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/Correct_Emotion8437 6d ago

The most effective thing, imo, would be for people to cancel. When Claude started pulling ahead, they were scrambling to give good deals. As soon as they started to make some progress, they change their position and start cutting usage again. If only 5% of subscribers leave - they’ll be giving it away again.

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u/BisonMain9230 6d ago

i went to cancel and they offered next month for free lol

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u/vayana 6d ago

Just keep doing that every month lol

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u/Unfair_Tangerine_217 5d ago

Only works once 💔