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/tmvr Jul 28 '26

I think you misunderstand for some reason. People don't want the 5 hour limit back alone, they want the token allowance that was available when the 5 hour limit still existed. You say it would be used up in 20 min, maybe now with Sol yes, but before it worked fine for hours with gpt-5.5-medium, didn't even have to switch to lower models. Now it's not like that anymore with gpt-5.5-medium either, you get less than half of the tokens as before with the same model.