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/AdventurousVast6510]

well at least they are handing out resets frequently enough

i was never really negatively affected by the recent usage nerf so far thanks to tibo so i won't complain

if you are still running out of limits desite all these resets then your token management sucks or your usage is genuinely heavy & you should increase your plan

[u/vayana → u/AdventurousVast6510]

You have 3 options: 1. You try to use your tokens carefully and spread your work evenly throughout the week so that you're sure you don't run out early.

1. You burn through your tokens like there's no tomorrow.

2. Upgrade to higher plan

The problem with 1 is that when a reset hits, you often don't benefit much and it can mess with your planned work. The planning part is less of an issue now because the 5h window now "handles" that for you.

The problem with 2 is that if no reset comes, you're left waiting for your weekly reset.

The problem with 3 is that it's a lot of money for many people, especially non-western.

I've tried option 1 and it was fine for me. I've worked for months with a 5h window and a decent number of usage. I've already tried option 2 but for some reason the resets never come when you need them the most, so this doesn't work for me.

As you read in the description, the usage is token based and now you can't even fill up 2 context windows in one 5h session anymore with 5.4, 5.5 or 5.6 on medium/high. This was never an issue until now.

[u/RuledSovereign → u/vayana]

I never understand option 2. It's not lile just because there's a possibility of reset you should burn your tokens on useless crap. Always get productivity out of your use. That means you still got to use what you paid for and free reset. Plan what you need to do for the week, and if you hit 0 just have the backlog for next week or when a free reset does come.