Some Codex users are seeing a “Selected Model is at Capacity” error.
We’re working to resolve it as quickly as possible.
Updates: https://status.openai.com/incidents/01KV7ZT644J4V94GSXMFPY2ANR
5:39 AM · Jun 16, 2026 · 7.6K Views
OpenAI Codex model experiences service outage causing capacity errors and elevated failure rates
Story Overview
OpenAI Codex is throwing capacity errors for affected users right now, with the specific message 'Selected Model is at Capacity' appearing alongside broader elevated failure rates. The company has flagged the incident as identified and ongoing for roughly two hours while engineers push a mitigation, though no recovery estimate or root-cause details have been shared yet.
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Developer Impact
Codex API calls are the primary pain point
Availability varies by subscription tier and specific model features, so some developers see the outage immediately while others remain unaffected for now. Aggregate uptime for Codex still sits near 99.96 percent over recent months, but the live incident overrides those historical numbers.
Open Question
No resolution timeline or cause details yet
Mitigation work continues with updates posted only to the dedicated status page; a separate FedRAMP performance incident has also been running for fifteen hours but appears unrelated. Everything else remains an open question until further reports arrive.
Sentiment
Many users criticize Codex for persistent capacity errors, quality degradation, and bugs harming Plus users, while others thank OpenAI staff for responding to the instability.
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Tibo@thsottiaux
Oy. We are aware that some Codex users are experiencing high error rates with "model at capacity" and are working to bring things back to being stable.
https://status.openai.com/
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ㄚ卂丂丨@Yasamanini
@thsottiaux @OpenAIDevs shit look at the comments I didn't know there's so many dumbfucks literally begging for resets 😂 get up and touch some grass weirdos your balls are cooked already #4oForAll
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mxia@yoyo2deux
@thsottiaux It’s reset time!
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Raiko@raikok90
@thsottiaux Yes, let’s reset those damn limits!
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J@modeez
@thsottiaux Please fix the phone verification issue. I don't have access to the number I had in 2022. It will only let me log on now with it, even though I have a passkey, TOTP, email access, ect! Other people are having the same issue!
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nippy@QingTang32523
@thsottiaux Not only that, but the quality of the current models is very unstable and often performs very poorly.
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Lorenzo@gabor_rar
@thsottiaux The quality is also worse than two days ago. Check it pls!
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SMOUJ@smouj013
@thsottiaux
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Gurbaksh Chahal@GurbakshAI
@thsottiaux
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Yuvraj@yuvraajsj18
@thsottiaux
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Yeleven@yeleven1111
@thsottiaux Please make this a reset I have 9% weekly and 5 days left
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Rookie@UdNtC4r3AnYwHaY
@thsottiaux noooo, I still haven't used my free reset yet
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ㄚ卂丂丨@Yasamanini
@danny_______ @thsottiaux @OpenAIDevs oh really? do those people actually work, or does the AI do the work for them?
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David Brown@DaBrown95
@thsottiaux @OpenAIDevs
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Dr Argy Bargy ⛩️@DrArgyBargy
@thsottiaux No worries. If you want, just deploy Codex 5.6.
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JeffersonNunn.eth@mindragon
@thsottiaux Someone get Claude to re-release Fable 5 so all the "Vibers" go back over there and us workers can get back to work.
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crashout@0xCRASHOUT
@Yasamanini @thsottiaux @OpenAIDevs we want gpt 6 lil sis
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Axojin@Axojin
@thsottiaux Yea it happened to me too, and its also just painfully slow. Basically unusable
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FredipusRex@FredipusRex
@thsottiaux Say the line, Tibo!
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Lord Saucy@Lordsaucyy
@xacherian @thsottiaux Don’t use /goal until they fix it
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