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Possible Pro 20x entitlement or weekly quota accounting mismatch

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Description

What version of Codex CLI is running?

codex-cli 0.147.0

What subscription do you have?

Pro 20x

Which model were you using?

gpt-5.6-sol, terra, luna

What platform is your computer?

Linux 5.4.250-2-velinux1u1-amd64 x86_64 x86_64

What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?

VS Code

Codex doctor report
{
 "schemaVersion": 1,
 "generatedAt": "1786623683s since unix epoch",
 "overallStatus": "ok",
 "codexVersion": "0.147.0",
 "checks": {
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     "id": "app_server.status",
     "category": "app-server",
     "status": "ok",
     "summary": "background server is not running",
     "details": {
       "control socket": "/root/.codex/app-server-control/app-server-control.sock",
       "daemon state dir": "/root/.codex/app-server-daemon",
       "mode": "ephemeral",
       "pid file": "/root/.codex/app-server-daemon/app-server.pid (missing)",
       "settings": "/root/.codex/app-server-daemon/settings.json (missing)",
       "status": "not running",
       "update-loop pid file": "/root/.codex/app-server-daemon/app-server-updater.pid (missing)"
     },
     "remediation": null,
     "durationMs": 0
   },
   "auth.credentials": {
     "id": "auth.credentials",
     "category": "auth",
     "status": "ok",
     "summary": "auth is configured",
     "details": {
       "auth file": "/root/.codex/auth.json",
       "auth storage mode": "File",
       "stored API key": "false",
       "stored ChatGPT tokens": "true",
       "stored agent identity": "false",
       "stored auth mode": "chatgpt"
     },
     "remediation": null,
     "durationMs": 0
   },
   "config.load": {
     "id": "config.load",
     "category": "config",
     "status": "ok",
     "summary": "config loaded",
     "details": {
       "CODEX_HOME": "/root/.codex",
       "config.toml": "/root/.codex/config.toml",
       "config.toml parse": "ok",
       "cwd": "~",
       "enabled feature flags": "shell_tool, view_image, unified_exec, shell_snapshot, code_mode_host, terminal_resize_reflow, sqlite, memories, hooks, enable_request_compression, multi_agent, apps, tool_search_always_defer_mcp_tools, tool_suggest, plugins, in_app_browser, in_app_updates, browser_use, browser_use_full_cdp_access, browser_use_external, computer_use, remote_plugin, plugin_sharing, image_generation, resize_all_images, item_ids, skill_mcp_dependency_install, skill_search, mentions_v2, steer, guardian_approval, goals, collaboration_modes, tool_call_mcp_elicitation, auth_elicitation, personality, fast_mode, tui_app_server, remote_compaction_v2, workspace_dependencies",
       "feature flag overrides": "memories=true",
       "feature flags enabled": "40",
       "log dir": "/root/.codex/log",
       "mcp servers": "1",
       "model": "gpt-5.6-luna",
       "model provider": "openai",
       "sqlite home": "/root/.codex"
     },
     "remediation": null,
     "durationMs": 0
   },
   "git.environment": {
     "id": "git.environment",
     "category": "git",
     "status": "ok",
     "summary": "git version 2.34.1",
     "details": {
       "PATH git #1": "/usr/bin/git",
       "PATH git #2": "/bin/git",
       "PATH git entries": "2",
       "git build options": "git version 2.34.1; cpu: x86_64; no commit associated with this build; sizeof-long: 8; sizeof-size_t: 8; shell-path: /bin/sh",
       "git exec path": "/usr/lib/git-core",
       "git version": "git version 2.34.1",
       "repo detected": "false",
       "selected git": "/usr/bin/git"
     },
     "remediation": null,
     "durationMs": 88
   },
   "installation": {
     "id": "installation",
     "category": "install",
     "status": "ok",
     "summary": "installation looks consistent",
     "details": {
       "PATH codex #1": "/root/.local/bin/codex",
       "current executable": "/root/.codex/packages/standalone/releases/0.147.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl/bin/codex",
       "install context": "standalone (unix, package /root/.codex/packages/standalone/releases/0.147.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl, bin /root/.codex/packages/standalone/releases/0.147.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl/bin, resources /root/.codex/packages/standalone/releases/0.147.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl/codex-resources, path /root/.codex/packages/standalone/releases/0.147.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl/codex-path)",
       "managed by bun": "false",
       "managed by npm": "false",
       "managed by pnpm": "false",
       "managed package root": "not set"
     },
     "remediation": null,
     "durationMs": 0
   },
   "mcp.config": {
     "id": "mcp.config",
     "category": "mcp",
     "status": "ok",
     "summary": "MCP configuration is locally consistent",
     "details": {
       "configured servers": "1",
       "disabled servers": "0",
       "streamable_http servers": "1"
     },
     "remediation": null,
     "durationMs": 635
   },
   "network.env": {
     "id": "network.env",
     "category": "network",
     "status": "ok",
     "summary": "network-related environment looks readable",
     "details": {
       "proxy env vars present": "HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY, ALL_PROXY, NO_PROXY, http_proxy, https_proxy, all_proxy, no_proxy"
     },
     "remediation": null,
     "durationMs": 0
   },
   "network.provider_reachability": {
     "id": "network.provider_reachability",
     "category": "reachability",
     "status": "ok",
     "summary": "active provider endpoints are reachable over HTTP",
     "details": {
       "ChatGPT base URL": "https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/ reachable (HTTP 403)",
       "reachability mode": "ChatGPT auth"
     },
     "remediation": null,
     "durationMs": 1262
   },
   "network.websocket_reachability": {
     "id": "network.websocket_reachability",
     "category": "websocket",
     "status": "ok",
     "summary": "Responses WebSocket handshake succeeded",
     "details": {
       "DNS": "2 IPv4, 2 IPv6, first IPv4",
       "auth mode": "chatgpt",
       "connect timeout": "15000 ms",
       "endpoint": "wss://chatgpt.com/backend-api/<redacted>",
       "handshake result": "HTTP 101 Switching Protocols",
       "model provider": "openai",
       "models etag present": "true",
       "provider name": "OpenAI",
