This was a milestone-celebration reset: Codex hit a new growth marker and the team thanked the community with a global refill, announced together with the milestone.
The announcement: “Our Codex dashboards are showing increased rate of users hitting rate limits and…”
Reading the announcement: gratitude and celebration set the tone of these 47 words, posted in the afternoon — wrapping a reset as community goodwill is the team's consistent register.
Quick factsTHE SNAPSHOT
| Item | Data |
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| Announced | 2026-04-01 07:48 UTC (Beijing 2026-04-01 15:48, Wednesday) |
| Type | Milestone Celebration Reset (reset_type: regular) |
| Sequence | #14 of 70 tracked resets |
| Gap before | 5 days |
| Gap after | 7 days (next reset: 2026-04-07) |
| Running average at that time | 15.1 days (mean of the prior 12 gaps) |
| Where this gap sits in history | longer than 38% of historical gaps (ranked #7 longest among the gaps recorded up to then) |
| Source | public announcement by @thsottiaux ↗, archived by codex-resets.com |
TimelineWHAT HAPPENED
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2026-04-01 07:48 UTCThe Codex team posted a reset-related announcement; scope follows the source.
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Original announcement
“Our Codex dashboards are showing increased rate of users hitting rate limits and since we don't fully understand why I have made the cautious decision of resetting the usage limits for all plans. Enjoy. I also wanted to celebrate us finding a pocket of fraudulent accounts that”— @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: Growth eraCONTEXT
Announcements in this period paired reset events with 3M weekly users, the $100 plan launch and Codex's first anniversary. These are documented historical contexts, not evidence that a future milestone will trigger a reset.
In the full sequence, this is event #2 of 7 in the "Growth era"; 7 days later, the next reset landed on schedule on 2026-04-07. Announced on a Wednesday, 5 days 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.At 5 days, the gap was close to the historical norm — a routine move inside the rhythm.
FAQCOMMON QUESTIONS
What was the Codex global reset on April 1, 2026 (Wednesday)?
On April 1, 2026 (Wednesday), the Codex team posted a milestone celebration reset announcement — event #14 of 70 in the archive, 5 days after the previous one, part of the "Growth era". detected source scope: all_paid; eligibility and required action follow the linked source and Usage Dashboard.
Do I need to do anything for this event?
Read the linked announcement and your Usage Dashboard. Automatic resets and redeemable banked resets are different; this event's source determines the required action.
When was the next global reset after this one?
The archive has the historical answer: the next record landed on 2026-04-07, 7 days later. That is hindsight, not a forecast that was available at the time.