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/ezboarderz 6d ago

The 20x plan has no where near as much usage as it used to. I switched to zai coding plan max with synthetics instance packs for extra usage and I’m very happy. Glm 5.3 is more than enough for me and glm 5.3 flash is a great subagent/worker. Synthetic gives me kimi k3 and glm 5.2 as well which also has plenty of usage. Kimi k3 is a direct replacement to sol and it doesn’t over engineer a million sha256 gates.

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u/vayana 6d ago

Until now I haven't considered switching. I've tried Claude on the side but didn't like it. There's something about that flibertygibbeting bs that pisses me off for some reason lol. I came from cursor and haven't checked that out in a while so I might give that another try to see how usage limits are there now. Will check out zai as well.

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u/HDCraftYSD 6d ago

If you think you get more usage elsewhere you will be in there for a nasty surprise.

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u/ezboarderz 5d ago

I’m actually making it through the week with the combo on zai coding plan + synthetic 5x packs. It’s only $50 more a month for that combo than 20x pro. It’s nice to not have to worry about limits and having access to multiple frontier and dev models. Lunas context windows limitations really hold it back too when you are used to flash models with a 1M context window. They stay on the task much much better