OpenAI Codex lead points to sub2api as users report shrinking limits

OpenAI’s Codex lead, Thibault Sottiaux, has clarified that the company did not change usage limits without informing developers. 

The company is instead directing the blame to third-party “sub2api” tools after paying users reported that their weekly Codex allowance was draining far faster than the plans they bought.

Did OpenAI reduce its usage limits? 

Thibault Sottiaux, who now runs both ChatGPT and Codex as OpenAI’s head of core products, addressed complaints from developers that their weekly codex allowance was draining quickly in a widely shared X post. 

Sottiaux wrote that adjusting usage caps is not something the company does without talking to the community and being transparent about it. 

When his team looked at the accounts that were burning through allowances, he said that many of them were running “sub2api” setups, which repackage a ChatGPT subscription so it can be called like OpenAI’s metered, pay-as-you-go API. 

However, OpenAI’s own documentation notes, subscription access and API-key access are billed on separate tracks.

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