OpenAI subscription at peak hours can cost you ~3-4x the quota

Users are reporting that OpenAI subscriptions at peak hours can cost 3-4x the quota due to delays between cache write and read availability. Conny identified this server-side issue, which affects all coding agents and harnesses equally. To avoid quickly exhausting weekly usage limits, it is suggested to work during off-peak hours until a fix is implemented.

This report uniquely identifies the root cause of OpenAI's quota overconsumption during peak hours as a server-side cache delay, unlike previous user reports that only noted the symptom.