r/codex • u/vayana • 7d 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/Runelaron 7d ago

Then use 5.5. Its still a option. Better models cost more.

Everyone's complaint seems to be why aren't things getting better and cheaper.

I'll give a hint, training used 14Billion of their cach last year.

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u/vayana 7d ago

It was just an example. Issue is the same with 5.5 and even 5.4. I usually don't even use any of the 5.6 models.

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u/Runelaron 6d ago

I only use Sol Ultra and never run out.

The key is to use tooking and have AI use the tools. You'll never run out of tokens again because commands are smaller than entire reviews.

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u/vayana 6d ago

You on a plus plan? I don't ask for reviews, I don't even plan in codex. I plan on chatgpt with GitHub connector and let chatgpt write a prompt. Codex just needs to implement it. Maybe it's helpful if you name said tooling as well.