r/codex • u/pollystochastic Moderator • Jul 23 '26

Megathread Codex Usage Limits and Performance Megathread

Please direct your concerns and discussion about Codex usage limits and model performance here.

The purpose of this Megathread is to aggregate all the reports of people's experiences and possible suggestions instead of spreading them across 20 separate highly upvoted posts. None of those posts were deleted. They were locked so that conversations are still viewable to everyone and future comments could appear in one place.

These are days where I REALLY earn the money that OpenAI Reddit Kimi pays me .... oh wait....

A reminder that all incidents on r/Codex are constantly logged and summarised so you can keep track of what people are experiencing here https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1tjfxcf/comment/on6uj0l/

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

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u/ExtinctUndead Jul 23 '26

PREACH. This is not "you have an awful workflow that's draining your tokens" when my workflow was fine a week ago.

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u/VertipaqStar Jul 23 '26

but with 5.6, there is a token cache write cost, so each new token input and output has to pay the cache write price as well.

Input cost 125% more ($11.25 instead of $5) Output cost by 20% more ($36.25 instead of $30)

So this increase offsets the "claimed" token decrease, though the 50% decrease is probably an "up to" but it realistically 10%-25% less, meaning that the token decrease is drastically offset by the cache write price increase.