November 24, 2025, and in July 2026 the Max plan page still described it as covering Sonnet models only.[12][16][93] The usage-limit help pages now show a Fable weekly reset, but Claude Code's error documentation still lists separate Opus and Sonnet limit messages, so the details are worth checking against your own usage screen.[6][5]

Reset times are published per account. Settings > Usage on claude.ai shows progress bars for the 5-hour session and the weekly limits, the /usage command in Claude Code shows the same bars plus a breakdown of which skills, subagents, and MCP servers consumed the allowance, and the limit errors themselves carry exact times, in the form "resets Mon 12:00am."[6][4][5]

PlanPrice (October 2026)Session usageWeekly caps
Free$0Baseline 5-hour allowance[1]Limited weekly usage, no figure published[10]
Pro$17/month annual, $20 monthlyAt least 5x FreeOne, across all models[2][10]
Max (Max 5x until October 30, 2026)$100/month5x Pro5x Pro; two caps: all models, plus a separate Fable limit[3][10]
Ultra (Max 20x until October 30, 2026)$200/monthNo five-hour limit for verified accounts10x Pro; two caps: all models, plus a separate Fable limit[10][121]
Team standard seat$20/month annual, $25 monthlyStandard seat allowanceWeekly window per seat[4][10]
Team premium seat$100/month annual, $125 monthly5x standard seatsWeekly window per seat[4][10]
Enterprise (current)$20/seat plus consumption at API ratesConsumption-basedUsage credits do not apply[9][10]

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Running out no longer always means waiting. Pro, Max, and Ultra subscribers can enable usage credits that bill continued usage at standard API rates, with auto-reload and an optional monthly spend limit, and the five-hour and weekly limits keep resetting on schedule underneath.[8] Team and seat-based Enterprise owners can enable organization-level credits covering Claude, Cowork, and Claude Code, with per-user spend caps.[9] Inside Claude Code, /usage-credits opens the right billing screen.[4]

With the launch of Claude Opus 5.5 on September 22, 2026, Anthropic began giving subscribers limit resets they can save and use when they choose, alongside higher five-hour limits (20% higher in Claude Code).[77][78] Pro, Max, and Team users received one to apply any time until October 22.[79] Using a reset sets either the five-hour session limit or the weekly limit back to full, depending on the reset offered, while the weekly limit keeps its usual reset day and time; it is applied with a "Reset for free" button on the web or in Claude Desktop, not in Claude Code's terminal or IDE.[76]

OpenAI Codex and ChatGPT

Codex ships with every ChatGPT plan, including Free and the Go tier.[31] Local messages in the Codex CLI and IDE extensions share one allowance with cloud tasks. On Plus and Standard Business it is metered in 5-hour periods, Pro plans currently have no 5-hour limit, and weekly limits may also apply.[32] OpenAI's help center says a new five-hour window starts when the user sends a first message in Work or Codex after the previous window ends, and that the five-hour limit can be reached before five hours have passed even while weekly usage remains.[98] Business Premium seats, introduced on August 24, 2026 at $100 per user per month billed annually ($125 monthly), launched with 5x the usage of Standard seats and no five-hour limit; OpenAI raised Premium usage again on October 29, 2026.[97][100] Since ChatGPT Work launched on July 9, 2026 as an agent surface beside Chat and Codex, the two draw from a single pool: OpenAI's pricing page states that "ChatGPT Work and Codex share usage."[65][32]

