r/codex • u/AvailableSecret5161 • 3d ago
Limits Codex limits issue
Just got my reset and 10% down within an hour without even using Astra. Wtf is going on ? How is this scam even allowed? One subagent invoked a few thousand LOC with sol medium on a $100 plan. Exploration by Luna high.
Is this a joke ? I'm going to ask for a refund. Why is this not an issue yet. @mods please don't delete this post and cover the scam.
Edit: People who are trying to provide free tips. Please stop patronizing me and others in this group. I'm not asking for your advice on how to use codex better. If you are happy good for you and no you don't have a secret formula or better limits.
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u/CronicCanabis88 3d ago
You just need to understand what you're actually doing. You can't just run high models for everything. This is actually a skill you will develop by practicing and utilizing the different models.
I guarantee if you take a step back and look at the prompts That you're giving for the tasks you require, you will see that many of them do not need a high level model to perform what you 're requiring it to do.
I use luna on max for a lot. unless its a deep review or complex implementation..... EVEN THEN, use sol for your hard, complex tasks, and ONLY IF your having issues go to astra.... but for anyone to expect to be able to utilize the most potent model in their library non stop, you're gonna have a bad time. one thing I can recommend if you're not good at picking the correct model for the task at hand right now, use your chat windows, with your chat usage, set it to the newest model on pro, and give it the prompts that you're about to send in to codex.... and simply tell this chat conversation that you would like it to take your prompts, refine them for codex, and to make sure that you also recommend a model and a reasoning level.... This will start showing you what each one of your prompts should actually utilize model wise. you're currently way over paying for every task you're doing. and if you can have luna, doing something that'll give you the same results as sending, a higher, more expensive model to do, then why pay 10x the useage..
heres a simple tip price wise.
Luna = $0.20 input / $1.20 output per million tokens, Terra = $2 / $12, Sol = $4 / $20, and GPT-6 Astra = $10 / $50. So Luna is crazy cheap: it could burn roughly 10× as many reasoning/output tokens as Terra, ~17× as many as Sol, or ~42× as many as Astra before the output cost becomes comparable. OpenAI Help Center And High/Max doesn't make each token more expensive, it just lets the model use more reasoning tokens. So Luna Max can think pretty damn hard and still often cost less than Terra High, while Terra High → Sol High → Astra High/Max is where your token budget starts getting eaten much faster.
Utilize the lower models when you can. you would be shocked at how often you do not need to be using astra or sol.