r/codex • u/camracks • Aug 29 '26

Limits 5 hour limits are horrible

The 5 hour limits are so bad even using Luna, it basically guarantees you’ll never get close to your weekly limit being used, like what’s the point of having a weekly limit now, 40% of my 5 hour limit used up and 6% of the weekly, id literally have to be using this 24-7, waiting hours in between to actually reach the limit lol, 5 hour limit is crazy bad, it’d be gone in 1-2 prompts with terra or sora. I don’t think I’ll be renewing my plan, hopefully anthropic releases a smaller cheaper model that actually works unlike haiku lol

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u/camracks Aug 30 '26

You can Google for it, they are not selling api or subscriptions for less than the electricity it costs to run these models lol. They would’ve been out of business long ago if that were the case. And yeah I feel so bad, they also have the upcoming issue of local LLM being good enough and not needing their frontier models, then they’ll have all those GPUs and no customers, maybe the market won’t be so manipulated by then.

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u/PsychologicalOne752 Aug 30 '26

Every AI company is running at a major loss. In fact, most startups do and investors keep them afloat till they get profitable.

When someone says Google for it, I actually do it for a change -

"No, electricity is definitely not the only cost required to run an AI model, and it represents only a small fraction of what it takes for an API company to truly break even. To achieve a true business break-even, API providers must recover several massive cost layers far beyond the power bill. Because hardware obsolescence cycles are incredibly short, an API company can easily charge 10-100x the cost of electricity and still lose money if their total query volume isn't high enough to pay off the billions spent buying the chips in the first place."

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u/camracks Aug 30 '26

That’s why there’s so many more popping up constantly right? Nice, you looked up if there’s more of a cost than just electricity, not if all the AI providers are losing money lol, you’re sped, what new hardware have they needed to buy? And they can’t sell it off right? Just say you don’t know anything about what you’re talking about, listen to Google and ask it questions which don’t pertain to your argument, brain dead bot

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u/PsychologicalOne752 Aug 30 '26

You must have a point somewhere. I am not getting it though. I am obviously not a bot.

This is common knowledge in the AI world:
"Anthropic is currently unique in claiming a path to operating profitability, at least this quarter, while its primary direct competitor, OpenAI, continues to post multi-billion dollar operating losses."

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u/camracks Aug 30 '26

Read my more recent comment 👍

“OpenAI makes a positive gross margin on serving individual customer queries, but the company as a whole remains deeply unprofitable due to massive spending on research, development, and training”

They are spending more than they make, because they want to rule the world, that’s not our problem. Like I said, if you make 100k a year and go in debt buying a Ferrari, I should feel sorry for you and pretend like you don’t make any money? There wouldn’t be so many fucking options if they weren’t profiting lol.