The system changed materially on July 12, 2026, when OpenAI temporarily suspended the 5-hour restriction for Plus, Business, and Pro plans with no announced end date, leaving weekly limits as the binding cap for paid users.[33] On July 29, Codex lead Thibault Sottiaux said the five-hour limit would be restored the next day, but the restoration was postponed.[70][71] The limit came back for Plus accounts across ChatGPT Work and Codex on August 25, 2026; Sottiaux said the window smooths load on OpenAI's compute and stops casual Plus users from accidentally exhausting a whole week's usage, and that OpenAI would keep the 5-hour limit disabled for the $100 and $200 Pro subscriptions "for the upcoming months."[71] OpenAI's pricing page now publishes five-hour estimates for Plus and Standard Business and states that "Pro plans currently have no five-hour limit."[32] Sottiaux tested the trade-off on October 10, 2026 (Pacific time) with an X poll asking Pro users whether they would rather have "5h limits, 2X week usage" or "no 5h limits, same usage"; of 240,643 votes, 33.2% chose the first option and 37.8% the second, with the remainder only viewing results.[103] He wrote that he had expected the vote to "sway much more favorably in the 2X direction across Pro 100/200/500 at the cost of bringing back 5h limits in order to smoothen the demand curve."[104]

Allowances are published as per-model message ranges rather than token counts. In July 2026 the pricing page listed, for example, roughly 15 to 90 messages of GPT-5.6 Sol per 5-hour window on Plus, with Pro then sold in 5x and 20x variants.[32][99] As of October 30, 2026 the Plus estimates per five-hour window are 5 to 45 local messages of GPT-6 Astra, 15 to 160 of GPT-6.1 Sol, 35 to 285 of GPT-6.1 Terra, 15 to 150 of GPT-6 Sol, and 350 to 3,000 of GPT-6 Luna, with the same ranges for Standard Business; Fast mode draws on included usage at 2.5x the Standard rate and Ultrafast at 8x.[32] The page notes that a turn already running when the limit hits may continue, subject to fair use limits.[32] Extra usage is sold as credits. Credit purchases launched on October 30, 2025, when OpenAI sold packs of 1,000 credits for $40 to Plus and Pro users; credits are consumed only after plan usage runs out and are priced per million tokens on a published rate card.[37][32][38] As of October 2026 the help center says purchase amounts and prices vary by account, region, and plan, credits are bought from Settings > Usage in ChatGPT or Usage & Billing in the Codex app, and they expire 12 months after purchase.[107] Workspace credits cover Business, Edu, and Enterprise, and an API key at API rates remains the third path.[32]

OpenAI's signature mechanic is the banked reset: a stored full usage reset credited to an account, redeemable whenever the user chooses from the desktop app, web, or mobile.[34][35][67] Using a full banked reset refreshes both the 5-hour and weekly Codex usage windows and changes the account's weekly reset date.[31] Reset credits carry a type and an expiration date in the Codex CLI, which added a confirmation step before redemption in July 2026.[36] The mechanic launched on June 11, 2026, when OpenAI's release notes said eligible Plus and Pro users would get one free banked reset and that banked resets were usable for 30 days after being granted; OpenAI has since granted banked resets to all accounts many times, including for a 7-million-user milestone on July 13, 2026 and the launch of GPT-6 Sol and Luna on September 22, 2026.[96][34][35][91] Since late August 2026, resets can also be bought: eligible Plus and Pro personal accounts can purchase an instant reset from usage settings or from an in-app offer after reaching the weekly limit. It immediately restores both 5-hour and weekly usage by pulling the normal weekly allowance forward rather than adding usage, and the new weekly period starts with the next request in Work or Codex, so the following automatic reset falls seven days after that request.[72] Paid resets are not offered on Free, Go, Business, Enterprise, or Edu plans, and OpenAI Support does not reset limits on request.[72][31] Inside the CLI, /status reports remaining limits.[32]

ChatGPT's chat interface went through its own cap era. GPT-4 launched in March 2023 under a fluctuating cap that quickly settled at 25 messages per 3 hours, and OpenAI doubled it to 50 that July.[45] Caps later became model-specific, and by 2026 the official Plus page publishes no fixed numbers at all, promising only that caps may apply "especially during high demand."[46]

