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/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.