       "proxy env vars present": "HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY, ALL_PROXY, NO_PROXY, http_proxy, https_proxy, all_proxy, no_proxy",
       "reasoning header": "false",
       "server model present": "false",
       "supports websockets": "true",
       "wire API": "responses"
     },
     "remediation": null,
     "durationMs": 2494
   },
   "runtime.provenance": {
     "id": "runtime.provenance",
     "category": "runtime",
     "status": "ok",
     "summary": "running standalone on linux-x86_64",
     "details": {
       "commit": "unknown",
       "current executable": "/root/.codex/packages/standalone/releases/0.147.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl/bin/codex",
       "install method": "standalone (unix, package /root/.codex/packages/standalone/releases/0.147.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl, bin /root/.codex/packages/standalone/releases/0.147.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl/bin, resources /root/.codex/packages/standalone/releases/0.147.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl/codex-resources, path /root/.codex/packages/standalone/releases/0.147.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl/codex-path)",
       "platform": "linux-x86_64",
       "version": "0.147.0"
     },
     "remediation": null,
     "durationMs": 0
   },
   "runtime.search": {
     "id": "runtime.search",
     "category": "search",
     "status": "ok",
     "summary": "search is OK (bundled)",
     "details": {
       "search command": "/root/.codex/packages/standalone/releases/0.147.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl/codex-path/rg",
       "search command readiness": "file exists",
       "search provider": "bundled"
     },
     "remediation": null,
     "durationMs": 0
   },
   "sandbox.helpers": {
     "id": "sandbox.helpers",
     "category": "sandbox",
     "status": "ok",
     "summary": "sandbox configuration is readable",
     "details": {
       "approval policy": "Never",
       "codex-linux-sandbox helper": "/root/.codex/tmp/arg0/codex-arg0UNfmdB/codex-linux-sandbox",
       "execve wrapper helper": "/root/.codex/tmp/arg0/codex-arg0UNfmdB/codex-execve-wrapper",
       "filesystem sandbox": "unrestricted",
       "network sandbox": "enabled"
     },
     "remediation": null,
     "durationMs": 0
   },
   "state.paths": {
     "id": "state.paths",
     "category": "state",
     "status": "ok",
     "summary": "state paths and databases are inspectable",
     "details": {
       "CODEX_HOME": "/root/.codex (dir)",
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       "archived rollout files": "12 files, 79240743 total bytes, 6603395 average bytes",
       "goals DB": "/root/.codex/goals_1.sqlite (file)",
       "goals DB integrity": "ok",
       "log DB": "/root/.codex/logs_2.sqlite (file)",
       "log DB integrity": "ok",
       "log dir": "/root/.codex/log (dir)",
       "memories DB": "/root/.codex/memories_1.sqlite (file)",
       "memories DB integrity": "ok",
       "queue DB": "/root/.codex/queue_1.sqlite (file)",
       "queue DB integrity": "ok",
       "sqlite home": "/root/.codex (dir)",
       "standalone release cache": "4 entries in /root/.codex/packages/standalone/releases",
       "state DB": "/root/.codex/state_5.sqlite (file)",
       "state DB integrity": "ok",
       "thread history DB": "/root/.codex/thread_history_1.sqlite (file)",
       "thread history DB integrity": "ok"
     },
     "remediation": null,
     "durationMs": 405
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   "state.rollout_db_parity": {
     "id": "state.rollout_db_parity",
     "category": "threads",
     "status": "ok",
     "summary": "rollout files and state DB thread inventory agree",
     "details": {
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       "rollout DB active rows": "58",
       "rollout DB archive mismatches": "0",
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       "rollout DB archived rows": "12",
       "rollout DB duplicate DB paths": "0",
       "rollout DB duplicate rollout thread ids": "0",
       "rollout DB malformed file names": "0",
       "rollout DB missing active rows": "0",
       "rollout DB missing archived rows": "0",
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       "rollout DB scan cap reached": "false",
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   },
   "system.environment": {
     "id": "system.environment",
     "category": "system",
     "status": "ok",
     "summary": "OS language C",
     "details": {
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       "LANG": "C.UTF-8",
       "LC_CTYPE": "C.UTF-8",
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       "os": "Ubuntu 22.4.0 (jammy) [64-bit]",
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     "remediation": null,
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   },
   "terminal.env": {
     "id": "terminal.env",
     "category": "terminal",
     "status": "ok",
     "summary": "terminal metadata was detected",
     "details": {
       "COLORTERM": "truecolor",
       "SSH_CLIENT": "present",
       "SSH_CONNECTION": "present",
       "TERM_PROGRAM": "vscode",
       "VSCODE_IPC_HOOK_CLI": "present",
       "color output": "enabled",
       "effective locale": "C.UTF-8",
       "stderr is terminal": "true",
       "stdin is terminal": "true",
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       "terminal": "VS Code",
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     "remediation": null,
     "durationMs": 0
   },
   "terminal.title": {
     "id": "terminal.title",
     "category": "title",
     "status": "ok",
     "summary": "terminal title default",
     "details": {
       "terminal title activity": "true",
       "terminal title items": "activity, project-name",
       "terminal title project source": "cwd",
       "terminal title project value": "project",
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     },
     "remediation": null,
     "durationMs": 0
   },
   "updates.status": {
     "id": "updates.status",
     "category": "updates",
     "status": "ok",
     "summary": "update configuration is locally consistent",
     "details": {
       "cached latest version": "0.147.0",
       "check for update on startup": "true",
       "last checked at": "2026-08-13T10:23:24.161156824Z",
       "latest version": "0.147.0",
       "latest version status": "current version is not older",
       "update action": "standalone installer",
       "version cache": "/root/.codex/version.json"
     },
     "remediation": null,
     "durationMs": 954
   }
 }
}
What issue are you seeing?