Pro tiers and the Pro 200 reversal

At its DevDay event on September 29, 2026, OpenAI added Pro 500, a $500-per-month plan with "the highest included usage of the Pro plans" and exclusive access among Pro plans to Ultrafast mode, giving ChatGPT Pro three tiers at $100, $200, and $500 a month.[96][94] Until then the Codex pricing page had described Pro as offering "5x or 20x higher rate limits than Plus"; the restructured page lists the three prices without usage multiples.[99][32] The same day OpenAI made Pro 200 "available for new subscriptions again" and said included usage allowances were changing.[96] Its help center explained that new Pro 200 subscriptions not eligible for grandfathering would get "a lower usage allowance than previously offered with Pro 200 to reflect our increasingly efficient models," while anyone with an active Pro 200 subscription between September 22, 2026 and 10 a.m. Pacific Time on September 29 could keep the previous allowance through October 29, 2026 before moving to the lower one at the same $200 price.[95] OpenAI's help center described the change only as a lower allowance; a subscriber who posted on the OpenAI Developer Community forum on October 11 said OpenAI's email had described a move from 20x to 10x the Plus allowance for Codex and Work.[105]

On October 29, the day the grandfathering window was due to close, Sottiaux posted: "We are doubling all usage limits for all Pro 100/200/500 tiers and Business Premium, effective today," adding that OpenAI had "heard your kind feedback and won't be reducing usage limits for Pro 200."[100] OpenAI's release notes give the details: Pro 100 and Pro 500 now include twice their previous Work and Codex allowance, the Pro 200 reduction "announced in our September 29 email" is canceled, and Pro 200 subscribers on the lower allowance had it doubled to match those who kept the higher one; the notes say Business Premium usage is increasing without giving a figure.[96][97] The help center adds that weekly GPT-6 Pro message limits in Chat are separate and did not change for Pro 100 or Pro 500, while Pro 200's lower weekly limit was raised to match the higher one; Plus usage is unchanged, existing subscribers get the new allowance without waiting for renewal, and "a larger allowance does not guarantee twice as many completed tasks."[94] Pro plans kept their exemption from the five-hour limit.[32] Sottiaux also said OpenAI would "continue offering extended limits for dots for now" and that a user's dot would keep drawing on usage separate from the default allowance; OpenAI's dots help article describes those extended limits as applying for the first month after launch.[100][106] In a follow-up he wrote: "Graduating from The Reset Company to The Token Company."[101]

Google Gemini

Google rebuilt the Gemini app's limits on May 17, 2026, replacing fixed daily prompt counts with a compute-based allowance that "refreshes every 5 hours" under a weekly cap.[47] How much a prompt consumes depends on its complexity, the model and features used, and the length of the chat, and paid tiers are defined as multipliers rather than absolute numbers: Google AI Plus doubles standard limits, AI Pro is 4x, and AI Ultra runs 5x or 20x above Pro depending on the subscription.[47] After user complaints, Google capped how much of a quota any single prompt can consume and stopped charging for failed requests.[48] The previous system, retired in May 2026, had published exact daily counts, such as 5 Gemini 2.5 Pro prompts per day free, 100 on AI Pro, and 500 on AI Ultra.[49]

For developers, the free Gemini CLI tier through a personal Google account allows 60 model requests per minute and 1,000 per day, rising to 1,500 per day on Gemini Code Assist Standard and 2,000 on Enterprise.[50] The CLI documentation names no reset clock, but Google's documented rule for the Gemini API is that daily request quotas reset at midnight Pacific Time.[50][51]

GitHub Copilot

Copilot has the most deterministic reset schedule of the major tools: the calendar does the work. Premium request billing began on June 18, 2025, with monthly allowances (300 on Pro, 1,500 on Pro+) that reset on the first of each month at 00:00:00 UTC and a $0.04 overage price per extra request.[52] On June 1, 2026, GitHub replaced premium request units with token-based GitHub AI Credits, announced that April: 1 credit equals $0.01, individual plans include 1,500 (Pro), 7,000 (Pro+), or 20,000 (the new $100 Copilot Max) credits per month, and organizations get 1,900 (Business) or 3,900 (Enterprise) credits per user pooled at the billing-entity level, promotionally raised to 3,000 and 7,000 through September 1, 2026.[53][54][55][56] The allowance still resets at 00:00:00 UTC on the first day of each calendar month, unused credits do not roll over, and code completions stay unlimited on paid plans.[54]

