On Christmas Day the team reset everyone's limits "to thank you all for the fun we've had over the year" — holiday-greeting resets have appeared several times in the archive.
Quick factsTHE SNAPSHOT
| Item | Data |
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| Announced | 2025-12-25 08:01 UTC (16:01 Beijing, Thursday) |
| Type | Global Usage Reset (reset_type: regular) |
| Sequence | #7 of 53 tracked resets |
| Gap before | 5 days |
| Gap after | 68 days (next reset: 2026-03-03) |
| Running average at that time | 16.5 days (mean of the prior 5 gaps) |
| Where this gap sits in history | longer than 17% of historical gaps (ranked #5 longest among the gaps recorded up to then) |
| Source | public announcement by @thsottiaux ↗, archived by codex-resets.com |
TimelineWHAT HAPPENED
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2025-12-25 08:01 UTCThe official global-reset announcement went out.
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Original announcement
“For Codex users, to thank you all for the fun we've had over the last months, our first gift is that we have **reset rate limits and are lifting the usage limits to 2X the usual limits until the 1st of Jan**. Wish you all a merry holiday and lots of coding!! Spread the word 👀 https://t.co/uKAZLhpp7r https://t.co/eN919zx84y”— @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 #6 of 6 in the "Winter compensation era"; 68 days later, the next reset landed on schedule on 2026-03-03. Announced on a Thursday, 5 days after its predecessor — those numbers together are this event's coordinates on the timeline.
What it means for youTAKEAWAY
Routine resets historically average about 6.9 days apart, but the spread is wide — back-to-back days to two-week gaps. Watching the radar beats counting days.At 5 days, the gap was close to the historical norm — a routine move inside the rhythm.
FAQCOMMON QUESTIONS
What was the Codex global reset on December 25, 2025 (Thursday)?
On December 25, 2025 (Thursday), the OpenAI Codex team announced a global usage reset — reset #7 of 53 in the archive, 5 days after the previous one, part of the "Winter compensation era". Usage across all paid plans (Plus / Pro / Business) was wiped and refilled automatically.
Do I need to do anything to get this refill?
Nothing at all. Global resets apply at the account level: quotas refill automatically once the announcement lands (this was reset #7, 5 days after the previous one, in the Winter compensation era). Banked reset credits are the only exception — those are redeemed manually.
When was the next global reset after this one?
The archive has the exact answer: the next reset landed on 2026-03-03, 68 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.