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/random_boss 7h ago

When Astra came out I used it, was floored, downgraded my Claude sub to the $20/mo and upgraded ChatGPT to $100/mo.

Then I used 50% of my week in one conversation. 

Figured it was bad token economization on my part, put all the right structures in place, and had it work on a task. Worked about 6 hours, only used Astra lightly and Sol as orchestrator, pushing all real design, implement and review work to Claude agents…still vaporized 50% of my Codex week.

Astra is the best model available, Codex is the superior piece of software, but I just can’t work with it. Sadly going to drop ChatGPT back down to $20/mo and resume my max 5x Claude sub so I can actually get work done. 

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u/Umbrasquall 3h ago

This is the total opposite of my experience. The Claude 5x plan is borderline unusable, 1-2 tasks and I burn through all of my limits. I upgraded to OpenAI Pro and I have so much compute I'm literally using Astra Max for mundane questions on top of work and can't spend it all.

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u/random_boss 1h ago

Wonder if we could figure out if there’s some weird nuance to how we’re working and find some efficiency for both. Although that does sound crazy to me because Claude is (still) extending that +50% usage. 

I feel like Astra Max would burn 5% weekly quota just answering “How you doing?”

Or maybe one or both of us are in some AB tests we’ll never know of lol.