In early November 2025 Codex suffered a minor outage; as compensation, the team reset everyone's limits right as service recovered. Outage compensation is one of the most common reset triggers.
Quick factsTHE SNAPSHOT
| Item | Data |
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| Announced | 2025-11-05 20:19 UTC (28:19 Beijing, Wednesday) |
| Type | Outage Compensation Reset (reset_type: regular) |
| Sequence | #2 of 53 tracked resets |
| Gap before | 50 days |
| Gap after | 17 days (next reset: 2025-11-22) |
| Running average at that time | 50.0 days (mean of the prior 0 gaps) |
| Where this gap sits in history | longer than 0% of historical gaps (ranked #1 longest among the gaps recorded up to then) |
| Source | public announcement by @thsottiaux ↗, archived by codex-resets.com |
TimelineWHAT HAPPENED
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2025-11-05 20:19 UTCThe official global-reset announcement went out.
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Original announcement
“Codex outage resolved. We suffered a minor outage for last 45 minutes which turned into a global outage for last 30 minutes, this is now resolved and we have reset the rate limits. Please let me know if you still see issues. https://t.co/ZkvIOaVMv2”— @thsottiaux on X ↗
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EffectThe reset propagated across all paid accounts and quotas were refilled.
The era: Winter compensation eraCONTEXT
Resets in this period were mostly compensation: the November outage recovery, usage discrepancies wiped after the billing-system rewrite, and a Christmas thank-you. Resets followed events, not a schedule, while the team reworked systems underneath.
In the full sequence, this is event #1 of 6 in the "Winter compensation era"; 17 days later, the next reset landed on schedule on 2025-11-22. Announced on a Wednesday, 50 days after its predecessor — those numbers together are this event's coordinates on the timeline.
What it means for youTAKEAWAY
Compensation resets treat all paid users equally — even unaffected accounts get the refill. The announcement usually explains what broke.The 50-day gap ran above the then-average, a reminder that long silences can end in either a big compensation or more silence — watching the pressure gauge beats guessing motives.
FAQCOMMON QUESTIONS
What was the Codex global reset on November 5, 2025 (Wednesday)?
On November 5, 2025 (Wednesday), the OpenAI Codex team announced a outage compensation reset — reset #2 of 53 in the archive, 50 days after the previous one, part of the "Winter compensation era". Usage across all paid plans (Plus / Pro / Business) was wiped and refilled automatically.
What was being compensated?
Judging by the announcement, this was a post-incident compensation: the team refilled every paid account while fixing the problem, even for users who were never affected. Historically, outage compensation is second only to milestone celebrations as a reset trigger.
When was the next global reset after this one?
The archive has the exact answer: the next reset landed on 2025-11-22, 17 days later. That's the unique value of these event pages — the "what happened next" that people at the time couldn't know. For the future, use the homepage radar's projection instead.