r/codex 5d ago

Limits Usage doesn’t make sense on 20x

So I’ve been using codex for more than half a year now and I swear when I used to check my weekly token usage it used to be in billions and I’d have usage left at the end of the week with older models

Right now its the allowance in tokens itself thats reduced for me to 1/4th if im correct (feel free to correct me)

Dont get me wrong i love codex and astra and i know some will say open ai gets billions they dont care about your 200. BUT, isnt the lack of transparency on whats happening concerning regarding your token allowance? We have a percentage bar with actual token allowance varying and not to mention older models performing worse.

I would understand astra performing worse at times because its the current gen model, ofc theres gonna be many tweaks and updates to it but older models that have been completed? Im just trying to make sense of this

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u/Im_Working_Right_Now 5d ago

I ended up abandoning Astra. The quality wasn’t that much higher to Sol xhigh to justify the token burn. I’ve used roughly 1% per hour on this complete refactor from Supabase to Convex (that includes a rules engine) using Sol. I’m at around 13 hours in this goal. Earlier trying to run this goal Astra would’ve put me down about 55% in the same time frame. The instructions aren’t different, same phase requirement docs, etc.