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Root Cause

Plus and Business should consume roughly comparable Codex usage under identical conditions, because the public Codex pricing page shows similar included Codex usage for Plus and Business.

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What issue are you seeing?

I have both ChatGPT Plus and ChatGPT Business.

Under controlled identical conditions, my Business account drains Codex usage around 5–10× faster than my Plus account.

Conditions were the same:

  • same machine
  • same Codex version
  • same repository / codebase
  • same prompt
  • same model: GPT-5.5
  • same reasoning level
  • same local/cloud mode
  • fresh session
  • no parallel agents

The public Codex pricing page shows Plus and Business should have similar included Codex usage, so this looks like a possible metering/accounting bug or a Business-specific quota/metering discrepancy.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Reproduction steps

  1. Use two accounts:

    • Account A: ChatGPT Plus
    • Account B: ChatGPT Business

  2. On the same machine, open the same Codex surface:

    • Codex App
    • same Codex version

  3. Use the same repository / codebase.

  4. Start a fresh Codex session in both accounts.

  5. Configure both sessions identically:

    • Model: GPT-5.5
    • Same reasoning level
    • Same local/cloud mode
    • Fast mode disabled/enabled identically
    • No parallel agents
    • No automations
    • No extra context/files manually added to one account only

  6. Before running the task, record Codex usage/quota status in both accounts:

    • 5-hour usage remaining
    • weekly usage remaining, if visible
    • /status output, if available

  7. Run the exact same prompt against the exact same repository in both accounts.

  8. After the task completes, record the same usage/quota status again.

  9. Compare usage consumed by Plus vs Business.

Observed result

The Business account consumes Codex quota dramatically faster than Plus for the same GPT-5.5 task, approximately 5–10× faster in my observation.

Expected result

Plus and Business should consume roughly comparable Codex usage under identical conditions, because the public Codex pricing page shows similar included Codex usage for Plus and Business.

Notes

This does not appear to be caused by different model choice, different repo size, different prompt, different reasoning level, or different local/cloud mode. Those variables were controlled.

What is the expected behavior?

Business and Plus should consume roughly comparable Codex usage for the same task when model, repo, prompt, mode, and reasoning level are identical.

Additional information

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