Cursor

Cursor abandoned request counting on June 16, 2025, when its Pro plan swapped a 500-fast-requests-per-month quota for at least $20 of model inference at API prices each month plus unlimited access to its Auto model, and a $200 Ultra tier launched with 20x Pro's usage.[57][58] The switch confused enough users that Cursor published a clarification on July 4, 2025 and refunded surprise usage charged in the interim.[58] The mid-2026 lineup spans a free Hobby tier and paid Pro, Pro+, and Ultra plans whose included monthly usage scales with the plan price, so limits behave like a prepaid budget on a monthly billing cycle rather than a window that resets during the week.[68]

API rate limits

API platforms enforce a different kind of limit. Anthropic applies organization-level rate limits in three dimensions per model class: requests per minute, input tokens per minute, and output tokens per minute, alongside monthly spend caps that define the usage tiers, which in 2026 are named Start, Build, and Scale (capped at $500, $1,000, and $200,000 per month) plus negotiated Custom tiers.[59] Anthropic's limits use a token bucket that is "continuously replenished up to your maximum limit," so there is no fixed reset moment to wait for; exceeding a limit returns HTTP 429 with a retry-after header, and every response carries anthropic-ratelimit headers giving remaining capacity and an RFC 3339 replenishment time.[59] Cache reads do not count against input-token limits for most models, which makes prompt caching a rate-limit lever as well as a cost one.[59]

OpenAI meters usage across several dimensions (requests per minute and day, tokens per minute and day, images per minute, and audio minutes for some streaming audio models), enforces whichever binds first, and attaches limits to organizations and projects rather than individual users.[60] Usage tiers advance automatically with cumulative spend, from Tier 1 at $5 paid up to Tier 5 at $1,000, raising monthly usage caps from $100 to $200,000, and responses carry x-ratelimit headers with remaining counts and reset times.[60] Google's developer quotas follow the daily-reset rule described above.[51]

Resets outside the schedule

Routine renewals are only half the story. Providers now regularly reset windows early, for four recurring reasons: recovering from incidents that burned usage unfairly, celebrating launches and milestones, running promotions, and plain goodwill.

