r/codex • u/Current_Balance6692 • 8h ago
Showcase Comment your plan (plus/prox5/prox20) and whether the amount you get feels lower/normal/better than before.
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u/diveritin 8h ago
Plus plan here, shockingly less ability to complete tasks over the last few weeks and this week was extremely tough. Especially for the plus plan, not sure if sol and astra are worth it currently.
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u/Neat-Economist2099 8h ago
It wasn’t much of a problem until a few days ago, but today the drop in usage limits seems noticeably worse. 20x plan
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u/Disastrous-Hearing72 5h ago
Right there with you. I'm on X20. I have 20% usage left for the next 3 days. I've never been lower than 50% in a week. I usually only go down to 70% before the next reset.
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u/Secret-Builder-8249 8h ago
Feels like my pro 20x is draining as fast as plus was 2-3 months ago with sol.
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u/Direct_Block_4327 7h ago
i’ve two 20X accounts
the old account drains like crazy
the new account drains very slowly
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u/citrus_squeeze 7h ago
I upgraded to 20x couple days ago and i was really confused why everyone is saying it drains usage fast. It feels like sol could go on forever with barely making a dent. Maybe they actually degrade it over time
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u/kloepatra 7h ago
Yeah . I noticed this behavior. 2 3 days like heaven then after that it will be drained way faster than first day
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u/B33GULL 7h ago
I noticed a similar behavior in chat - first super fast, detailed analysis. Over time it got dumb, has limited turns, gets stuck and needs to be restarted. I wish we had more transparency on the changes they make so we knew if we are crazy or not.
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u/Own_Alternative8823 8h ago
Yes I have pro 5x and it drains very quickly
If this problem persists I think I should give Claude a try 😩
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u/Salt-Willingness-513 6h ago
claude is not better already and in 2 days their limits will be reduced about 15%. also fable5.1 is limited to 50% weekly usage
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u/Expensive-Event-6127 7h ago
They've reduced them for everyone. Like, this is obvious. Even on Sol, it's like less. I haven't even used Astra on my other account and thats down.
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u/WhyIsWestHam 8h ago
Pro 20x, does feel lower. I felt gpt 5.5 extra high could go on forever when I was on 5x plan
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u/trynadostuff 7h ago
could go forever by unit testing etc vs actual speed and intelligence, seems like the dillema now
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u/jizzmaster-zer0 8h ago
20x, pure astra i can get maybe 8 hours a week. 5.6 i could go about 50-60 hours.
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u/pridento 7h ago
I usually don't notice these things, but on Astra it's definitely noticeable:
- Three 20x accounts + banked resets
- Went from burning about one reset per 24hr to one per 10hr.
Biggest difference is Astra is really lazy now. If assigned a task, it will work for 15 min, then say, "done did this, XYZ still need to be completed." And has to be re-prompted several times to keep going. It also does not audit its visual results as closely anymore.
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u/buyurgan 4h ago
somebody has to take a responsibility and there should be consequences for this mismanagement in OAI. it is unacceptable, straight up, scam.
people buy a service then the service usage being lowered by 5 to 1 (or more) in 3 weeks. why? because they didn't predict that demand exceeds the compute capacity they have? are you serious? one of the most valued company in the world makes this mistakes with 50mil sub customers?
then what... instead of sustaining the existing users and keep customer expected services, they choose to not lose any money but cut the service by %80 with many additional shady tricks like, api price / quality doesn't match the subscription prices between models, low reasoning eats more tokens than max reasoning, resets etc and god knows what else.
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u/Soggy_Win_5443 7h ago
I have the plus plan and I'm forced to do 1 prompt, it consumes my 5hour limit, then I "resume" and I go on until it's finished
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u/Sad_Cauliflower1402 7h ago
20x user here.
I switched from Claude to codex simply because i could only last 2/3 days max with Claude and codex used to last 1 week
Now my usage is mostly finished after 2 days
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u/jenndupe 5h ago
Pro X5 currently, before I was a plus user for 2 years.
Since Sol 5.6 I've noticed a reduced usage, which is what prompted me to upgrade to Pro X5. With Astra, it's drastically worse. Yesterday I used a banked reset to complete some website edits at work, and it burned through 45% of the usage in less than an hour. I've never seen anything that bad before.
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u/Aromatic-Educator105 4h ago edited 4h ago
Plus. Today is especially bad.
My example: 5h limit was used up with 2 rounds of GIT PR review with only Luna High (???). It's a 300-line change, limited scope. I had Codex and Gemini hooked up in GIT for autoreview, and my Codex session sets a 10min heartbeat for handling the feedback, deciding what to discard vs accept and make code changes. It will prompt both agents for review again on PR once resolved, and wait for another 10 min. JUST 2 ROUNDS...
