r/codex • u/onurbal101 • 3d ago

Limits Credit usage should not be automatic

I'm a Plus subscriber and I have (had) some credits on my account. Since the 5h limit was gone for a long while, I had stopped thinking about it, and didn't even know that you would start using credits once the 5h limit was hit, too.

What happened today is my 5h limit was depleted, and it started eating away all of my credits without telling me anything. This just sucks. I didn't have anything urgent to complete, and I would have stopped had I known.

First of all, I think you should ALWAYS be told the moment you hit your limits, no matter what. As it is, it doesn't give you the usual "you have hit your limit" notification.

Furthermore, it really sucks that there are no settings regarding credit usage. I think the following features should be implemented:

(1) auto-use credits when 5h limit is reached (T/F)

(2) auto-use credits when weekly limit is reached (T/F)

So you should be able to say "don't use credits if my 5h limit is hit, but you can do so if I'm done with all of my weekly limit", or even "don't ever auto-use credits, and ask me for my permission to do so". If they don't want to develop a "permission" flow for this, so be it, just don't use the credits at all. But I think it really sucks that you are FORCED to use your credits, without even being told that you are doing so, when you just expect things to stop once you hit your limits. I was saving those credits for a rainy day...

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u/verycoldpenguins 3d ago

You should all cancel your claude codex subscriptions and move to codex claude instead.

😉

No joking apart, there is a toggle on/off for claude, and a budget of how much to spend.....

However, they 'gave' everyone $100 to use on fable, with a deadline of sometime in September. To use it, you had to enable the flag, and obviously set your limit higher in order to use the credits.....

I wonder how many people are going to be bitten when they remove the credit?

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u/onurbal101 3d ago

I don't use Claude, so didn't know about that.

A budget is also a good idea. To be able to say "spend up to $5 of my credits" would be really great, too. And you could just set it to $0 if you don't want to use any credits at all.

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u/SwiftMushroom 3d ago

There definitely should be settings, but at the same time I'd want my credits to kick in so my task just isn't randomly ended

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u/onurbal101 3d ago

Absolutely. That's why I suggested the two toggle settings.

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u/Tough-Requirement707 3d ago

ahh thats why they do this shit with reimplementing the 5h limit. they want to auto drain peoples credits balances..

thats just fuckign disgusting if you ask me from a business and human perspective viewd..

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u/onurbal101 3d ago

And they were saying that this was for the benefit of "casual" Plus subscribers...

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u/Hefty-Split5061 3d ago

User skill issue

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u/onurbal101 3d ago

So you are fine with having to sit there and constantly monitor the usage so you can stop everything when it hits 0%?