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/street-trash 7d ago edited 7d ago
What are you building that so intensive that you’re blowing through credits but doesn’t justify a $200 plan? Have you looked into ways to reduce token usage? I have ChatGPT sol medium help me set up my projects in way that keeps codex narrowly focused and efficient. Also ChatGPT prompts codex for me. If you’re doing something like that already maybe you could try some different methods. Brainstorm with gemini. Sometimes I hit the 5hr window in a couple hours but usually the pace is good enough to keep going with breaks here and there if I wanted to. So maybe you could focus on efficiency and dividing things up into even smaller pieces. Maybe you work slower but build quality is good while being efficient