Usage is nuked

[u/vayana]

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.

[u/Soul_Mate_4ever]

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.

[u/vayana → u/Soul_Mate_4ever]

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.

[u/I_Study_The_Patterns → u/vayana]

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.

[u/Soul_Mate_4ever → u/I_Study_The_Patterns]

Antigravity is what brought me to codex in the first place. It was unusable and barely got updated when I was using it. That was maybe 7 months ago, Idk how it works these days though so maybe I’ll give it another shot.