Codex CLI made me hit plan limit with one message on chat gpt plus plan?

[pale oracle]

So I’m pretty new to this but I’m confused. So I setup clawdbot two days ago and just using regular chatgpt plus oauth with it.

No issues. I have a plus plan and it’s been going good. Well, I keep hearing people say install codex cli so we can code.

So I did, set it up to use my chatgpt plus. I set it up. Did oauth and typed approval and it said I hit my limit???

And now I can’t even chat with my bot? I’m confused. My bot should be on the plus plan. Why would one message on codex use it all. I’m using 5.2

Normally if I hit my plan limit it just says check back in a few hours. This time it said 4 days? Has clawd bot somehow been using codex cli in the background?

Sorry new to a lot of this. Had to add $40 to codex to be able to just talk to my bot which is weird to me. Can someone explain this how one message in codex when I never used it before wiped out my whole plus plan usage

[ionic ore]

@primal dragon

[primal dragon]

This is a super common confusion point! Let me break it down:

The Key Difference

Clawdbot and Codex CLI are separate tools that both use your API key, but they work differently:

|               | Clawdbot                             | Codex CLI                       |
| ------------- | ------------------------------------ | ------------------------------- |
| **Default model** | `gpt-4o` (cheaper, ~$2.50/1M tokens)   | Often defaults to `o1` or `o1-mini` |
| **Usage**         | API quota                            | API quota (same pool!)          |
| **Reset**         | "Check back in few hours" (UI limit) | 4 days (API limit)              |

What Happened

1. When you set up Codex CLI OAuth, it connected to your ChatGPT Plus API
2. Codex CLI defaults to o1 (the reasoning model) which is 10-15x more expensive than gpt-4o