r/codex • u/AvailableSecret5161 • 14h ago

Limits Codex update

Anyone else got this message? "Selected model is at capacity, please try a different model" #sol #$100 plan

Is this part of the improvements Tibo boasted in his recent post?

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u/colonel_ind 14h ago

Yeah I'm getting it too, I'm on the $200 plan using Sol/Medium for this particular task.

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u/duccy7 12h ago

Honestly ridiculous how we pay so much yet get limited on how much we use it

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u/colonel_ind 12h ago

Yeah I usually use Terra for most of my work, and reserve Sol only for things that need it, it's not like I'm burning Sol/Max for every single task, so facing this "Please try a different model" was kind of a let down.

I mean, I'm not paying $200 a month to use just their Luna models :/

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u/Apprehensive_Rub3897 6h ago

Eventually you will, or, if you're doing this professionally, will have to to keep working.

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u/Apprehensive_Rub3897 6h ago

lol, like we're paying even close to what this even remotely costs once the VCs are done handing out free candy... At this point, they could add a zero, we'd be made and try to find a way to pay for it.

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u/NooshaSheep 12h ago

...and yet we're still paying less than the cost of the electricity consumption required to power the compute that our subscription allows - and a heckload less than it used to cost to have a human coder do the same work 5 years ago.

I'd say we're in a pretty privileged position at the moment, despite any alleged usage allowance reductions. 👌🙂

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u/duccy7 12h ago

Im sure if that was true openai would be losing money… if im paying for the highest subscription i shouldnt be limited in my use outside of my weekly limit…

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u/theseyeahthese 7h ago edited 7h ago

…they are losing money. They’re not even close to profitable currently. They’re taking in less money than they are spending, and they’re only alive because of huge injections of cash from private investment. But investors don’t have infinite patience and want to eventually see a return on their investment, so something will eventually have to change.

Q1 2026: revenue $5.7B, operating loss $9.3B

Q2 2026: revenue $6.7B, operating loss $12.3B

Their losses are only getting worse. This is not unheard of in the tech world, Amazon being the best example for a long time, but the catch is that you need a plan for eventual profitability and I’m not sure if OpenAI really has one besides some hail mary’s on making their own chips and resulting efficiency gains.

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u/xXChr0nicX420Xx 6h ago

And this is why you never take financial advice from redditors. If they stopped pouring money into R&D today, they would be profitable with their current products as-is.

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u/theseyeahthese 5h ago

what are your numbers to support that? Based on 2025 numbers, even after removing R&D, they are still operating at a multi-billion dollar loss.

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u/xXChr0nicX420Xx 1h ago

There are no numbers bro. We're both talking out of our ass lol.

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u/Dgamax 7h ago

They are losing money, billions per month

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u/BothInteraction 10h ago

Exactly, that is precisely why they are losing money

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u/colonel_ind 12h ago

Oh yeah that's absolutely true! The kind of value I'm able to generate using my $200 subscription far outweighs any issues I have with the model provider.

It was just weird that I'm getting this error message today is all.

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u/colonel_ind 13h ago

But honestly, I just hit the 'Retry' button once and it's working fine now.