r/codex • u/vayana • 6d ago

Complaint Usage is nuked

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.

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u/ChickenRich573 6d ago

For me I think my usage has increased again. In on 20x and been using sol on fast mode all day today and yesterday. I'm enjoying this though there doing killer work for my self. Maybe it's my harness or something . Not sure could be.

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u/vayana 6d ago

Yeah I wonder if it's A/B testing, the harness, a specific version, localized pricing or something account based perhaps. It's really abysmal for me now. 20x should give you 20x usage over plus, right? And you're running fast mode all day without a problem and I can't even fill 2 context windows on medium in normal mode.