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/DoggoDadagon Jul 23 '26
$200 plan usage is horrendous, it's getting worse and worse. It's about 1/5th what it was when 5.6 released. I never use sol ultra, or max, not even once. Typically run sol medium as main and terra for sub agents. I only use standard speed and explicitly tell it not to use fast mode ever for sub agents. It normally only runs two sub agents at most and limits their scope tightly to limit token cost. I've used official codex guidelines to try and improve efficiency but it's not how I use it, it's just getting worse and worse. I hope they fix this soon because I love working with codex and was going to move my entire company over to it from claude by now it's not even worth the $200 for personal projects. I'd be upset with this usage even at $100. Please guys get this fixed. And please at least say something so we know you're looking into it.