OpenAI's Tibo hints at a banked Codex reset on Thursday, November 12, but hasn't promised one

Codex users may get their first usage-limit reset since November 1 on Thursday, November 12. Tibo (Thibault Sottiaux, who leads Codex at OpenAI) wrote on November 11 at 06:55 UTC: "It's been a while without resets. Maybe I should come back out of the basement." Two minutes later he added: "Thursday is feeling codexy to me. Perhaps also a good time for a banked reset."

This is a hint, not an announcement. "Perhaps" is doing a lot of work in that sentence, and neither Tibo nor an official OpenAI account has said which plans would get a reset, at what time, or when it would expire. When he announced the last pair on October 31, he was firmer: "next two days will be resets… banked…", and both arrived on schedule. Nothing since then: we found no Codex reset from Tibo or the OpenAI Developers account between that "Day 28/ Banked 2/2" post on November 1 and today, which matches Tibo's "a while".

What "codexy" means is anyone's guess. Plenty of replies read it as a new model or a Codex release on Thursday. OpenAI hasn't announced either, so treat that as speculation.

If a banked reset does land

A banked reset doesn't refresh anything by itself. Per OpenAI's help page on Codex resets, it sits in your account until you redeem it, and a few details are worth knowing before you hoard or spend one:

• What it restores depends on the plan. Plus and Business Standard get the 5-hour and weekly allowances back; Pro 100, Pro 200 and Pro 500, which have no 5-hour limit, get the weekly allowance; Go gets its monthly allowance.
• You can't redeem it early. At least one covered allowance has to be below 80% remaining, otherwise you'll see "Your usage does not need a reset right now" and the reset stays banked.
• Codex can spend it for you, if you let it. The desktop app has an "Allow your assistant to use resets" setting; it only kicks in once your main 5-hour or weekly allowance is at 10% or less. Turn it off if you'd rather decide yourself.
• Where to redeem. Desktop: Settings > Usage & billing. CLI: /usage, then Redeem reset. Not in the mobile app.
• It moves your schedule. Redeeming restarts the usage period it restores, so your next refresh date shifts too. An allowance already at 100% isn't restarted.
• It expires. Each promotional reset has its own deadline, shown in your account.

If a reset does arrive, there's no rush: it can't be used until you've spent at least 20% of a covered allowance, and the clock that matters is its expiry, not the day it lands.

The bigger change is still the December one, when ChatGPT and Codex move to one shared, token-based usage limit on Plus, Pro and Business. On the Claude side, Anthropic has just given its subscribers one free full reset, usable until December 10. We'll update this story if Thursday brings an actual Codex reset.