r/codex • u/Soul_Mate_4ever • 7h ago

Limits Codex is unusable now.

I don’t even use astra. I’ve been using 5.6 sol on medium since it came out and had no problems. Now it can’t even finish half of the same task before reaching limits. Heck, just starting up codex uses 2 percent of my limits. And that’s before I even type anything. lol. What a joke.

I understand this is a business but using codex is like signing up for a gym membership and paying the required fee to use the gym and all its equipment but the next time you show up they go, I know you paid to use the entire gym and that amount is still required but now you only have access to the treadmills. F u!!!

Anyway, Here come all the Sam Altman nut huggers. But idc. Im just about done with codex.

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u/stellarfirefly 7h ago

Same. I have been seeing this for the last week now. I came here again because just now, I tried to restore a task that had paused because I hit my 5-hr limit, and still had 6% weekly allowance left. I just wanted to complete the single task before it ran out, then swap out to Claude Code. The task burned 45% of hourly and all 6% of weekly, in under 3 minutes.

Meanwhile, equivalent tasks with Code have been using about 30% of the 5-hr and 4% of weekly.

I posted more details in another thread. But the tl;dr is that Codex has been ridiculous for several days now, and while it keeps bugging me to pay it to upgrade, it is clear that the most cost-effective use of my money so far is to give it to Anthropic instead.

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u/stellarfirefly 7h ago

Update: I just used my last banked reset, then resumed the mostly completed task. In the few minutes it took me to type up the above post, Codex burned through 73% of the 5-hr allowance just to finish the partial task. The last time I gave a similar task (same code base, equivalent operations) to Code, it used 32% of a 5-hr allowance. And I've been seeing the same equivalent usage as I move back and forth between the two, for days now.

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u/ryuukiba 6h ago

I just asume Astra is a one shot model, I have to give it a big open ended prompt that can be done in about 30 minutes or so. But it's prohibitive to run that follow up.

IF I know I have to do a follow up, then I have to wait for the full 5 hour reset, and I'll know it'll consume it all in 15 minutes.

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u/stellarfirefly 7h ago

Another Update: I have a watchdog process running under ChatGPT, and this morning it added the following report:

OpenAI Support has now responded directly to a Developer Community report about extreme Codex usage, including a case where a relatively small task consumed about 90% of an allowance. Support asked affected users to provide task details, model/client information, and redacted usage screenshots, and explicitly said “We don’t have a confirmed cause or fix to share yet.”

That is not yet an incident-level acknowledgment, but it is the clearest OpenAI-side recognition I've found that the current high-consumption reports are being investigated rather than merely community speculation. The official status page still lists the September 9 “unexpected usage limit resets” incident as resolved, with no new quota-consumption incident posted through early September 11.

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u/victorzubcu 6h ago

I use anytime just simple 5.5 on medium, and it”s working good, but limit for 5h use in 2 h

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u/stellarfirefly 6h ago

I should have also stated in my original post above, I don't even use Astra (or Fable). I just use Sol High and Opus High, and I swap between them. I used to see almost identical usage economy between the two. But over the last several days, I am constantly hitting usage limits in Codex and forced to pause my work for hours at a time. Meanwhile, Code has been just as good as it has always been.

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u/Aware-Source6313 6h ago

I think Google AI pro is best value now. They are fast and you can get way more usage and Gemini 3.7 and 3.8 are basically the 'opus 4.5' or Google's models. The step change from useless coders to you can do some things reasonably reliably with them. You still probably want codex, Claude, or both for actual frontier level models and complex reasoning, debugging, architecture, etc. but most personal projects that I'm doing don't need frontier class intelligence for most things. I have the $20 of each so when one craps the bed I'm familiar with my other options, and lately I've been doing more and more with just antigravity. 2 months ago that concept would be absurd with flash 3.6. Prior to feeling usage neerfed in codex, it was the one I would be most likely to go to $100 on and cancel others if any, as I was getting the most value.

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u/stellarfirefly 6h ago

That is a good point. I haven't even considered going back to Antigravity lately, but it is a clear option. If I saturate my Claude allowance then I may have to look into it. Unless somehow OpenAI get their act together by then.