DateProviderEvent
Oct 1, 2025AnthropicWeekly limits reset for all paid users while steering subscribers from Claude Opus 4.1 to Claude Sonnet 4.5[15]
Dec 19, 2025OpenAICodex usage zeroed during a billing-system migration rather than backfilled[41]
Feb 27, 2026AnthropicClaude Code prompt-caching bug consumed limits too fast; fixed in 2.1.62 and limits reset[19]
Apr 16, 2026AnthropicLong-context usage accounting bug in Opus 4.7; 5-hour and weekly limits reset[18]
Apr 17, 2026OpenAICodex CLI's first anniversary; limits reset across all plans[39][40]
Apr 23, 2026AnthropicPostmortem for three overlapping Claude Code quality regressions; usage limits reset for all subscribers[17]
Jun 1, 2026AnthropicParallel-subagent bug burned usage; Pro and Max limits reset[20]
Jun 4, 2026OpenAIReset across paid plans after three Codex incidents in 24 hours[63]
Jun 9, 2026AnthropicClaude Fable 5 launch; all users' windows reset[21]
Jun 20, 2026AnthropicAbout 3% of Claude Code Pro and Max users saw an incorrect weekly limit; everyone reset[24]
Jun 18 to Jul 13, 2026OpenAIBanked resets granted account-wide, twice, plus a rollout of redemption to web and mobile[34][35][67]
Jul 1, 2026AnthropicFable 5 restored after the June 12-30 export-control suspension; universal reset[22][23]
Jul 9, 2026Anthropic5-hour and weekly limits reset for all users[25]
Jul 16, 2026Anthropic5-hour and weekly limits reset for all users[81]
Jul 21, 2026OpenAI10-million-user milestone reset for paid Codex and ChatGPT Work[43]
Jul 25, 2026OpenAIReset for all Codex and ChatGPT Work users after a near-global overnight outage[84]
Aug 13, 2026OpenAI15-million-user milestone reset[85]
Aug 21, 2026OpenAI20-million-user milestone; a banked reset credited to every Codex and ChatGPT Work user[86]
Aug 29, 2026OpenAIReset for paid users alongside usage fixes that OpenAI said make usage go 10% to 50% further, depending on use[87]
Aug 31, 2026OpenAI25-million-user milestone reset for all paid subscriptions[88]
Sep 1, 2026AnthropicClaude Fable 5.1 launch; 5-hour and weekly limits reset for all users[82]
Sep 3 to 5, 2026OpenAIOne banked reset per day for paid users still waiting for GPT-6 Astra access, then a banked reset for all Plus, Pro, and Business users once Astra had rolled out[89][90]
Sep 4, 2026AnthropicWeekly limits reset for everyone on a Claude Max plan[83]
Sep 22, 2026OpenAIGPT-6 Sol and Luna launch; banked reset loaded into all Plus, Pro, and Business accounts[91]
Sep 22, 2026AnthropicClaude Opus 5.5 launch; Pro, Max, and Team users given a saved reset to apply any time until Oct 22[78][79]
Oct 6, 2026OpenAIDay 2 of Sottiaux's 28-day series: followers voted for a reset over four product updates, and both shipped[102][109]
Oct 7, 2026OpenAIDay 3 of the series and a 40-million-user milestone; banked reset loaded into every paid account[92]
Oct 10 to 27, 2026OpenAITen further global resets in the series, posted as Days 6, 8, 10, 13, 15, 17, 18, 20, 21, and 23 (October 10, 12, 14, 17, 19, 21, 22, 24, 25, and 27, Pacific time); several landed the following morning[110][111][112][113][114][115][116][117][118][119]

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Promotions form the other half of the out-of-cycle catalogue:

PromotionWindowTerms
Claude holiday promotionDec 25-31, 20252x usage including weekly caps for individual Pro and Max, with weekly caps reset at the start[26]
Claude March promotionMar 13-28, 20262x 5-hour usage outside weekday peak hours; bonus usage did not count toward weekly limits[27]
Claude Code weekly boostMay 13 to Sep 13, 2026Weekly limits raised 50% for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise; extended several times; 5-hour limits unaffected; from Sep 14, standard weekly Claude Code limits are permanently 25% above the pre-promotion level[28][29][66][73][74]
Cowork usage boostJun 5 to Aug 19, 2026Cowork's 5-hour limit doubled; weekly limits unchanged; end date from the last archived version of Anthropic's help article (August 18, 2026), which has since been removed[30]
Codex 5-hour suspensionJul 12 to Aug 24, 2026 for Plus; still in effect for Pro as of Oct 30, 20265-hour restriction temporarily removed for Plus, Business, and Pro; restored for Plus on Aug 25; OpenAI's pricing page lists 5-hour estimates for Standard Business and no 5-hour limit for Pro; weekly limits remain[33][71][32]
Claude artifact usage discountOct 1 to 15, 2026After Claude creates or edits an artifact in Claude or Cowork, part of the work that follows uses 50% less of the 5-hour session limit; Pro, Max, and Team from Oct 1, Free from Oct 7; weekly limits unchanged; Claude Code and all Enterprise plans excluded[80]