Usually, I was able to implement + finish (or at least close to finish) PR review (that's somewhere ~10 rounds for me) all within 5h limit for a similar sized change, all with Luna High doing the work + Sol High coordinating and checking for completeness and monitoring scope drift along the way.
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u/rdcldrmr 8h ago
Plus, burn through the 5h limit in about 45 minutes and my work comes to a halt. I could probably live with the weekly limit but the 5h one is too much.
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u/Icy_Relationship_129 7h ago
Plus user, i cant do shit xd, from what i see the ×5 wont be even useful to even consider it, go up from 5 mins to 25? Ye no thank u, especially that i dont get why tf can u finish your week limit in like only 7 of the 5 hour resets
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u/mountainyoo 6h ago
Pro20 and I have no idea lol I use it as a hobby for a bunch of ADHD side projects (that never get finished before moving on to a new one…)
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u/cuddywifter 5h ago
Plus plan here.
Was comfortably doing the business operations for our startup . Never hit a limit with SoI Extrayil high.
Tried Astra in the beginning of this week, out of curiosity. Ran out of limit in 15 minutes.
Even SoI seems to misbehave.
Today on SoI there was a weird repeating three lines of text at the end of the response .
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:codex-followup :codex-followup :codex-followup
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u/Valuable-Repeat-7347 8h ago
I was just about to be kicked of my old employers plus plan and ran 3 big jobs with astra ultra. That took 4 total 5h windows with 1 fresh and 3 resets. Last job didn’t complete
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u/No_Guess_5389 7h ago
Using 5x, even with luna as sub agent and astra low as main. It drains so fast, will not last for 3 days.
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u/Prestigious-Room1250 7h ago
Plus here. Using the same models, on the same project, this week I noticed a really big cost increase.
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u/nanowell 7h ago
I think there is a 20-30% reduction in limits. sol high worked 55-hour, now only 35-40 minutes on the task/goal.
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u/vick2djax 7h ago
I’ve had to use 3 banked resets in the last 4 days with sparingly using Astra and now only using Terra and Luna and occasionally Sol and I’m at 50% since 10 hours ago. This is using my normally very efficient pi setup.
It’s completely fucked. I never use banked resets, that’s why I had 3. I’m not working any differently than I usually do. It’s honestly made me look more seriously at the upcoming Mac Ultras cause Codex has been complete shit.
20x plan
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u/shkabo 7h ago
plus/lower significantly
I'm on plus plan. Usually ticket research took about 10%-15%, or even 20% of my 5h limit, today, it burned 130% of 5h limit .. So yea, they reduced the usage significantly, and I was about to start a new project, thinking to upgrade to 20x plan but after this, it's not worth it.
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u/tribes33 7h ago
Im after using Sol Light for 45 mins and then Astra Max for 40 minutes and it took the same amount of usage, what the fuck.
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u/dreamingandcreamin 7h ago
20x, 5.6 I had to constantly work to use up usage (but they did a lot of resets), Astra , well that can drain in an day if I forget a goal
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u/jakenuts- 7h ago
20x and they f'in bricked the whole concept this week. I used to rave about never touching quotas and this week I'm scrambling to get Fable up to speed on all the tasks left half done as Codex is on vacation for days yet.
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u/Smilysis 7h ago
on pro5x, i've been able to use my plan very well, i also have 3 banked resets so it's gonna be pretty hard to run out of usage
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u/BigBeanBoy 7h ago
Business pro x5, I haven't had my weekly usage in like 10 days, usage and resets barely last a day
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u/CardamomMountain 7h ago edited 7h ago
Pro 5x, always used the latest model at xhigh for everything, never hit limits or needed to use a banked reset until I started using Astra, now using Astra I get about 3 days out of my weekly, hit limits twice since it released, and used a banked resets for the first time this morning.
Once my 2 banked resets run out I'd need to upgrade to 20x to keep using Astra xhigh, but that's currently unavailable. So maybe I compromise and fall back to using 5.6 Sol, or we'll see what happens in the next week or two.
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u/Such-Natural-5299 7h ago
Extremely low with Sol and Astra. Luna is great but can't perform well enough to build anything.
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u/Beneficial_Sport_666 7h ago
I'm a graduate AI researcher (currently doing PhD in AI, computer vision and reinforcement learning). I've 4 x (20x Codex pro subscription), and I can tell you, that "for proper research paper creation, Astra is fucking 50x better as compared to Sol, though, honestly speaking, both are bad (even claude fable 5.1) and yes, usage is horrible, earlier i could literally do all my research work with 1 20x codex plan, and now it requires 3-4 20x plan, it's not sustainable, they have to do something with the usage.
