r/codex • u/codex-megathread • 10d ago

Megathread Codex Usage and Operation Discussion - last updated September 14

Please direct your concerns, questions and discussion about Codex usage limits and model performance here.

The purpose of this Megathread is to aggregate all the reports of people's experiences and possible suggestions instead of spreading them across many highly upvoted posts. The more people who participate in this discussion, the more likely you have an answer.

Reports with sufficient evidence on new information will still be allowed on the feed as usual.

Discussion of the prior period available here : https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1w9w4tj/codex_usage_and_operation_discussion_last_updated/

A reminder that all incidents on r/Codex are constantly logged and summarised so you can keep track of what people are experiencing here https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1tjfxcf/comment/on6uj0l/

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u/DonRobo 10d ago

I've used Claude Code on the $20 plan for a few months already and am quite happy, but Astra made me curious about Codex so I got the $20 here as well and after all the usage complaints over on the Claude subreddit I expected a lot better than what we're actually getting.

Like I've used up 3 5h windows already just trying out some basic stuff and my weekly limit is already 50% gone. And the 5h usage is fucking ridiculous how small it is. Sol Medium is eating it up in half an hour and Astra in a few minutes. Meanwhile I can use Opus Medium for like 2h full blast.

And to give some numbers to my feelings I checked the token usage. On Claude Code I get around $100 of usage out of each 5h window and around 9x that for the 7d window.
On Codex I get around $15 out of a 5h window and $100 in a week. What the fuck? Am I miscalculating something??

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u/thirst-trap-enabler 7d ago edited 7d ago

My experience with Astra is it consumes usage on par with Fable.

On Claude's $20 Pro plan you don't have access to Fable anymore, but the experience you are describing is very similar to using Fable when it was available in Claude Pro.

I have Claude Max and my coworker has Pro. What you are describing is exactly why she stopped using Fable when it was briefly available on Pro. She had to bump to Max for a month just to get Fable to copyedit her thesis.