What issue are you seeing?
My weekly usage completed yesterday [2026-03-14] around 1:00pm where I purchased an additional $40 of credits. I burned 80% of my credits doing a small portion of work [1000 Credits > 208 Credits].
Overnight my OpenClaw system ran two GPT 5.1 Codex Mini prompts and one GPT 5.4 prompts dropping my credits from 208 to 178. This morning after three prompts to my OpenClaw System [GPT 5.4] my credits dropped from 178 to 161 going over the "hover" effects 4 credits per prompt max [161 credits left hover showed 40 local prompts available worst case scenario].
If you take a look at my usage this clearly indicates as problem either with the graph representing usage, or the amount of credits that are being used.
The bar for 2026-03-14 [Second from the right] indicates I used a typical amount of usage as a normal day before the weird spikes from issue #13568, and the subsequent weekly resets. My Plus plan will usually last me four days a week and one purchase of the $40 credit will cover the deficit for a month and a week. If we take into account the 30% faster usage for using GPT 5.4 the $36 of credits used should last me substantially longer than one day at typical use.
While all my usage was through OpenClaw on 2026-03-14 and 2026-03-15 the graph clearly indicates I did not do a substantial amount of work compared to my typical days.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
- Setup OpenClaw locally on your computer.
- Attach OpenAI-Codex O-Auth to your OpenClaw installation.
- Set GPT 5.4 as your default model.
- Use up all weekly allotment of Codex Credits on a Plus account.
- Purchase an additional $40 of top up to get 1k Credits.
- Use the following token amounts per model [might be more as this doesn't include chatting tokens]:
• gpt-5.4 → input 2,018,178 | output 188,938
• gpt-5.1-codex-mini → input 324,003 | output 38,983
- Verify this brings credits from 1000 to 208
What is the expected behavior?
Assuming standard API pricing, no cached input, and not Batch/Flex/Priority just using the API would cost:
gpt-5.4 at $2.50 / 1M input and $15.00 / 1M output:
2,018,178 input = $5.05
188,938 output = $2.83
Subtotal: $7.88
gpt-5.1-codex-mini at $0.25 / 1M input and $2.00 / 1M output:
324,003 input = $0.08
38,983 output = $0.08
Subtotal: $0.16
Total: $8.04
Which would be about 20% of my $40 credit assuming calling the API is the same as using Codex's credits.
Lets take the worse case scenario, I used twice the amount of GPT 5.4 tokens, as the above doesn't take into account chat usage, and applying the "Long Context Single Session Surcharge" [Note: I used new sessions often]:
gpt-5.4 Doubled usage: 4,036,356 input and 377,876 output
Base pricing is $2.50 / 1M input and $15.00 / 1M output, and for GPT-5.4 sessions with more than 272K input tokens, OpenAI charges 2x input and 1.5x output for the full session. That makes the effective rates $5.00 / 1M input and $22.50 / 1M output.
Input cost: $20.18178
Output cost: $8.50221
Subtotal: $28.68399 ≈ $28.68
gpt-5.1-codex-mini
Doubled usage: 648,006 input and 77,966 output
Pricing is $0.25 / 1M input and $2.00 / 1M output.
Input cost: $0.1620015
Output cost: $0.155932
Subtotal: $0.3179335 ≈ $0.32
Total: $29.0019235 ≈ $29.00.
This would be about 72.5% of my $40 credit assuming calling the API is the same as using Codex's credits. While this is much closer to the amount used this usage does not reflect in the usage graph.
Additional information
I'm currently speaking to support via email with Case Number: 06791252.
I might be delayed responding here. If you'd like me to test anything or provide additional information feel free to email me at the address attached in the Support Ticket.
2026-03-15 19:16 Edit:
I don't believe this issue is a duplicate of #13854 as I have not been using Spark/changing models in Codex and this issue is not using the Codex App.
I've been attempting to use GPT 5.4 in OpenClaw and Codex to see if this usage drain is more of a graphing issue or probable backend issue.
I've used OpenClaw and Codex for an hour today and it almost used the last 20% of my credits. Looking at the graph it looks to be ~25% the height of the previous days usage.
I don't believe this is a graphing issue. There's definitely something wrong where either $40 of credits provides substantially less than half the weekly usage of the $20 Plus plan or usage is being consumed at an alarming rate.
Side Note:
Unsure if related - I've noticed a dramatic decrease in GPT 5.4's intelligence today. Substantial hallucinations when asked to launch Cron jobs [OpenClaw], "Laziness" in terms of following my instructions and implementation [Codex].
2026-03-16 Edit:
I realized the usage dashboard clearly shows the issue:
I purchased 1k in credits on 2026-03-13 12:01PM and in the usage table I've only used 534.89. That doesn't take into account I used Codex substantially before 12:01PM that day.