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History and reception

Usage limits became a story in mid-2025. On July 17, 2025, TechCrunch reported that Anthropic had tightened Claude Code limits without telling anyone, and the complaint that stuck was not the caps but the silence: "Just be transparent. The lack of communication just causes people to lose confidence in them," one affected user told TechCrunch.[13] Eleven days later Anthropic announced weekly rate limits for Pro and Max, effective August 28, 2025, estimating they would touch "less than 5% of subscribers."[11][12] The company pointed to people running Claude Code "continuously in the background, 24/7," account sharing, and resale of access, and its announcement noted that one user had consumed "tens of thousands in model usage" on a $200 plan.[12][14] Launch estimates put Pro at 40 to 80 hours of Sonnet 4 per week, with Max tiers proportionally higher plus separate Opus hours.[12] The Hacker News thread on the change drew over 600 points and 700 comments.[62]

Since then the pattern has been steady liberalization at the edges: higher quotas and the Opus cap's removal in November 2025, purchasable extra usage on both platforms, promotions that temporarily raise or double windows, and frequent goodwill resets.[16][8][37] Anthropic made part of its 2026 Claude Code boost permanent, raising standard weekly Claude Code limits by 25% from September 14, 2026, though it acknowledged this was a 17% cut from the promotional level then in effect.[74][75] The reset announcements themselves became a genre. OpenAI's Codex lead Thibault Sottiaux has announced dozens on X, enough that a third-party tracker, codex-resets.com, archives them and computes statistics: 69 reset events averaging 6.0 days apart as of October 30, 2026.[43][44] On October 4, 2026 he announced a public 28-day series, with Day 1 on October 5, promising that "each day we'll either ship one thing that is a clear improvement and relevant for most codex/work users or ship a full reset"; by Day 23 (October 27) twelve of those days had brought a full or banked reset, each listed with its own post in the resets table above.[102] Other entries in the series changed metering, such as making auto-review safety checks free of plan usage on Day 2.[120][31] Over-consumption incidents recur on OpenAI's side too; a March 2026 status-page entry warned that Codex usage was being consumed faster than expected.[42] On October 20, 2026, after reports of usage draining faster than anticipated, Sottiaux said about 40,000 accounts had been charged against usage limits that did not match their selected plan, and that OpenAI had corrected the issue and would add credits for affected users.[108] Desktop monitors such as AI Gauge track Claude, Codex, and Copilot limits locally.[64] Anthropic publishes no equivalent feed of its one-off resets; AI Wiki maintains a manually reviewed, source-linked archive of them on the limit reset tracker, also available as open JSON data.

Checking your reset time

No provider publishes a universal clock for subscription windows, so the account's own surfaces are authoritative.

ProductWhere to lookWhat it shows
Claude (web and apps)Settings > Usage on claude.aiProgress bars for the 5-hour session and weekly limits, with reset times[6]
Claude Code/usage command, or the limit error textPlan usage bars, consumption breakdown, and exact reset times[4][5]
Codexchatgpt.com/codex/settings/usage, or /status in the CLIRemaining 5-hour and weekly limits and credit balance[32][37]
GitHub CopilotBilling and licensing settingsCredit usage against the monthly allowance; resets on the 1st at 00:00 UTC[54]
Gemini appIn-product noticesWarnings as the 5-hour or weekly allowance runs low[47]
Anthropic and OpenAI APIsResponse headersRemaining requests and tokens, with reset timestamps[59][60]

