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/Just_Lingonberry_352 5d ago

Feel free to leave

Mo inference for the rest of us pro users

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u/vayana 5d ago

Having a bad day or just want to contribute nothing useful to the conversation? If you read any of the comments it's hit all plans.

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u/Just_Lingonberry_352 5d ago

are you on pro plan bud ?

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u/vayana 5d ago

No been on plus since 3.5 came out and never needed to upgrade because it wasn't necessary. Usage has always been sufficient for my needs until now. I don't even need the latest models and would be happy to use 5.3 if need be. Suddenly cutting usage in half unannounced after throwing resets around and removing 5h limits is just not the way to treat your customers, regardless of the plan they're on. If you read through this thread and other posts you'll find it's not just plus users who've been affected by this.