This was a routine global reset: the team proactively wiped and refilled Codex usage for all paid subscriptions (Plus / Pro / Business). It applies automatically once announced — nothing to claim.
The announcement: “Old news actually from a bunch of days ago, but crossed that 15M. Enjoy a nice r…”
Reading the announcement: gratitude and celebration set the tone of these 27 words, posted in the morning — wrapping a reset as community goodwill is the team's consistent register.
Quick factsTHE SNAPSHOT
| Item | Data |
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| Announced | 2026-08-13 01:01 UTC (09:01 Beijing, Thursday) |
| Type | Global Usage Reset (reset_type: regular) |
| Sequence | #43 of 53 tracked resets |
| Gap before | 2 days |
| Gap after | 8 days (next reset: 2026-08-21) |
| Running average at that time | 7.9 days (mean of the prior 41 gaps) |
| Where this gap sits in history | longer than 19% of historical gaps (ranked #26 longest among the gaps recorded up to then) |
| Source | public announcement by @thsottiaux ↗, archived by codex-resets.com |
TimelineWHAT HAPPENED
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2026-08-13 01:01 UTCThe official global-reset announcement went out.
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Original announcement
“Old news actually from a bunch of days ago, but crossed that 15M. Enjoy a nice reset everyone. Landing in the next hour or so, go /fast. https://t.co/TFRN2SrpCi”— @thsottiaux on X ↗
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EffectThe reset propagated across all paid accounts and quotas were refilled.
The era: Sol eraCONTEXT
With GPT-5.6 Sol drawing crowds, resets continued on celebratory pretexts and settled into a quasi-regular 6–9 day cadence — the archive's first stretch that resembled a predictable rhythm.
In the full sequence, this is event #4 of 4 in the "Sol era"; 8 days later, the next reset landed on schedule on 2026-08-21. Announced on a Thursday, 2 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.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 August 13, 2026 (Thursday)?
On August 13, 2026 (Thursday), the OpenAI Codex team announced a global usage reset — reset #43 of 53 in the archive, 2 days after the previous one, part of the "Sol era". Usage across all paid plans (Plus / Pro / Business) was wiped and refilled automatically.
Only 2 days after the previous one — are back-to-back resets normal?
Yes. The archive shows several such streaks (this event's era, the "Sol era", alone holds 4 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 2026-08-21, 8 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.