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  33. ^1 ^2 ^3Thibault Sottiaux on temporarily removing the 5-hour restriction - X, July 12, 2026
  34. ^1 ^2 ^3Thibault Sottiaux introducing the reset bank - X, June 18, 2026
  35. ^1 ^2 ^3Thibault Sottiaux on the 7M-user banked reset - X, July 13, 2026
  36. ^Codex changelog - OpenAI documentation
  37. ^1 ^2 ^3OpenAI Developers on Codex credits - X, October 30, 2025
  38. ^Codex rate card - OpenAI Help Center
  39. ^Thibault Sottiaux on the Codex anniversary reset - X, April 17, 2026
  40. ^OpenAI releases Codex CLI - Gigazine, April 17, 2025
  41. ^Thibault Sottiaux on the billing migration reset - X, December 19, 2025
  42. ^Issues with increased Codex usage rate - OpenAI status page, March 2026
  43. ^1 ^2 ^3Thibault Sottiaux 10M-user reset announcement - X, July 21, 2026
  44. ^1 ^2codex-resets.com - third-party Codex reset tracker
  45. ^OpenAI increases GPT-4 message cap for ChatGPT - Search Engine Journal, July 2023
  46. ^What is ChatGPT Plus? - OpenAI Help Center
  47. ^1 ^2 ^3 ^4 ^5Gemini Apps usage limits and upgrades - Google Help
  48. ^Google adjusts new Gemini usage limits - 9to5Google, May 28, 2026
  49. ^Google publishes exact Gemini usage limits across all tiers - Search Engine Journal, September 2025
  50. ^1 ^2 ^3Gemini CLI quota and pricing - Google Gemini CLI documentation
  51. ^1 ^2 ^3Gemini API rate limits - Google AI for Developers
  52. ^1 ^2Premium requests - GitHub Docs
  53. ^GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing - GitHub Blog, April 27, 2026
  54. ^1 ^2 ^3 ^4Usage-based billing for individuals - GitHub Docs
  55. ^GitHub Copilot billing - GitHub Docs
  56. ^Usage-based billing for organizations and enterprises - GitHub Docs
  57. ^1 ^2New Ultra tier - Cursor blog, June 2025
  58. ^1 ^2Clarifying our pricing - Cursor blog, July 4, 2025
  59. ^1 ^2 ^3 ^4 ^5Rate limits - Claude API documentation
  60. ^1 ^2 ^3 ^4Rate limits - OpenAI API documentation
  61. ^Why do I have to pay separately for the Claude API? - Anthropic Help Center
  62. ^Claude Code weekly rate limits - Hacker News, July 28, 2025
  63. ^Thibault Sottiaux on the reset after three Codex incidents - X, June 4, 2026
  64. ^Show HN: AI Gauge, a desktop monitor for AI usage limits - Hacker News, June 2026
  65. ^OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Work agent - Bloomberg, July 9, 2026
  66. ^Claude Code weekly limits promotion extended - Help Net Security, July 13, 2026
  67. ^1 ^2Thibault Sottiaux on banked reset redemption from web and mobile - X, July 12, 2026
  68. ^Cursor pricing
  69. ^Managing billing settings on ChatGPT web and platform - OpenAI Help Center
  70. ^Thibault Sottiaux on usage resets and restoring the five-hour limit - X, July 29, 2026
  71. ^1 ^2 ^3 ^4Thibault Sottiaux on bringing back the 5-hour limit for Plus - X, August 25, 2026
  72. ^1 ^2Paid weekly Work and Codex rate limit resets - OpenAI Help Center
  73. ^Claude Developers on extending the weekly boost through August 31 - X, August 18, 2026
  74. ^1 ^2Claude Developers on permanently raising Claude Code weekly limits by 25% - X, August 29, 2026
  75. ^Claude Developers on the 17% reduction from promotional limits - X, August 29, 2026
  76. ^What is a limit reset? - Anthropic Help Center
  77. ^Introducing Claude Opus 5.5 - Anthropic, September 22, 2026
  78. ^1 ^2Claude Developers on Opus 5.5 usage limits in Claude Code - X, September 22, 2026
