In early November 2025 Codex suffered a minor outage; as compensation, the team reset everyone's limits right as service recovered. Outage compensation is one of the most common reset triggers.
Quick factsTHE SNAPSHOT
| Item | Data |
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| Announced | 2025-11-05 20:19 UTC (Beijing 2025-11-06 04:19, Thursday) |
| Type | Outage Compensation Reset (reset_type: regular) |
| Sequence | #2 of 70 tracked resets |
| Gap before | 50 days |
| Gap after | 17 days (next reset: 2025-11-22) |
| Running average at that time | 50.0 days (mean of the prior 0 gaps) |
| Where this gap sits in history | longer than 0% of historical gaps (ranked #1 longest among the gaps recorded up to then) |
| Source | public announcement by @thsottiaux ↗, archived by codex-resets.com |
TimelineWHAT HAPPENED
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2025-11-05 20:19 UTCThe Codex team posted a reset-related announcement; scope follows the source.
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Original announcement
“Codex outage resolved. We suffered a minor outage for last 45 minutes which turned into a global outage for last 30 minutes, this is now resolved and we have reset the rate limits. Please let me know if you still see issues. https://t.co/ZkvIOaVMv2”— @thsottiaux on X ↗
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EffectThe event applied to the scope named by the announcement; verify it in your Usage Dashboard.
The era: Winter compensation eraCONTEXT
Announcements in this period cited a November outage recovery, usage discrepancies after a billing-system rewrite, and a Christmas thank-you. The recorded causes differ and do not establish a fixed schedule.
In the full sequence, this is event #1 of 6 in the "Winter compensation era"; 17 days later, the next reset landed on schedule on 2025-11-22. Announced on a Wednesday, 50 days after its predecessor — those numbers together are this event's coordinates on the timeline.
What it means for youTAKEAWAY
Compensation events respond to an incident or usage-accounting problem. Eligibility and action must be read from that event's announcement.The 50-day gap ran above the then-average, a reminder that long silences can end in either a big compensation or more silence — watching the pressure gauge beats guessing motives.
FAQCOMMON QUESTIONS
What was the Codex global reset on November 5, 2025 (Wednesday)?
On November 5, 2025 (Wednesday), the Codex team posted a outage compensation reset announcement — event #2 of 70 in the archive, 50 days after the previous one, part of the "Winter compensation era". the source does not state account scope; eligibility and required action follow the linked source and Usage Dashboard.
What was being compensated?
Judging by the announcement, this was a post-incident compensation. The linked source determines who was covered; this page does not infer unaffected or unnamed accounts.
When was the next global reset after this one?
The archive has the historical answer: the next record landed on 2025-11-22, 17 days later. That is hindsight, not a forecast that was available at the time.