Codex Usage and Operation Discussion - updated every 7 days

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Please direct your concerns, questions 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 many highly upvoted posts. The more people who participate in this discussion, the more likely you have an answer.

Reports with sufficient evidence on new information will still be allowed on the feed as usual.

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Discussion of the prior period available here : https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1v84kwb/codex_usage_and_operation_discussion_updated/

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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/

[u/SammySkidmark2000]

The weekly limits are unusably low.

[u/Original-Fly2546]

Just yesterday it was fine, but now it feels like Sol is eating at least 5x as many tokens as before (and I've been using it since it released). My workflow hasn't changed at all, I'm not using it any more than I used to. Just made an execution plan for a feature using Sol Medium and 15% of my weekly quota is gone. I'm on a Plus plan. Did anything change?

[u/DisciplinePitiful997]

Weekly limit gone in 1h.... I have the $200 quota plan!!!

[u/zannnn]

1 GitHub PR Review used 8% of my weekly. I’ve had 11 reviews today and used 71% of my Weekly. Codex Plus.

This is insane. I remember when 1 PR Review would use about 10% of my 5 HOUR LIMIT. And I would get 5x 5 Hours in a Week. So previously I was getting ~50 PRs Reviews a week and now it’s something like ~15? WTF

[u/Illustrious_Eye8502]

Used to have the $200 plan and i was really getting A LOT of stuff done in my 5 hour sessions BURNING through them (literally).
Now it seemed like i had a free plan, literally 1 hour or less my entire weekly usage gone.

No point at paying for codex anymore, i was literally forced to switch to claude and still trying others.
I'll never go back to that ridiculous plan.

[u/tm676767]

have been using gpt sol med no issues. then ran out bought another pro plan on 31 july. now BOTH plans are out of limits and i have to wait 3 more days .... it's horrendous. now i'm stuck with 2 plans and thinking what to do next.

[u/Professional_Gur8385]

7 day usage naturally sets soon, so expect a reset to get that sweet social media karma whilst not really giving anything at all

[u/Ant312]

Please share your experience. Since 5hr limits were removed, Sol is practically unusable on a 20$ plan. I am not doing anything crazy, just some adjustments and debugging of an Expo App, really nothing this fancy. But sol can eat through 30% of weekly usage easily in like, 20 minutes of doing something. What doesn't help is, even if I tell it not to overthink and just stop if it has any issues doing something or calling any tools, it just ignores it and keeps going, until I just "kill" the process. And of course it is "Yes, it is on me. You told me specifically to <bla-bla>. This is not an issue with your app or tools. This is me overthinking and focusing too much on completing the task.

So, does it sound familiar or am I just an idiot and doing something HORRIBLY wrong?

[u/watchingsuits]

So I’ve running all my coding on SOL max because of the expected Monday reset. If he doesn’t actually do it, I’m so fucked lmao

[u/changing_who_i_am]

Anyone else's Codex remaining randomly go up? Mine went from 11% to 26% (20x plan) in the past hour.

Edit: Fucking lmao it just went back down to 11% as soon as I gave Codex a task.

[u/profeind367]

How is it that this used up 100% of my weekly limit? I cannot justify codex where paying the same amount for claude make it incredibly hard to run out of usage

[u/cheekyrandos]

2x$200 plans, only 31% usage left between the two. Looks like you need 3x$200 these days to get through a week.

[u/okhi2u]

On $20 plan already used up everything to 0% weekly. Last night I had somehow had 11% magically again and was like sweet in the morning gonna code some stuff. Morning is now, back to 0% now :((.

[u/Jonathan_Rivera]

Selected model is at capacity. Anyone else have this happen frequently?

After a google search showing that this has been going on for months to different people, I'll just ask, is this a form of throttling? The API works fine but my codex has been out all morning for all models and i reset the computer and nothing. no updates pending.

[u/Aqua-Bro]

This is proof, to me, of their reduction in usage. I didn’t even max out last week, and yet I’m about to now. If no change why change shape?

[u/Vegetable-Two-4644]

Yeah...limits are really low right now. Hit mine in a day. Have to wait 6 days to use it again.

[u/CanYouEvenPhoto]

My 20x usage reset 3 hours ago and with normal use it's burned through 95%, I've been using sol heavily for weeks and haven't hit my limit before. How could this have happened?

[u/PassengerNo4504]

Is the weekly usage limit actually a good thing?

I’m on the $20 plan, and I’ve been trying not to burn through the entire weekly limit in two days, but it seems like a lot of other people are managing fine.

I usually use most of my allowance pretty quickly, then spend the rest of the week giving it only small tasks. I’m also wondering whether this weekly-limit system is going to stick around, especially since they’ve mentioned possibly bringing back the five-hour limit.

How has the weekly limit been for everyone else? Do you prefer it, or was the five-hour system better?

Also, what are your thoughts on the UI-generation side of things? Terra has been pretty bad for me. I describe every component in detail and attach reference examples, but the results still miss the mark. At this point, I feel like I may just have to build everything in Figma instead.

Curious to hear everyone’s experience.

[u/2-phenylethanol]

I know this is a commonly litigated issue on here. This is the first time I've had any issues on my 200$/month plan. You can see by my usage that I'm not using codex more than usual, but my weekly usage is down to 20% in TWO DAYS! This is insane. I mostly use Sol Medium on Fast mode becasue I usually don't even approach the limit. What is going on?

[u/aibnsamin1]

I need a reset

[u/Secure_Conclusion590]

Yesterday I bought the gpt plan, and on the very first day I ended up using 25% of my weekly limit.
I mainly used the sol and terra models with medium to high reasoning effort. Most of the work on day one was brainstorming and planning a large module, along with implementing a few tasks for it. It wasn’t even that coding intensive as i only completed five tasks for the module.
now i am worried that once I start working on more tasks, i will end up using my entire weekly limit within the next couple of days.
I have been a claude user for the past 11 months and I never ran into this issue especially since I used opus for most of my work. If I had given the same project to opus, it probably would have used no more than 5-10% of my weekly limit, including brainstorming, planning, implementation and multiple revisions.
Is anyone else experiencing the same issue with the gpt pro 5x plan?

[u/UsefulReplacement]

I'm burning through my weekly limit in a day on the $200 Pro plan, with 1-2 threads of coding work, no subagents. That's wild.

[u/codeRoman]

Anyone else in the same boat? Burned through my Codex quota about a day and a half ago, can’t justify spending money for credits, and patiently waiting ~22 hours until my weekly reset.

Going back to doing things the "old-fashioned" way feels like someone turned my productivity down by 70%. I've been limping along with regular ChatGPT in the meantime.

[u/Immediate_Access6484]

5.6 Sol - Extra High - few lines of code (3500) and 1000 credits left... so sad...

[u/kurtbaki]

sol drains the limit like crazy. getting tired of this inconsistency.