Second consecutive reset: the team confirmed 25M active users and refilled everyone two days in a row to celebrate. Back-to-back month-end resets cemented the "a reset can land anytime" expectation.
Quick factsTHE SNAPSHOT
| Item | Data |
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| Announced | 2026-08-31 02:29 UTC (10:29 Beijing, Monday) |
| Type | Milestone Celebration Reset (reset_type: regular) |
| Sequence | #49 of 53 tracked resets |
| Gap before | 1 days |
| Gap after | 4 days (next reset: 2026-09-03) |
| Running average at that time | 7.3 days (mean of the prior 47 gaps) |
| Where this gap sits in history | longer than 2% of historical gaps (ranked #40 longest among the gaps recorded up to then) |
| Source | public announcement by @thsottiaux ↗, archived by codex-resets.com |
TimelineWHAT HAPPENED
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2026-08-31 02:29 UTCThe official global-reset announcement went out.
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Original announcement
“What I wanted to say yesterday is that we hit 25M active users and to celebrate we have now reset usage for all paid subscriptions for ChatGPT Work and Codex. See you see for more news from The Reset Company. https://t.co/7Yc5znAJIc”— @thsottiaux on X ↗
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EffectThe reset propagated across all paid accounts and quotas were refilled.
The era: Milestones & banked creditsCONTEXT
The 20M and 25M milestones landed back to back, and banked resets graduated from occasional perk to the primary format: the August 21 batch, then celebration resets two days running at month's end — a clear warm-up for the Astra rollout.
In the full sequence, this is event #6 of 6 in the "Milestones & banked credits"; 4 days later, the next reset landed on schedule on 2026-09-03. 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 August 31, 2026 (Monday)?
On August 31, 2026 (Monday), the OpenAI Codex team announced a milestone celebration reset — reset #49 of 53 in the archive, 1 days after the previous one, part of the "Milestones & banked credits". 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 "Milestones & banked credits", alone holds 6 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 2026-09-03, 4 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.