7M active users. The same day, OpenAI temporarily removed Codex's 5-hour usage cap (widely read as a competitive move), making it a double celebration — reset plus cap removal — that flooded developer timelines.
Quick factsTHE SNAPSHOT
| Item | Data |
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| Announced | 2026-07-13 18:29 UTC (26:29 Beijing, Monday) |
| Type | Milestone Celebration Reset (reset_type: regular) |
| Sequence | #32 of 53 tracked resets |
| Gap before | 1 days |
| Gap after | 1 days (next reset: 2026-07-14) |
| Running average at that time | 9.7 days (mean of the prior 30 gaps) |
| Where this gap sits in history | longer than 3% of historical gaps (ranked #27 longest among the gaps recorded up to then) |
| Source | public announcement by @thsottiaux ↗, archived by codex-resets.com |
TimelineWHAT HAPPENED
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2026-07-13 18:29 UTCThe official global-reset announcement went out.
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Original announcement
“Thank you to the 7M active users who are now using Codex and ChatGPT Work. We have added a banked reset to everyone's account to celebrate the milestone. You can apply the reset in the desktop app or on web and it will replenish the weekly usage for you. Have fun out there.”— @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 #5 of 12 in the "July reset spree"; 1 day later, the next reset landed on schedule on 2026-07-14. Announced on a Monday, 1 day after its predecessor — those numbers together are this event's coordinates on the timeline.
What it means for youTAKEAWAY
Milestone resets are pure perks with no trigger conditions. Historically nearly every user-count milestone (3M → 25M) came with one.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 13, 2026 (Monday)?
On July 13, 2026 (Monday), the OpenAI Codex team announced a milestone celebration reset — reset #32 of 53 in the archive, 1 days after the previous one, part of the "July reset spree". Usage across all paid plans (Plus / Pro / Business) was wiped and refilled automatically.
Only 1 day after the previous one — are back-to-back resets normal?
Yes. The archive shows several such streaks (this event's era, the "July reset spree", alone holds 12 events), typically tied to milestones, launch weeks or incident wrap-ups. Streak periods are also when the radar's SEND-IT advice appears most often.
When was the next global reset after this one?
The archive has the exact answer: the next reset landed on 2026-07-14, 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.