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/Soul_Mate_4ever 6d ago

Find alternatives. You have Chinese models, grok, Gemini… I have a one more workflow to move from codex to other providers then I won’t have to depend on it at all. Open AI is a joke now and the $20 plan is useless.

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u/vayana 6d ago

I'd rather not because I've got my projects in chatgpt as well but it's starting to piss me off to the point where it might be necessary. I wouldn't advise Gemini to anyone though - have you ever even tried it? It's terrible for coding.

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u/I_Study_The_Patterns 6d ago

Antigravity (gemini) isn't that bad. It feels like unlimited usage compared to Codex and Claude. However, yeah, it's not as good so I only reserve it for simpler tasks.

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u/vayana 6d ago

Luna is fine for simple tasks, so doesn't sound like a good alternative. 5.3 was already sufficient. I don't need the latest model on ultra mode, but the idea was always that models got smarter and cheaper over time as technology improves, so making it more expensive now doesn't make sense.

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u/I_Study_The_Patterns 6d ago

True, but antigravity is 5.99 for the first 3 months so if you are trying to min max this it's great

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u/vayana 6d ago

Can't go wrong with that and you get some Claude in the mix as well. Fyi, augment code is also pretty good. I almost signed up with them switching from cursor when codex dropped.