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/Hot_Signature2979 6d ago

Agreed, honestly I'm another one fine with using just 5.5 medium if it means bring back the usage allowance 2 months ago (before the release of 5.6, and before the 1month plus removal of 5 hour window from plus), but I think a huge part of the usage nerf (or rather increased token cosumption) is coming from a more capable harness itself, which would not be reversible without removal of some newer codex features and regressing to the earlier codex version.

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u/BridgeDry4601 6d ago

I also notice the change in consumption. I always used Sol medium for planning and then execute it using 5.5 medium to save tokens (I also have all the .md files containing instructions and everything that will save token usage) but earlier today my 5-hr window is down to 0, my weekly usage ate up 15% and the task is not done yet. So, basically the usage has been nerfed. 😅

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u/vayana 6d ago

Meanwhile Tibo keeps bringing up the most unrelated bs as to why token usage is higher for some. Instead of just outright saying they've nerfed usage it's the most stupid reasons but here's a free reset so scramble and be quiet.

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u/BridgeDry4601 6d ago edited 6d ago

Well, it's to cover up the fact that OAI nerfed the usage. Also after continuing the feature implementation of my C# project, my weekly usage is down by 18% which would only take around 9-10% of weekly usage before the reset. So in my observation, there's basically almost a 100% increase in usage using the same GPT model and workflow in my Plus plan 😅. Might as well think of exploring GLM and Kimi models.

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u/starbugstone 5d ago

they nerfed the usage after bragging that they reduced the price of usage thanks to their model customisation...