Codex resets

See your banked Codex resets — and use one when you hit zero

A banked reset puts your Codex five-hour and weekly windows back to full, once. It is worth most on the day the week runs out in the middle of a job, and worth nothing once it has expired unused. Here is how they work, how to use one by hand, and how Quotum shows them and spends one only when your quota is really exhausted.

What a banked reset is

OpenAI defines it as “a one-time Codex usage-limit reset saved to your account until you use it or it expires”. It is not purchased credit, and it does not raise your plan's limit for good. Three points from OpenAI's article matter in practice:

• It refreshes both windows. “Using a full banked reset refreshes your 5-hour and weekly Codex usage windows and changes your weekly reset date.”
• It is not wasted on a full account. It is consumed only when it refreshes at least one eligible window; if there is nothing to reset, it stays available.
• It expires. The expiration is shown in your account and varies by offer, plan, workspace and region; an expired reset cannot be restored. The ones we measured on September 29, 2026 expired thirty days after they were granted.

Banked resets are given by OpenAI or earned through referrals. OpenAI granted them to eligible Plus, Pro and Business accounts as part of the GPT-6 Astra rollout, on September 3 and 4 for existing accounts. A global reset such as the one of September 7, 2026 is different: it applied immediately to everyone and never appeared as a banked reset. OpenAI's support does not grant manual or courtesy resets.

Using one by hand

1. Open Settings › Usage in the ChatGPT desktop app, in the Codex CLI, or on the web.
2. Select the usage summary that shows an available reset, such as “1 reset available” or “Full reset”.
3. Review the expiration details, then confirm.

In the Codex CLI, /usage is also the command OpenAI documents for using a rate-limit reset. Whichever route you take, it covers the account you are signed in to.

How Quotum shows them, and when it spends one

The hard part is not pressing the button; it is pressing it at the right moment, on the right account, without spending a reset on an account that still had room. In Quotum's menu bar panel, a Codex account that has resets available shows them on the account, next to its windows and their reset times. Spending one, with “Spend a reset”, has two paths:

• By hand, from the account's drawer. The button says what the spend costs before offering it, and nothing goes out without a second confirmation.
• Without asking, if you turn that setting on. It is off by default, it turns on only after a warning that the spend may happen at night or while you are away, and every reset it spends is announced by a notification.

Both paths wait for the same conditions: a ChatGPT account, a reset left, an exhaustion the server has observed — never inferred from a percentage, never mistaken for an expired token —, a measurement at most ten minutes old, and a return time still ahead. It cannot be undone — a reset once spent is lost. It is the only thing Quotum ever writes to an account; everything else it does is read-only.

Free trial for fourteen days, on the first two lines of the panel. Launch price: €4.99, then €9.99. Spending a reset uses your ChatGPT account's sign-in; the pricing page explains the risk of reading and acting on a provider's quota from a third-party app before any purchase.

What Quotum cannot tell you

• Global resets in advance. When OpenAI resets everyone at once, Quotum sees it only as a window that has gone back down at the next measurement.
• Accounts it does not measure. The reset count comes with a measurement; an account with no recent figure shows none, and nothing is spent on it.
• Claude's own resets. Anthropic also grants limit resets, under Settings › Usage on claude.ai; Quotum does not show them.

More on Codex limits: how to check your Codex usage, and the Codex usage tracker for following several accounts.

Sources

Consulted on October 2, 2026, unless stated otherwise.

1. OpenAI, How banked Codex resets work: help.openai.com/en/articles/20001498
2. OpenAI, Using Codex with your ChatGPT plan: help.openai.com/en/articles/11369540
3. OpenAI, Codex CLI slash commands: learn.chatgpt.com/docs/cli/slash-commands
4. Anthropic, What is a limit reset?: support.claude.com/en/articles/17007452
5. Quotum, What Quotum reads on your Mac, section 05: quotum.app/what-quotum-reads (expiry measured on September 29, 2026)