OpenAI's Codex went down again, and users are now tracking it
Codex and ChatGPT Work went down again on 25th Sep'26, per OpenAI's own status page, with users reporting failed sessions and stalled agent runs. Codex lead Tibo Sottiaux confirmed a usage-limit reset for affected paid subscribers, continuing a pattern that has repeated roughly every one to two weeks since July, often enough that a community-run tracker now logs every reset. Standard ChatGPT chat mostly kept working through the outage, pointing to the agent layer as its own, less reliable slice of the platform.
What it actually means
This wasn't a one-off. OpenAI has reset paid Codex and ChatGPT Work usage limits after an outage roughly every week or two since July, often with the same breezy note from its Codex lead. There's now a community-run tracker with a running history of every reset, which is what happens when goodwill gestures replace a fixed uptime number.
The lesson isn't to stop using Codex, it's to stop treating a hosted coding agent as always-on infrastructure. Standard ChatGPT chat mostly stayed up through this one, so the agent layer runs as a separate, less reliable domain from the model behind it. If you've wired Codex into a real workflow, keep a tested fallback you can switch to, rather than relying on the next reset to bail you out.
Goodwill resets are not a service-level agreement.
Source: OpenAI Status · Saturday 26 September 2026