How Codex rate limits work
The short version: the same two-window shape as Claude, read straight from the service.
Two windows here too
A Codex subscription meters use through a five-hour window and a weekly window, each with its own capacity. Hit either and Codex stops taking work on that account until the window resets.
What makes Codex different is where the numbers live. The service reports what is left alongside its answers, and Softcap asks for those same figures directly, with a grant of its own — no prompt sent, no model run.
When they reset
The five-hour window rolls from your first request; the weekly window keeps its own anchor in the week, one per account. As with Claude, two accounts rarely reset together — the offset is the whole value of having both on one screen.
What counts against them
Requests and the model work they cause count. Softcap's own usage requests do not send prompts and do not run models, so watching a limit never moves it.
Watching it without spending it
Sign a Codex account in through the browser and Softcap reads its usage live, with the reading's age shown honestly beside the number. Menu bar, thresholds at 80% and 95%, widgets.
The other provider
Running Claude too? Its limits are metered live: how Claude limits work