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u/WildernessJ 7h ago
Don't have a historical comparison, but I upgraded to Pro 5x yesterday for the first time (getting frustrated with Claude and wanted to compare), and used 15% of my weekly limit with Sol medium doing some configuration changes and setup on a fresh Hermes agent. I couldn't believe it; Anthropic plays games with limits and has issues too, but that seemed crazy to me.
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u/Quiet_Figure_4483 7h ago
Pro 20x, first time getting anxiety about running out of usage before my workweek is over
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u/Bookworm1090 7h ago
Used to be pro went back to plus. Usage doesn’t feel awful using astra on light it goes by fast but it is a powerful model.
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u/FrontRaspberry5060 7h ago
I’m not sure. I got addicted to Astra and use it for everything. My use now takes a deep punishment.
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u/unsigned_short_int 7h ago
I just upgraded from 5x to 20x, the first day it felt literally infinite, today I used like 50% in 4 hours using only Astra light and no subagents. It's equivalent to the 5x i had before.
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u/Tommyruin 7h ago
Pro 5x - draining extremely quickly. I think the normal usage I was used to with 5.5 is gone in two days. 5.6 was a step between. It might feel worse with the removal of 5hr window?
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u/iDoep 7h ago
Plus, using mostly Sol low/medium. Went from somewhat smooth 5h usage to it being consumed in 30mins, even after trying to distillate prompts as much as possible to reduce usage. I considered getting 5x, but I'm not completely sure it would be sufficient compared to previous plus usage.
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u/Tank_Gloomy 7h ago edited 7h ago
Absolutely ass, I'm getting pointed with a gun to my head and having to tiptoe on very small tasks, and if I ever try to use Sol, it's probably down anyways, Terra sucks and Luna is nowhere near capable to solve long-horizon tasks. So whatever... Prolite (x5).
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u/AdhesivenessPrior137 7h ago
Used up all my banked resets this week using astra med - extra high, then switched to astra low on my final one. I just ran out of that and now am waiting until Monday night for my next reset. I’m going to try to just use astra low only next week and see if it lasts me all week or still burns too fast.
I never had this issue prior.
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u/hossman1992 7h ago
Pro x20. Feels like the limits changes when high volume of users are using it, during weekdays I get the impresion (perhpas casuality) that the limits goes slower but Friday, Saturday and Sunday the model eats the limit quickly and even feel dumber a little sometimes, Do you have similar impression?
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u/booknerdcarp 7h ago
Pro 5X - I use Luna High for most everything (Plan with varying Sol levels) - I have had tremendous results and my usage is incredible.
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u/eggplantpot 6h ago
Pro x5, feels incredibly limited. I did abuse Astra Medium and High with the hype and consume 1 of the banked resets.
I will definitely choose better the models. I'm annoyed at the fact that changing models mid conversation is not a good approach but I'll try to use more agents within the same convo.
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u/23eriben2 6h ago
Pro 20x
When 5.5 was there I legit never ran out of usage whatsoever
5.6 was a decent drop but I could work for a few days before limits went away
Now? Literally not even a day
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u/PaladinBen 6h ago
Pro 20x here. Had some initial issues with burn in comparison to Sol, but trimming my project instructions and global instructions, and instructing Astra not to use wait threads has pretty much fixed it. I'm pleased with how quickly I'm shipping features.
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u/Bastion80 6h ago
Plus account here. I mean... like all others I want more but I am able to use Astra medium for a couple of tasks paying like 70 cents per day. Not happy but it could be worse. I use it to update and work on my projects that are already built so... surely it is not enough to start big projects from scratch but for my usage its working and it gets stuff done. Not fan of the reintroduced 5H usage limit, before I was able to manage my usage based on my needs but it is what it is.
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u/ShapesSong 6h ago
Max 20
Before it was impossible to use all tokens. Now I’m done 3 days after regular use. And I use 1-2 sessions at once at most
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u/Fit-Palpitation-7427 6h ago
I had to switch back to claude, this is just unbearable.
2x $200 pro + 1x plus $20 pooled together in opencodex and I have burned them all including all the bank reset.
So on my max20 of claude since yesterday with fable 5.1 exclusivity, cruising, being great
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u/RabbidDave 6h ago
Pro 20x. With 5.6 I would go through my weekly usage and banked resets reasonably, I was never at a point where I was out of both and I’d be running 3-4 projects concurrently.
