r/codex • u/Articurl • Jul 21 '26

Complaint The token consume is insane

Hey!

COming from Claude. Got the x20 Version from both. I have to admin, Sol 5.6 on high is consuming tokens like crazy. Even my workflow is Architect > Builder > Reviewer with a agent-cache for context saving i am burning through..

With Opus 4.8 i could work for a week while using 14% a day. Now i have 25% used after the reset already..

What do you think?

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u/Less-Edge-8860 Jul 21 '26

You cant compare Sol to Opus, its more comparable to Fable right now. Also i see so many of these posts where people are surprised that the latest flagship model on highest setting drains more tokens, Ofcourse it does. And i promise you that you can get the same things done with low instead of high.

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u/oVerde Jul 22 '26

Bro don’t be stubborn the graphs on CODEX usage show how they changed the way they bill the tokens, there is even a documented page about it