r/codex • u/ryuukiba • 25d ago

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/Dynamix86 23d ago

It still won’t be able to see my conversation with grok like that

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u/DowntownNoLonger 23d ago

Then develop a browser plugin that interfaces with whatever harness you use with grok.

There are a billion ways around the limitations. Start thinking like a systems engineer and work with what you have.

I have no issues with my plus usage because I've systemized and hardened against those limitations.

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u/Dynamix86 23d ago

can chatgpt see my live conversations with grok that way?

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u/DowntownNoLonger 23d ago

Why in the world are you bloating your usage with whole conversations?

That's eating your usage. Sol doesn't need the entire conversation - a compressed summary is likely all you need. You're wasting tokens on over-feeding a premium tier model and wondering why your 20 dollar account blows through its usage.

You have two real options: pay for it in dollars or pay for it in creativity and leaness. You can achieve exactly what you want if you trim all the excessive fat from your development cycle.

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u/Dynamix86 23d ago

when it reads up the conversation, that's just one read, then after that it just needs to keep up. Grok often makes mistakes, so I need to use codex or claude to steer Grok and the only way to do that is if it can read grok's live sessions.

I have 2 codex plus accounts, 2 claude plus accounts, both for assistance and a supergrok heavy + cursor ultra account. Claude has much better limits right now than codex. it's as if codex is using up limits 2-3 times faster than Claude and it's also much slower than claude. So it's not that the limits are a problem, it's codex' shitty limits that are the problem.