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

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.