The user base hit 8M — one day after 7M. Resets continued and the 5-hour cap stayed removed.
Quick factsTHE SNAPSHOT
| Item | Data |
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| Announced | 2026-07-14 19:34 UTC (27:34 Beijing, Tuesday) |
| Type | Milestone Celebration Reset (reset_type: regular) |
| Sequence | #33 of 53 tracked resets |
| Gap before | 1 days |
| Gap after | 1 days (next reset: 2026-07-16) |
| Running average at that time | 9.4 days (mean of the prior 31 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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2026-07-14 19:34 UTCThe official global-reset announcement went out.
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Original announcement
“Hello. We have reached 8M active users across Codex and ChatGPT Work. We are once again resetting the usage limits for all. And we continue to not have the 5h rate limit as well, allowing everyone to explore the boundaries of GPT-5.6 Sol and discover how ambitious you can be. https://t.co/pKunziOGRm”— @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 #6 of 12 in the "July reset spree"; 1 day later, the next reset landed on schedule on 2026-07-16. Announced on a Tuesday, 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 14, 2026 (Tuesday)?
On July 14, 2026 (Tuesday), the OpenAI Codex team announced a milestone celebration reset — reset #33 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 2026-07-16, 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.