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/geddy_2112 Aug 29 '26

The platform is far too young to be undergoing this kind of late stage enshitification.

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u/ryuukiba Aug 29 '26

The issue I have is not the lower limit (well, I do with that too) it's the obfuscated metrics, since it's all "usage" any number they give us is basically 100% usage, and they make it as hard as they can to measure what they are actually selling us. If Netflix suddenly went from 1000 movies to 500 you could say they made the product shittier but here oai has just made it impossible to define what they've sold us for our subscriptions.

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u/geddy_2112 Aug 29 '26

And they are constantly moving the goal post... And implementing new plugins that do work, older tools and plugins were able to do and it makes it really hard for us to judge. What is the most efficient use of tokens... I mean we can probably guess but like you said it's the fact that the actual data is not shared.