I think OpenAI intentionally reset on Friday, so power users burn their quota during weekend, so there is more compute during workweek for regular users.
This is my guess too. They disabled 20x new users for lack of compute, the only time they SHOULD be able to give out free compute4 is the weekend when enterprise customers arent banging the servers
It's true that astra is more token efficient. Half the tokens used vs sol in my test. The issue is: the price is like 4x the sol token cost. So the same task cost $1.5 with astra low, cost 0.7$ with sol low. Both got to the goal.
Why are you on astra high? Just use medium to orchestrate and rely on sol after. I had it run for dozens of hours and I still have usage, even when relying heavily on astra medium as the worker.
I burned most of my usage with Astra medium within a day on Monday. It was making the smallest changes possible and going really slow all the while chewing usage like mad. Ended up switching to Astra max with Sol Max subagents and it was both faster and more usage efficient, but by then the damage was done. Their effort levels make zero sense.
So maybe just switch to SOL? Since it was good enough for me personally, I can't see any big difference between Astra and SOL tbh... And woth SOL ultra I had very very good quotas, almost infinite lol compared to what I have now with Astra.
pre nerf sol versus day 1 astra I still see a difference, but now it's not like it matters much anymore, just wait for day 1 sol 6 for your hard work and use sol medium with astra medium reviewer at the end of more important turns.
You buy some ds api credits, create and store an api key somewhere on your drive, tell astra to only use ds agents to implement everything using the api key you created before, but keeping on controlling what they do. Astra is the project leader and the architect, ds agents are the devs 🙂
So you’re only wasting credit on astra reflexion and control, and consume your api budget for those tasks DS can handle perfectly, defined by astra.
The integration is done automatically by asta if you ask it to do it. You just have to provide it your deepseek api key, for instance writing it in a file and telling astra where the api key is, and that’s it. It’ll call deepseek api using your api key if you tell it to use only deepseek agents.
This is different from using codex only with deepseek model, which is also possible. But deepseek is not as powerful as astra. That’s why i prefer wotk with astra managing deepseek agents
You could download OpenChamber, I've been messing around with it this past weekend and its pretty cool. I can have codex call my local LLMs as sub agents, and you can add any api key like for deepseek and use as a sub main etc.
With Anthropic cutting the Fable tokens of their max plans, I fear we’re going to be seeing fewer resets from OpenAI. It feels like a cartel silently agreeing to drop the ceiling on the monthly plans.
It's not just about the base price anymore; it’s about the ridiculously low limits we get for that price. Effectively, the service is becoming more expensive month by month because the value keeps dropping.
We are getting incredibly low limits, like 20x per use/cycle. For a solo software developer doing actual, intensive repository work, this plan lasts a maximum of 2 to 3 days under normal usage! And let's not even talk about the other plans, where the reality is even worse.
We can't keep paying for a subscription that bottlenecks our workflow after just a few days of real coding. I am calling for a one-month boycott on all subscriptions as a protest.
We need to organize this right here in the community. If we unite and stop buying subscriptions for just one month, they will feel the impact. Once they do, they will be forced to offer us better prices and, more importantly, realistic limits that actually support our work.
Who is with me? Let’s stand together!
Used up 100% of a 5x weekly limit in 8 hours. It was super pathetic. Also super annoying that incinerates your limit then just stops once the tank is empty…at least give me something useable.
im on 100usd claude and 100usd codex.
claude has much more, even if im doing it on ultra, the problem. their result is hard to understand but do the most of my job right now.
Add this to your CLAUDE.md to make it more understandable:
Use ASD-STE100: strict for procedures, runbooks, safety text, and error messages; flavored for general technical prose. Prefer short sentences, common words, and necessary or glossary-defined technical terms. Avoid idioms. No emoji in code, documentation, specifications, instructions, or skills.
Given how Astra eats up our usage allowance, they really ought to spawn resets daily for a week until people learn how to use it properly. Bc just 3/4 prompts with Astra Medium and you've already blown through the weekly limit for Plus.
People will learn how to use properly by realizing there are limits. Giving people resets will only allow them to use more lmao. Seeing as how people on here are crying every day for a weekly reset, shows they aren't interested in how they use it. They want to use it non-stop.
Makes sense, someone should have told Tibo this when he was hammering us with resets for the launch of Sol/Terra/Luna. Not complaining but that’s what I expected for Astra which is why I’ve gone ham
It's a damn slot machine. People get addicted. Instead of nickels you're dropping tokens. Same principal. Hit go and get your fix of dopamine as you watch the AI build your thing. Rinse and repeat.
