A special one: instead of an instant global refill, the team granted banked reset credits to 500k ChatGPT Work and Codex users — storable reset credits to redeem when needed.
Quick factsTHE SNAPSHOT
| Item | Data |
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| Announced | 2026-07-12 21:28 UTC (Beijing 2026-07-13 05:28, Monday) |
| Type | Outage Compensation Reset (reset_type: regular) |
| Sequence | #31 of 70 tracked resets |
| Gap before | 2 days |
| Gap after | 1 days (next reset: 2026-07-13) |
| Running average at that time | 10.0 days (mean of the prior 29 gaps) |
| Where this gap sits in history | longer than 13% of historical gaps (ranked #22 longest among the gaps recorded up to then) |
| Source | public announcement by @thsottiaux ↗, archived by codex-resets.com |
TimelineWHAT HAPPENED
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2026-07-12 21:28 UTCThe Codex team posted a reset-related announcement; scope follows the source.
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Original announcement
“Added a banked reset to 500k users of ChatGPT Work and Codex. What’s been happening: - Just released the ability to use a banked reset from web and mobile. Before today you could only do it in the desktop app - Had an issue where less than 10% of users who used a banked reset”— @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: July reset spreeCONTEXT
This is the archive's densest three-week segment: more than ten public records, a temporary removal of the five-hour limit, announced user growth from 7M to 10M, and a banked-reset grant to 500k users. That density should not be extrapolated into a future cadence.
In the full sequence, this is event #4 of 12 in the "July reset spree"; 1 day later, the next reset landed on schedule on 2026-07-13. Announced on a Sunday, 2 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.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 12, 2026 (Sunday)?
On July 12, 2026 (Sunday), the Codex team posted a outage compensation reset announcement — event #31 of 70 in the archive, 2 days after the previous one, part of the "July reset spree". detected source scope: partial / work; 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 2026-07-13, 1 day later. That is hindsight, not a forecast that was available at the time.