I am subscribed to ChatGPT Pro 20x, but my effective Codex weekly quota consumption appears closer to the Pro 5x tier.

During one controlled workload on August 13, 2026, my 7-day Codex usage increased from 16% used to 19% used, a change of approximately 3 percentage points.

Workload window:

  • 2026-08-13 11:01–11:42 UTC
  • Main session ID: 019ff056-f054-7b43-a9d5-8e69c951903e
  • Standard/default service tier
  • Fast mode was not enabled
  • Models used: GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna
  • One main agent and five subagents
  • No GPU, image generation, or OCR model usage

Local session telemetry records the following aggregate usage, including all subagents:

  • Input tokens: 32,808,375
  • Cached input tokens: 30,708,736
  • Uncached input tokens: 2,099,639
  • Output tokens: 339,513
  • Reasoning tokens: 142,942, already included in output
  • Every individual request was below the 272K long-context threshold

Using the published Standard short-context credit rates, this corresponds to approximately:

  • GPT-5.6 Sol: 512.9 credits
  • GPT-5.6 Terra: 85.2 credits
  • GPT-5.6 Luna: 7.0 credits
  • Total: approximately 605 credits
  • API-price equivalent: approximately USD 24.20

A 605-credit workload consuming approximately 3% of the weekly allowance implies an effective weekly capacity of only about 20,000 credits, or roughly USD 800 at the published API-equivalent rate.
That appears much closer to a Pro 5x allowance than the expected Pro 20x scale.

I understand that the percentage display is rounded and that quota accounting may be delayed. However, the discrepancy is large enough to warrant checking the server-side entitlement and usage ledger.

This may be related to:

Could you please verify:

  1. Whether my account is actually provisioned with the Pro 20x Codex quota bucket.
  2. Whether cached input, subagent activity, retries, or delayed reconciliation were charged correctly.
  3. The exact credits deducted for the session above.
  4. Whether any incorrectly deducted weekly quota can be restored.
  5. Whether the product can expose per-session credit deductions for auditing.
What steps can reproduce the bug?

Uploaded thread: 019ff056-f054-7b43-a9d5-8e69c951903e

What is the expected behavior?

No response

Additional information

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Research direction

Reproduce the report with codex-cli 0.147.0 on a Pro 20x subscription using the listed models, then compare observed usage with the weekly entitlement. Done means the entitlement and quota accounting agree, with coverage for the reproduced mismatch if the relevant code path is identified.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
backend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
42/100

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