A special one: instead of an instant global refill, the team granted banked reset credits to 500k ChatGPT Work and Codex users — storable reset credits to redeem when needed.
Quick factsTHE SNAPSHOT
| Item | Data |
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| Announced | 2026-07-12 21:28 UTC (29:28 Beijing, Sunday) |
| Type | Outage Compensation Reset (reset_type: regular) |
| Sequence | #31 of 53 tracked resets |
| Gap before | 2 days |
| Gap after | 1 days (next reset: 2026-07-13) |
| Running average at that time | 10.0 days (mean of the prior 29 gaps) |
| Where this gap sits in history | longer than 13% of historical gaps (ranked #22 longest among the gaps recorded up to then) |
| Source | public announcement by @thsottiaux ↗, archived by codex-resets.com |
TimelineWHAT HAPPENED
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2026-07-12 21:28 UTCThe official global-reset announcement went out.
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Original announcement
“Added a banked reset to 500k users of ChatGPT Work and Codex. What’s been happening: - Just released the ability to use a banked reset from web and mobile. Before today you could only do it in the desktop app - Had an issue where less than 10% of users who used a banked reset”— @thsottiaux on X ↗
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EffectThe reset propagated across all paid accounts and quotas were refilled.
The era: July reset spreeCONTEXT
The wildest three weeks in the archive: ten-plus resets back to back, the 5-hour cap temporarily removed, users climbing from 7M to 10M, and the first 500k banked-reset grants. This era cemented the "a reset can land anytime" consensus.
In the full sequence, this is event #4 of 12 in the "July reset spree"; 1 day later, the next reset landed on schedule on 2026-07-13. Announced on a Sunday, 2 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.With a very short gap, this sits squarely in a streak — burning quota in such periods had the highest odds of being refilled in the whole archive.
FAQCOMMON QUESTIONS
What was the Codex global reset on July 12, 2026 (Sunday)?
On July 12, 2026 (Sunday), the OpenAI Codex team announced a outage compensation reset — reset #31 of 53 in the archive, 2 days after the previous one, part of the "July reset spree". 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 2026-07-13, 1 day 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.