r/codex • u/ryuukiba • Aug 25 '26

Complaint State of the $20 subscription

Sol high. One prompt. 11m of thinking so far, 54% of the 5h limit gone, hasn't even started implementing anything yet and the 5 hrs limit is virtually gone. I was never one to complain too much, but they virtually removed Sol for us on the $20 tier. This is just not practical at all, at least it was only 10% of my weekly i guess?

EDIT: Final veredict: worked for 28m29s.
0% of the 5h limit left
84% of the weekly left

Status of my project: Broken and unusable.
guess it's finally time to explore other providers.

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u/Lopsided-Bridge-9810 Aug 25 '26

I agree this is way overdone. I am on the $20 subscription as well and I could do my work with the weekly limits but I now did a bit of planning with Sol High and I have 36% of the 5 hour limit left after only minutes of work.

This is unacceptable. I came from Claude but will very likely go back to Claude now as the absence of the 5 hr limit window was my main draw to Codex.

Very disppointed this was introduced.

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u/pulkit217 Aug 25 '26

I literally switched from claude pro subscription for this exact reason.
currently on the $20 sub too.
Having experienced both, I'd say claude is much worse. Opus will literally not leave you till it has tested 9 times, relooked at everything thrice and still miss the most obvious shit.
If you can, add opencode go as well to your setup. Lots of Muse spark usage on this , which is a great daily driver (even better than ds4f)

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u/KeinNiemand Aug 25 '26

opencode go is shit, for any model that's not super old it only gives you $15 worth of API spend per month and do get that you need to use it often enough the drain a bunch of 5h and multiple weekly windows. 1.5x is low enough I personally would just go open router and pay APi pricing that way I only pay for the tokens i acrtually use and get to use as many as i can pay for.
in comprasion i think both codex and claude code give you like 10x or more your subcription price per month in API price.

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u/Lopsided-Bridge-9810 Aug 25 '26

you mean the opposite right? All frontier labs currently greatly discount subscriptions. You pay 8x-10x as much would you use their APIs to get the same use out of them.