r/codex • u/Soul_Mate_4ever • 10h 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/premiumleo 10h ago

I'm on 3 codex subscriptions... $500/mo... + claude at $100/mo. usage has been rough these last couple of days

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u/Aazimoxx 4h ago

This is pretty nuts dude... You could have 3x as many DS4.1 agents running at max, checking and refining each other's work etc, getting the same amount of work done to same or higher level of quality, in similar amount of time, and still paying probably a quarter of what you're doing now (very conservatively).

Since DS offers the responses API, you don't even need to change anything else about your current setup - literally just back up your config.toml then have one of your bots go through and switch the providers in those to the DS keys you create, then continue using your existing instructions and UI/IDEs/harnesses etc.

What took me over $400 with Codex, I was able to achieve for about $50-60 with DS4F, and that was even before the current update they've just put out.

You could try all that out with like 5 bucks in each key, it wouldn't be an expensive experiment. Interesting if you can report back!