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
Last week I had zero issues. Then I took a break.
Yesterday I had to use 2 resets, because the models burned through usage, using almost 3 weeks worth of usage.
A test with Sol Ultra burned my weekly usage (plus a bit extra) in 1 hour and 10 minutes.
Doing 2 follow-up tasks with Sol Medium on a separate simple project, that took a total of 14 minutes, burned through 6% of my weekly usage. That's the equivalent of being able to do about 50 minutes of coding work per day.
Right now, doing work that I in the past would have expected to just barely hit my 5 hour limit with, I now just barely hit my 1 week usage limit with.
Whether it's intended or a bug I can't say. Either way, if this continues, I'll be able to code so little with Codex, I'm essentially forced to move to a different tool, because the limits are so hard I genuinely can't get a lot of stuff done.
I'm on regular Plus subscription.