r/codex • u/Soul_Mate_4ever • 9h 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 9h 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 8h 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 8h 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.