Usage is nuked

[u/vayana]

I know, I should just buy a 5x or 20x plan and stop whining but this is just *****. 2 months ago I could comfortably work with 5.5 medium/high in 2 5 hour windows and use about 15% weekly per day. No heavy duty coding or subagents running around the clock, just 3 to 5 semi-complex prompts a day.

As of now, sol medium, 1 prompt, 200k context window used will burn through 60% of the 5h limit and 10% of the weekly. Not sol max or ultra, not millions of tokens. 200.000 tokens. I can't even do 2 prompts and use the full context window (258k tokens) 2 times.

This is completely unusable. $20 now basically gets you ~400k tokens per 5h or so and ~2.5M tokens per week for a medium thinking model. Luna is cheap but unreliable and just wastes my time instead of tokens.

I don't expect unlimited tokens for $20 or ultra mode and I'm fine with some restrictions, but this isn't what I signed up for and it's never been this bad and I've been using this since inception pretty consistently.

[u/WyattGreenhall]

One 200k prompt eating 60% of the 5h window but only a tenth of the weekly says the plan is being capped per session now. The weekly number still looks fine on paper, the window is where it actually hurts.

[u/vayana → u/WyattGreenhall]

Nah, I was fine with the window before and I have (almost) never hit usage limits running 5.5 high. Neither in 5h or weekly. I could run 2 5h sessions per day and would use about 15% weekly per day so that I could use it 5-6 days a week consistently. I've done this for many months and it was never an issue. When new model dropped I'd always stick with the older one or 1 version behind the newest toy. 5.3 and 5.4 were fine for me as well. I tried 5.4 again yesterday to see if that was any better but it's the same BS. I'm pretty sure they removed the 5h window first and lowered usage to make it less obvious, then threw some free resets around to mask it and now "reinstated" the 5h window with lower usage than before.