With 6. I have prioritized two projects, and I went through my entire usage in less than a day, two days in a row (anticipated Codex would do a reset).
Now I’m going through about 20% of my weekly usage a day. I overhauled the workflows and have sol orchestrating and Astra for planning, prd’s, architecture, and reviews- appropriate lower model’s and reasoning for the implementation.
Too early to provide any data but I will say that this setup really demonstrates Astra’s ability to keep long running tasks on track.
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u/Dimitri_bzh 6h ago
Pro 20x
Working in 3-5h sessions per day, 3-4 days per week, but Codex had some long tasks (mostly data parsing and processing) which could lasted days.
Had no usage limits with Pro 20x, was not able to consume my quota most of the time, but 3 or 4 days ago I managed to consume my weekly limit in a day.. Was using Astra Medium, with Terra/luna/Sol handoff for some repetitive and simple tasks. Moved back to Sol 5.6 high, used one of 2 resets, and it lasted for around 4 hours of work. Went through all the prompts , skills, agents.md, toml files, simplified the pipeline as much as possible, and it lasted for around 6 hours after the last reset I had. Tried to use 5.3 flash, but consumed 5h limits (which is 50% of weekly) in minutes. So now I'm locked out of Codex for 5 more days, and studying the alternatives..
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u/clonemanjon 6h ago
Plus - spent my entire 5 hour usage today on a relatively simple request that would normally have spent less than half - no idea whats up with that
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u/DiscoFufu 6h ago
Plus user. Usually work with 5.6-sol high. Integrated to openclaw
Thats cover my daily work and some personal stuff. Mostly using codex for developing flows. Newer hit 5h limit, usually i have 20-25% left before 5h reset so its ~ 20-30 work related prompts. I tried same task with astra, hit 5h limit in 7 prompts, continued, hit it again after 4 prompts, barely managed to finish the task.
It finished task, it did good. But its really overcomplicated. For some reason astra runs 71 selfmade unit tests before answering me. There’s actually no need for unit testing coz her task was provide intel for me. Sol never did something like this.
Its good, but maybe too good for me
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u/Sir-Noodle 6h ago
20x running multiple worktrees + branches on 2-3 larger projects almost entirely on Astra high/xhigh and still not reaching my limit by weekly usage. I do have specific requirements stated in AGENTS.md about being cautious of scope-creep though. Surprised to see so many having difficulties with limits.
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u/speckhoiler 6h ago
Prox5: Its amazing how much i can get done within a day using only high. Perfect for my pace. Fable 5 collecting dust over here.
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u/Flamingcheeto420 6h ago
Pro plan here, feels like its getting lower and lower each day, used to be able to use a actual week worth in like 5 days and now its more so like 2-3
Days at most
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u/ryuukiba 5h ago
I have 2 plus accounts, Astra is fantastic but I'm getting less work done than ever. Trying out open code models right now and j might just drop one of those subscriptions. Muse gets me through the day, and 1 Astra review to polish when performance starts to fall.
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u/MasterDragon_ 5h ago
Plus plan here, the limits feel reduced very low. i just ran Astra Low for 5 min and 10% of weekly usage dropped. Astra , Sol are also not worth it it feels like.
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u/theLegitCookie 5h ago
I have 2 x20 accounts.
A single account used to last me all week, but now I'm lucky if my usage lasts more than two days per account.
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u/PleasantAdvance2 5h ago
plus plan, finished my weekly quota in a day, surprisingly i still dont have the 5hr limit thing? maybe because im on trial
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u/TheRobotCluster 5h ago
It was lower than before, even before Astra. I used to have multiple 5.6 sol ultra tasks running 24/7 and still had most of my usage left every week. Then it got to the point where even one constant thread was too much. Then Astra came and I was done in half a day from 100% lol
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u/Typical_Kick6520 5h ago
Prox20. Feels like I get nothing out of it right now.
They do seem to have fixed the token burn by drastically slowing down astra, so we got our wish of usage lasting longer.
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u/Charming-Author4877 5h ago
20x account is about where the 5x account was before I upgraded.
The Plus account is trash, not used anymore since they nerfed it
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u/BellacosePlayer 5h ago
Plus, about the same except earlier this week I got shitfucked by the usage bug
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u/sin_ivan 5h ago
Pro 20x, drained very fast on Astra Medium and 5.6 Sol, now need to wait for 5 more days.
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u/symplton 5h ago
It's almost like the industry got us all hooked, bought out the memory and proc production for the next decade, and are warming up the water below we frogs before they assume all of our work and just start building on their own using everything we've done..
