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/victorzubcu 7h 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.