  79. ^1 ^2Claude Developers on applying the Opus 5.5 reset until October 22 - X, September 22, 2026
  80. ^Artifact usage promotion - Anthropic Help Center
  81. ^Claude Developers universal reset announcement - X, July 16, 2026
  82. ^Claude Developers reset announcement at the Fable 5.1 launch - X, September 1, 2026
  83. ^Lydia Hallie on the Claude Max weekly reset - X, September 4, 2026
  84. ^Thibault Sottiaux on the post-outage reset - X, July 25, 2026
  85. ^Thibault Sottiaux on the 15M-user reset - X, August 13, 2026
  86. ^Thibault Sottiaux on the 20M-user banked reset - X, August 21, 2026
  87. ^Thibault Sottiaux on Codex usage fixes and a reset - X, August 29, 2026
  88. ^Thibault Sottiaux on the 25M-user reset - X, August 31, 2026
  89. ^Thibault Sottiaux on daily banked resets until Astra access - X, September 3, 2026
  90. ^Thibault Sottiaux on the Astra-day banked reset - X, September 5, 2026
  91. ^1 ^2Thibault Sottiaux on the GPT-6 Sol and Luna banked reset - X, September 22, 2026
  92. ^Thibault Sottiaux confirming the 40M-user banked reset - X, October 7, 2026
  93. ^What is the Max plan? - Anthropic Help Center, archived July 24, 2026
  94. ^1 ^2About ChatGPT Pro tiers - OpenAI Help Center
  95. ^About ChatGPT Pro tiers - OpenAI Help Center, archived October 26, 2026
  96. ^1 ^2 ^3 ^4ChatGPT release notes - OpenAI Help Center (entries of June 11, September 29, and October 29, 2026)
  97. ^1 ^2 ^3ChatGPT Business release notes - OpenAI Help Center (entries of August 24 and October 29, 2026)
  98. ^1 ^2Managing usage with GPT-6 Astra in Work and Codex - OpenAI Help Center
  99. ^1 ^2Codex pricing - OpenAI documentation, archived September 29, 2026
  100. ^1 ^2 ^3Thibault Sottiaux on doubling Pro and Business Premium usage limits (Day 25) - X, October 29, 2026
  101. ^Thibault Sottiaux, "Graduating from The Reset Company to The Token Company" - X, October 29, 2026
  102. ^1 ^2Thibault Sottiaux announcing the 28-day improvement-or-reset series - X, October 4, 2026
  103. ^Thibault Sottiaux poll of Pro users on 5-hour limits - X, October 10, 2026
  104. ^Thibault Sottiaux on the Pro poll results - X, October 11, 2026
  105. ^OpenAI, please explain publicly: is Pro 200 Codex usage being reduced before October 30? - OpenAI Developer Community, October 11, 2026
  106. ^Getting started with your dot - OpenAI Help Center
  107. ^Using Credits for Flexible Usage in ChatGPT (Personal plans) - OpenAI Help Center
  108. ^Thibault Sottiaux on 40,000 accounts with mismatched usage limits - X, October 20, 2026
  109. ^Thibault Sottiaux on the Day 2 reset vote - X, October 6, 2026
  110. ^Thibault Sottiaux, Day 6 reset - X, October 10, 2026
  111. ^Thibault Sottiaux, Day 8 reset - X, October 12, 2026
  112. ^Thibault Sottiaux, Day 10 reset - X, October 14, 2026
  113. ^Thibault Sottiaux, Day 13 reset - X, October 17, 2026
  114. ^Thibault Sottiaux, Day 15 reset - X, October 19, 2026
  115. ^Thibault Sottiaux, Day 17 reset - X, October 21, 2026
  116. ^Thibault Sottiaux, Day 18 reset - X, October 22, 2026
  117. ^Thibault Sottiaux, Day 20 reset - X, October 24, 2026
  118. ^Thibault Sottiaux, Day 21 reset - X, October 25, 2026
  119. ^Thibault Sottiaux, Day 23 reset - X, October 27, 2026
  120. ^Thibault Sottiaux on making auto-review free of plan usage (Day 2.1) - X, October 6, 2026
  121. ^1 ^2 ^3 ^4What is the Ultra plan? - Anthropic Help Center
  122. ^Claude announcement renaming the Max plans - X, October 30, 2026

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