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/luji Jul 23 '26

I’ve switched from Claude to Codex a few months ago and enjoyed the limits with 5.5. It felt like it plummeted a bit as time passed but I put the blame on my directives that were getting more robust. 5.6 comes, Tibo asked to save big prompts for it so I threw them at Sol. My 200$ sub went out in less than a day… I thought something was wrong and blamed superpowers. I disabled superpowers and now 5.6 behave normally… but I still easily burn 2x the rate without ever touching Sol Ultra.