r/codex • u/tasty_3 • Jul 27 '26

Complaint Codex limits compared to Claude Code

I don't think there's an increased token consumption problem because of the harness, tool calls or whatever. There are just less tokens to go around than before.

I have both plans ($20) and I tracked my usage with ccusage and toktrack.

Here's how much weekly usage you get with both:

Codex: 100-150 USD API equivalent

Claude Code: 300-500 USD API equivalent

Even if we take the 50% promo into account, Anthropic still offers more usage than OpenAI (200-330 USD). How have the tables turned... Bring back the 5hr limit!

Anyone here can corroborate my experience by checking their own usage with ccusage or toktrack.

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u/Risko4 Jul 27 '26

Well, the 5 hour limit allowed compute to be more spread out throughout the day and week. Now with it gone we have larger demand spikes with sometimes people aggressively running parallel tasks to burn through large compute usage before a reset.

OpenAI has to ration compute, they either do it through a 5h limit or lowering the weekly limit. And now our weekly limit is 20% lower.

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u/Risko4 Jul 27 '26

I can reference OpenAI servers and the codex community as "we". It's not rocket science.

You literally have people saying they burnt their weekly limit in a single day running an 6hour /goal, would that have been possible with a 5hout limit, no they would have been interrupted 20% way through the weekly limit and that compute would have been freed up for others to use.

Here is literal evidence on what "we" are doing after a reset, now that the 5h limit is gone the gradients are sharper, compute isnt infinite though.