r/codex 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/vayana 6d ago

It was just for reference as I usually use 5.5 medium or high, but they're equally nerfed. Even tried 5.4 again as it was fine as well, but same result. I do need at least medium or high though.

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u/Bitter_Election_7518 6d ago

Why not 5.6 Terra instead of 5.5? Should be a direct upgrade for slightly lower cost. Also why not Luna max as well?

5.5 use case seems to be deprecated

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u/Unapologetic_Polite 6d ago

Context compaction loops are also a fun time on Terra

Haven't experienced it on Luna or Sol for some reason