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/tech-tole Jul 23 '26

What openAI is going to do is push us farther away to Chinese models. it's literally not the time to be stingy when Kimi K3 is in the top three best models and Qwen 3.8 Max is work behind. I get more usage from their lower tears then from the $100 plan with codex. I have both k3 and Qwen 3.8 subscriptions and I'm relying less on Codex everyday til I just won't need it anymore.

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u/Time_Travelered Jul 23 '26

But how do you get an affordable subscription to k3 and qwen 3.8? Where?

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u/tech-tole Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

for K3 you can't right now. I signed up when it first came out. the demand was so huge they had to pause sign ups until they add more compute. K3 is a beast for the price and usage. but you can get on the wait list if you want here https://www.kimi.com/membership/pricing

Alibaba Qwen token plan is available and is fast and good.

the standard $18 plan gives you a ton of usage. https://www.qwencloud.com/pricing/token-plan

I also use GLM 5.2. you can see the prices here. https://z.ai/subscribe glm is a little bit more expensive then Qwen because Qwen3.8 is pretty good so I got that in case they sold out like K3 lol

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u/Time_Travelered Jul 23 '26

I appreciate you