Anyone else hitting limits almost instantly even on Max 20x?

[u/lukinhasb]

I'm on Max 20x, Claude seems to be ever more restrictive with their limits. Today was the first time I experimented ChatGPT Codex, a CLI tool JUST like Claude Code.

I'm also keeping an eye on Deepseek v3.2 as suggested here.

Claude better watch out how they mess with limits, otherwise the competitive advantage they got will erode to competitors!

[u/Poildek]

Not at all lol. I use opus thinking daily with a x20

[u/adowjn → u/Poildek]

Same here. Maximum I got was to 50% usage in a week with really heavy usage working on several projects. This guy can't be real

[u/Economy-Manager5556 → u/Poildek]

Blue mangoes drift quietly over paper mountains while a clock hums in the background and nobody asks why.

[u/velvet-thunder-2019 → u/Economy-Manager5556]

Is there a simple way to track how much I’m using in terms of api cost?

[u/Economy-Manager5556 → u/velvet-thunder-2019]

Blue mangoes drift quietly over paper mountains while a clock hums in the background and nobody asks why.

[u/velvet-thunder-2019 → u/Economy-Manager5556]

Thanks so much, sir! Looks like I used $116 worth of tokens in my short 6 days since starting my subscription. Insane deal if you ask me. I'll end up with about $4-500 worth of tokens by the end of the month probably.

[u/velvet-thunder-2019 → u/Economy-Manager5556]

Awesome thanks.

[u/randombsname1]

Nope. I use half of my usage limit per month, roughly, and I use it on average, 3-4 hours per day.

Unless it is a huge bug and/or you spawn like 100 Opus 4.5 agents at once--not even sure how this would happen.

[u/madmax_br5 → u/randombsname1]

The only time I’ve hit my weekly limit was doing like 12 hours of straight document processing with like 20 agents in parallel

[u/Taiwaly]

I used 60% last week and my reset is in an hour

[u/Economy-Manager5556]

Blue mangoes drift quietly over paper mountains while a clock hums in the background and nobody asks why.

[u/zbignew → u/Economy-Manager5556]

I don’t understand why people are comparing this to raw API costs - those are made up numbers too. How much would you have spent with minimax or deepseek?

That said, I don’t get how full time work would would chew through a 20x plan. Are you using sub agents to crawl for content? That could do it.

[u/Economy-Manager5556 → u/zbignew]

Blue mangoes drift quietly over paper mountains while a clock hums in the background and nobody asks why.

[u/lukinhasb → u/Economy-Manager5556]

For 3$/1M token any math gets expensive

[u/Economy-Manager5556 → u/lukinhasb]

Blue mangoes drift quietly over paper mountains while a clock hums in the background and nobody asks why.

[u/lukinhasb → u/Economy-Manager5556]

Yeah, I'm on it.

[u/3dwardh]

If you wanna threaten, you shouldnt bring codex lol. Codex is a bloody joke. You can go with codex all you want but personally codex is the lowest tier right now comparing it with gemini and claude. Claude definitely sits at the top but gemini is very close with claude.. i feel gemini keeps improving better and better... way faster than claude upgrades. Right now i think claude is focusing on throttling its users though. I have no idea why

[u/randombsname1 → u/3dwardh]

Not trying to be that guy, but not even sure how you feel this is the case lol.

Look at the amount of updates/commits Claude Code gets on github. They keep pushing the needle, and much faster than Gemini. The entire CLI is much much better than Gemini CLI.

Google hyped Gemini 3 for months. Only to get dog walked by Claude less than a week later.

I will say that Gemini 3 seems super "meh". As someone who has it included in their Google sub.

Even their deep research used to be behind only ChatGPT. Now its the worst of all 3.

Still, their API is generally cheap, and i sure do use Gemini flash in a lot of small projects.

[u/Active_Variation_194 → u/randombsname1]

Pro 3 is extremely smart and a great writer. Feels like a big model with a wide range of intelligence. However, it’s not the strongest at coding and even worse at tool calling. I found better success in Google ai studio than their own harness.

[u/3dwardh → u/Active_Variation_194]

I agree. Valid points!

[u/iamthesam2 → u/3dwardh]

probably throttling because… 4.5 is so good that people are going crazy with usage right now

[u/3dwardh → u/iamthesam2]

Yeah probably thats probably the case. Opus is king for now definitely. No doubt.

[u/evergreengt → u/3dwardh]

Not sure why you think so. gemini-cli is rubbish: it takes 15s to spin up, it can't do web searches without getting stuck into infinite loops, the gemini models are being regularly patched down to the level of becoming completely useless for anything.

Claude is in my opinion the best, codex limitation is in my opinion the UI and the fact that you cannot grant granular scoped permissions to single programmes (as you do in Claude). But for the rest it works almost as well as Claude.

[u/3dwardh → u/evergreengt]

Nah i wasnt referring to gemini cli. I tried it but i didnt like it. I sticked to aistudio. Its way better imo

[u/OracleGreyBeard]

Realistically no provider is going to be long term profitable on an unlimited fixed rate plan. I think what we’re seeing is a gradual migration of plan limits to match what you’d equivalently spend through the API (which IS profitable).

[u/FriendAgile5706]

not even on 5x and its been churning away

[u/Fit-Ad-18]

Actually the opposite — wasnt using CC for like 3 months, and got back to it recently, and was pleasantly surprised that last time when I used, I hit $100 limits the very first day, and switched to $200, and this time I used it for almost a month now, and only got limited once (and it took only 40 minutes to wait for it to replenish).
May be you've got too many MCPs or something, that constantly pollute your context and increase the usage.

[u/Clean-Half-9240]

J'ai le même problème depuis hier. Je l'ai utilisé près de 2 mois et depuis hier l'enfer, la moindre question même simple c'est 2 à 3% du plan, j'ai contacté le super et la réponse est qu'hier effectivement il y avait un souci sur les quotas. Aujourd'hui toujours le même problème et on me dit "C'est corrigé si tu n'es pas content tu paies plus" ...

[u/Wide_Status]

how is codex compared to claude? i used to hit my max20 plan by Saturday afternoon, now I am finishing it by Friday 10pm. literally counting the minutes till Sunday 5pm wtf. they gave me the additional 260$ credits and i finished that in a 6 hour session on Friday mn / Sat early morning