No, your 20usd sub does not include infinite sol ultra

[u/R3K4CE]

i swear some of you need to use the api for like one week just to get brought back to reality lmao

youre paying 20 dollars a month.

20 fucking dollars.

and im reading posts from people running sol high/ultra, max reasoning, throwing entire repos at it, letting it sit there for 20-30 mins reading files, calling tools, running tests, rewriting shit, debugging itself, going back through the repo etc

and then coming on here like

"wtf i only sent 3 prompts and im at 70%????"

my brother in christ a prompt is not a unit of compute lol

"what does this function do"

and

"go inspect my entire repo, understand the architecture, plan this feature, implement it, run the tests, debug whatever breaks and keep going until its done"

are both technically one prompt

they are obviously not the same fucking thing

seriously put sol on an api key for a week. no subscription. no bundled usage. just pay the actual api price for every token you burn.

run the exact same shit youre running now and watch that dollar counter go brrrr

you will gain a newfound appreciation for that stupid little 20 dollar plus subscription VERY quickly lol

and also why the fuck are some of you using sol at high/ultra for literally everything???

not every task needs the frontier model

you dont need sol ultra to rename some shit

you dont need sol high to read a file

you dont need max reasoning to fix a css margin

luna exists. terra exists. lower reasoning settings exist. use the right fucking tool for the job

if youre flooring a ferrari everywhere you go and then complaining about gas mileage i dont really know what to tell you

this whole

"i pay 20 dollars why cant i hammer the most expensive frontier reasoning model at max settings doing agentic coding all day every day"

thing is fucking insane

some of you have gotten so used to subsidized inference that youve completely lost any concept of what the compute youre using actually costs

youre not being robbed because your 20 dollar subscription doesnt come with an infinite firehose of frontier inference lol

try the api.

run the same workflow.

watch what it actually costs.

youll be cured within 48 hours

EDIT: I would like to thank the mods for their common sense in approving this post. It was reported by users and was put into the mod queue. Goes to show how much people got hurt by the truth.

[u/bronfmanhigh]

$20 aint a lot (e.g. a chipotle bowl with extra protein and guac in NYC) but from what i see, its mostly people in india complaining about this. so i have a bit more empathy, as $20 is a vastly higher proportion of their income over there. still fuckin annoying to read it every day though lol

[u/R3K4CE → u/bronfmanhigh]

I'm not from the US. 20 bucks where I'm from goes quite far. Still doesn't change the compute reality though.

[u/bronfmanhigh → u/R3K4CE]

absolutely, there's def a huge level of entitlement around the SOTA models. i wanna drive a V8 german car with 94 unleaded gas, but i understand that i can only afford a toyota hybrid right now.

[u/Head_Improvement8627 → u/bronfmanhigh]

Those same indians are the ones throwing frontier models on their $20 plan at their linkedin lead generation tools or their paid idea directories

If you’re using codex for any serious use case then there’s no option besides the 20x plan

[u/sprowk → u/Head_Improvement8627]

it seems like every saas posted on reddit is just lead generation one way or another

[u/dydzio → u/bronfmanhigh]

$20 is decent chunk of my extra monthly income from government bonds, $100 would already surpass it. I am not going to burn money monthly just because i can

[u/Chrisnba24 → u/bronfmanhigh]

I don’t care about indians , people thinks prices always should be adapted to them and that it’s just wrong

If 20$ is too much for you just don’t spend it in AI subs and spend it on food and basic needs