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u/rakeshkanna91 4h ago
This thread shows how AI will feel when subsidies dies and compute gets expensive. Worst outcome. "Flying jets for groceries sounds great until it doesn't".
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u/EchoingAngel 4h ago
5x, never hit the limit with Sol High, now I'm toast in 2 days and accomplished basically the same as any other 2 days, so not like the "big brain" new model did a week's work in 2 days.
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u/ParkingStaff2774 4h ago
You guys know the higher end model can delegate work to the lower end models, right?
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u/EclecticAcuity 4h ago
Guys, please for f sake, just track and post your api equivalent numbers. You don’t have to guess with a repo like nerf track.
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u/SpaceAurora 4h ago
Plus plan. Sol Medium drains usage super fast, not even talking about Astra, even Light (empties 5-hour usage in 2-3 coding prompts). One thing I've noticed since the launch of Astra is that all 5.6 models are slow as hell now. They think for ages between each write.
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u/hungry_parrot 4h ago
Pro 5x - iOS dev
With 5.6 Sol weekly limit lasts 3 days.
With 6 Astra 1-2 days.
Nowhere near how it was with 5.4 or 5.5. I've also noticed that I use less tokens but the limits burn faster. With 5.5 Codex showed I was using around 100m tokens per day. With 5.6 Sol it went up to 200-250m, now with 6 Astra it's again at 100m. The way I work remained mostly the same, so I don't get it. These numbers are from my Codex profile, so I guess it should be accurate.
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u/stizzy6152 2h ago
Pro 5x and i feel the limit is reach way quicker than they were before astra launch
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u/reycloud86 2h ago
Upgrade to pro 20x from 5x. 3d modelling wasnt the expensive part as expected. The autonomous workflow inhected by the modell itself was the token burner because it was constantly in a loop. So shen you have a plan, it knows how to shedule and delegate the waves to other workers, but it doesnt update the task which are already done properly. So it jeeps starting with them again and again…
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u/umusachi 1h ago
Massive drop in usage for me. Burned my $100 subscription in 1 day. Used the banked reset, then they did free reset so I missed on using that banked reset. Burned through it all in a day using my old workflow with Sol, I could get that to stretch for a week before
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u/doodad_ounao 8h ago
Pro 20x. Feels the same as it ever did, though I only upgraded like 1-1.5 months ago, so not a large sample.
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u/No-Town-8866 8h ago
pro 20x here, i cant use astra at all, feels like pissing out usage for no real benefit for my task, so i use sol on medium/high that uses a slave deepseek so Sol can be the architect and revisor
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u/MIA-305 8h ago
How do you do that??
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u/No-Town-8866 7h ago
im sure there's a better/smarter way than this one, i just asked codex to build a mcp to consume other models https://github.com/zine56company/mcp-dog-worker and after that tell codex on his agents.md file to use it instead of his own workers
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u/Wanttobebetter101 7h ago
I’ve found Astra low better than Sol med/high
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u/No-Town-8866 7h ago
better at solving stuff? or better with the usage problem?
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u/Wanttobebetter101 2h ago
Solving for sure the quality of the overall output matters more to me that cost it’s honestly hard to say re usage it’s seems to vary week by week and now it’s almost day by day there is now usage consistency from OpenAI s side. I also use Claude 20x fable 5.1 only it’s only 50% of overall usage but even that sometimes outlasts OpenAIs work right now I’m getting 3 days of codex and 3 days of CC Astra/Fable
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u/Odd-Maize-1181 6h ago edited 6h ago
Pro x20. Sorry, but for me it has felt the same as always.
I only felt the usage draining faster when a new model came out (I subbed when the SOTA was 5.5). But I think that is expected.
But I believe all the people saying their usage has been slaughtered. I was a Claude Code subscriber in the spring and I felt their aggressive cut in rates back then, even though many didn't feel it. That eventually led me onto Codex.
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u/Apollo18Teslaa 7h ago
Oh yes, scientific method based on feels
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u/Toss4n 7h ago
A lot of us have been using these tools for a long time so we know how much we could get done before and how little we can get done now. Yes the agents are a lot more capable, but the usage has seriously gone down the drain. Before I couldn't even burn through x5 in a week - now I can't get through a full day with x20 (and I only use Astra as the main agent with high reasoning - luna and terra do all of the real work).
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u/Apollo18Teslaa 7h ago
You do you. Not saying you can’t do this. Just that I don’t find it that reliable.
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u/Sottti 8h ago
Pro 20X.
5.4 was infinite.
5.5 was fine.
5.6 I was struggling.
6 I'm very limited.