4.11 + 9.825 + 125.905 + 74.505 + 320.545 = 534.89
What issue are you seeing?
My weekly usage completed yesterday [2026-03-14] around 1:00pm where I purchased an additional $40 of credits. I burned 80% of my credits doing a small portion of work [1000 Credits > 208 Credits].
Overnight my OpenClaw system ran two GPT 5.1 Codex Mini prompts and one GPT 5.4 prompts dropping my credits from 208 to 178. This morning after three prompts to my OpenClaw System [GPT 5.4] my credits dropped from 178 to 161 going over the "hover" effects 4 credits per prompt max [161 credits left hover showed 40 local prompts available worst case scenario].
If you take a look at my usage this clearly indicates as problem either with the graph representing usage, or the amount of credits that are being used.
The bar for 2026-03-14 [Second from the right] indicates I used a typical amount of usage as a normal day before the weird spikes from issue #13568, and the subsequent weekly resets. My Plus plan will usually last me four days a week and one purchase of the $40 credit will cover the deficit for a month and a week. If we take into account the 30% faster usage for using GPT 5.4 the $36 of credits used should last me substantially longer than one day at typical use.
While all my usage was through OpenClaw on 2026-03-14 and 2026-03-15 the graph clearly indicates I did not do a substantial amount of work compared to my typical days.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
• gpt-5.4 → input 2,018,178 | output 188,938
• gpt-5.1-codex-mini → input 324,003 | output 38,983
What is the expected behavior?
Assuming standard API pricing, no cached input, and not Batch/Flex/Priority just using the API would cost:
gpt-5.4 at $2.50 / 1M input and $15.00 / 1M output:
2,018,178 input = $5.05
188,938 output = $2.83
Subtotal: $7.88
gpt-5.1-codex-mini at $0.25 / 1M input and $2.00 / 1M output:
324,003 input = $0.08
38,983 output = $0.08
Subtotal: $0.16
Total: $8.04
Which would be about 20% of my $40 credit assuming calling the API is the same as using Codex's credits.
Lets take the worse case scenario, I used twice the amount of GPT 5.4 tokens, as the above doesn't take into account chat usage, and applying the "Long Context Single Session Surcharge" [Note: I used new sessions often]:
gpt-5.4 Doubled usage: 4,036,356 input and 377,876 output
Base pricing is $2.50 / 1M input and $15.00 / 1M output, and for GPT-5.4 sessions with more than 272K input tokens, OpenAI charges 2x input and 1.5x output for the full session. That makes the effective rates $5.00 / 1M input and $22.50 / 1M output.
Input cost: $20.18178
Output cost: $8.50221
Subtotal: $28.68399 ≈ $28.68
gpt-5.1-codex-mini
Doubled usage: 648,006 input and 77,966 output
Pricing is $0.25 / 1M input and $2.00 / 1M output.
Input cost: $0.1620015
Output cost: $0.155932
Subtotal: $0.3179335 ≈ $0.32
Total: $29.0019235 ≈ $29.00.
This would be about 72.5% of my $40 credit assuming calling the API is the same as using Codex's credits. While this is much closer to the amount used this usage does not reflect in the usage graph.
Additional information
I'm currently speaking to support via email with Case Number: 06791252.
I might be delayed responding here. If you'd like me to test anything or provide additional information feel free to email me at the address attached in the Support Ticket.
2026-03-15 19:16 Edit:
I don't believe this issue is a duplicate of #13854 as I have not been using Spark/changing models in Codex and this issue is not using the Codex App.
I've been attempting to use GPT 5.4 in OpenClaw and Codex to see if this usage drain is more of a graphing issue or probable backend issue.
I've used OpenClaw and Codex for an hour today and it almost used the last 20% of my credits. Looking at the graph it looks to be ~25% the height of the previous days usage.
I don't believe this is a graphing issue. There's definitely something wrong where either $40 of credits provides substantially less than half the weekly usage of the $20 Plus plan or usage is being consumed at an alarming rate.
Side Note:
Unsure if related - I've noticed a dramatic decrease in GPT 5.4's intelligence today. Substantial hallucinations when asked to launch Cron jobs [OpenClaw], "Laziness" in terms of following my instructions and implementation [Codex].
2026-03-16 Edit:
I realized the usage dashboard clearly shows the issue:
I purchased 1k in credits on 2026-03-13 12:01PM and in the usage table I've only used 534.89. That doesn't take into account I used Codex substantially before 12:01PM that day.
4.11 + 9.825 + 125.905 + 74.505 + 320.545 = 534.89