Drop the 5-hour window for Plus subscribers — keep the weekly cap

Drop the 5-hour window for Plus subscribers — keep the weekly cap

Plus subscribers have a weekly Codex allowance and a 5-hour rolling window on top of it. Pro subscribers only have the weekly cap. The 5-hour window was removed for everyone during the GPT-5.6 rollout in July (announced by Tibo Sottiaux, July 12), then brought back for Plus in late August.

If the weekly cap is enough to manage load from Pro users, the 5-hour window on Plus is a tier gate, not an infrastructure safeguard.

What the window does in practice: I hit the limit mid-task, wait hours, come back, spend tokens re-establishing context, and burn more of my weekly allowance than finishing in one sitting would have cost. The limit makes the same usage cost more tokens because I lose context and have to rebuild it.

#34035 collected 150+ reactions during the period the window was removed. Users preferred the weekly-only model. It came back anyway, but only for the lower-paying tier.

Asking for:

• Remove the 5-hour window for Plus, matching the Pro experience
• Weekly cap stays as the single constraint across both tiers
• If demand spikes need a temporary throttle, apply it transparently across tiers instead of baking it into one plan permanently

I don't want more usage. I want to pick when I spend what's already included in my plan.

No files, tests, or entry points are identified. Start by locating where Plus and Pro allowance limits are enforced, then review issue #34035 for the prior weekly-only behavior. Done means Plus no longer has a 5-hour rolling window, both tiers retain the weekly cap, and any temporary throttling is applied transparently across tiers.