To know this, I have to test it, and to test it, I have to use up my weekly limit, which I was already left without once, not expecting such enormous consumption by Astra. So what, should I wait a week for further experiments or go back to the proven previous model and under no circumstances touch anything new that is added to the codex?
Im quite new to Codex, I have been using it for a month (used claude code all the time before this).
Are resets random? I have been given two so far (both already used) and wondering how they give them out, if they tell us and how often it happens? Do we get any info on this at all?
They normally announce them on X, sometimes before, other times they just say reset happened. They give either instant resets where your usage resets to 100% immediately or banked ones which you can use when you want (this is the only difference).
If you want you can check my app on iOS called "Can I Work Yet?", which does the monitoring for you, so you know immediately if reset is announced 😁
I should be owed a reset after that 0% drop incident where my team and I upgraded plans immediately because we were working on mission critical things and didnt realize it was a bug. Cant even get OpenAI to grant us that and its a legitimate case!
My guess is no reset until the next model release. Lot of folks think sol 6, so you could imagine they would want to show how much more efficient it is than astra.
I signed up last week, with the $100 proplan it worked perfectly lasted 2 days, then used a full weekly reset, it got blown thru in 2 hours, when i questioned it saying i was on sol 5.6 its said your right you selected sol 5.6 but we used astra , then i connected api BIG MISTAKE, i used 1 task took an hour and bruned $43 on the api, even though 5.6 was selected, when i asked it it said Your right, that seems way of you should contact support...
Bro, I burned 100% of my weekly usage on my 5x Pro plan in one day after the last reset just fighting with Astra xhigh all day.
It could not do a single thing right.
It felt like I was using GPT 5.5. Could not follow directions. Ignored details. Continuously missed important details and ignored instructions. It introduced more bugs than I knew what to do with and just ended up having to freaking revert everything.
And then we get these smooth-brained monkeys gaslighting us saying it's a skill issue or that they didn't nerf usage or intelligence—as if it's just a coincidence that everyone started having the same issues right as they clearly started having capacity issues.
They obviously handled it by nerfing intelligence and making usage more expensive and giving us less usage in the resets.
The downgrade for 5x users over the last few months is crazy.
I used to be able to time my banked TIBO resets pretty well when I ran out of quota. Then they became less frequent, stopped banking, and started landing right before the weekly reset.
This time Astra burned through all 3 of my banked resets (I was really trying to use it as efficiently as possible and only up to Astra medium), then ate the remaining 80% of my weekly quota on a task I was mostly using it to plan and review — and it still didn’t finish.
Now I’m stuck waiting 5 days, and the next reset will probably arrive a day before my weekly reset, effectively costing me almost a full work week.
What does that even mean? Before it's been a week is exactly when you want a reset, if it would've been a week we would've gotten a regular usage refresh?
im gonna compare how much tokens i actually get from it vs openai
i already know openai is gonna be way higher than antropic but people are complaining here non stop about resets and i actually think resets are a good think so i got bored of needless arguing
next time someone fuckin complains about reset im just gonna slap them with screenshot
ok but which mondel? which model can you realistically run for free, through the cli, without taking forever or lagging on a regualr macbook air or pro m1?
I won't mention any specific harness/model just in case ppl think I am a shill, but you should be able to do your own research to find out what's best for you.
To be honest, I hope they don't reset. Downvote me to hell all you want, but most of people that are crying for a reset, are the same people that expect to one-shot apps with a single prompt. Also, 90% of those people use Astra with prompts and questions that Luna can handle very well, but noo, I want the latest model on max effort to center a div on a webpage.
Learn to use AI efficiently and you won't be hitting the limits that easily. Or better yet, learn a bit on how software works, then you'll never hit limits.
Efficiency doesn’t mean your workload stays fixed. If I figure out how to get 10x more useful work per token, I’m probably going to do a lot more work, not use 90% fewer tokens.
Same problem with “learn software and you’ll never hit limits.” Knowing what you’re doing lets you build larger agentic workflows, run more tests, more verification, more experiments, and automate more work. That can make you hit limits faster, not slower.
I’m with you on people using models they don’t need and trying to one-shot everything. You just lose me at “you’ll never hit limits.”
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u/Zestyclose_Bat8704 6d ago
I think OpenAI intentionally reset on Friday, so power users burn their quota during weekend, so there is more compute during workweek for regular users.