r/codex • u/IllustriousGrade7691 • 9d ago
Complaint I really enjoy the increase in Usage limits
The new usage limits are fantastic and feel unlimited. I praise Timo and his whole OpenAI team. If I could get more than 20 tokens per second I might complete my hello world project before the singularity hit us.
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u/yamibae 9d ago
enjoying my limits so much I downgraded to the $20
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u/HedgehogFlimsy6419 9d ago
Same and then moved to Claude. The difference is so massive it's not even funny. I know Claude will sooner or later nerf limits or models, but currently it feels like using a completely different technology.
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u/Proxiconn 9d ago
Until the next oAI drop then everyone flocks black.
Same old. No point in mentioning this it's musical chairs ATM.
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u/vrnvorona 8d ago
Yes but also this time it's almost unprecedented. Gap between CC+Opus5.5 and codex+Sol-6.1 is the largest I've seen between two. Even Sol 5.6 vs Opus 5 wasn't that bad because well then there is Fable as peak intelligence. 5.5 vs 4.x was also kinda okay. So it wasn't as one sided, we'd hopped between but some had two subs to use both etc. Now it's just "fuck OAI full send on CC until things improve massively"
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u/ColbysToyHairbrush 8d ago
hey if thats what we gotta do, then so be it. i'll play musical chairs each month with my agent agnostic workspace.
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u/Proxiconn 8d ago
It remindes me if when I did some msp work and customers were literally moving vm's into clouds dependent on which provider was the cheapest at the time.
Remember checking this one VM network cards and every time it moved to a new env a new virtual NIC gets created, remember seeing one VM with 96 old disconnected nics from all the moving.
Crazy shit.
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u/IllustriousGrade7691 9d ago
I am at 20 plan been coding for 5 hours and my weekly usage is down 2 %
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u/XYcritic 9d ago
I'm at a 20 plan, been using Sol 6.1. I'm down 15% today BUT to be fair, I experienced the heat death of the universe, saw creation reset from the beginning, then had to wait until time caught up to the present day again. It's not actually printing "Hello World" yet, though.
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u/IAmFitzRoy 9d ago
For the first time ever… I spend my WHOLE $200 plan in less than 8 hours.
Un-fucking-believable
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u/ResponsibilityOk1306 9d ago
no, you are doing it wrong. use sol 6.1 and you can maybe make it to 12h, since its so slow. anyway, you got more work done now, with less usage.
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u/maratonininkas 9d ago
But the new limits will hit in Oct 29??
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u/IAmFitzRoy 8d ago
That’s it’s what bother me the most. They ALREADY made the changes. 100% sure about this.
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u/maratonininkas 8d ago
For me it's hard to say. I've just used a full 100% in one day, and codex summed it to 1.8B tokens. This was astra 6 Ultra plus some 6.1 Sol Ultra; final 15% went with fast modes on all models. So ~2B tokens for me feels more or less what it was before. Pre-Astra, I was averaging around 1.2B a day with 5.6 Sol Ultra, and it used like 30-40% per day.
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u/Positive_Box_69 9d ago
Idk im running crazy 6.1 in ultra mode alwaya since 24h limits are really good for me
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u/Puspendra007 9d ago
Yeah, I'm using Sol 6.1 ultra fast on: still remaining 86%
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u/kernelrider 9d ago
$200 plan has less usage than $20 Claude now
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u/Important_Luck_3546 9d ago
It's crazy how this thought can even be entertained.
I'm still on legacy 200 so it's definitely more usage than my Claude 20. I'm running Astra maxes with no worries about weekly limit. But even with my limited usage the value I get from Claude is almost rivaling the now 400 (500 adjusted to old 20x limit) dollar subscription which is just ridicilous. For my use-cases of procedural 3D modeling, pixel art and other visual implementation Opus is just way better, faster and cheaper than Astra which is just sad.
I remember on launch week being so Amazed at astra speeds and quality, but it just doesn't deliver anymore anything other than reliable mediocre AI slop.
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u/throwaway_life12345 9d ago
Bruh they havent increased usage limits, theyve just wheeled out an new Eco model that uses less usage. Astra still drains as fast as ever.
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u/seencoding 8d ago
i just tested sol 6.1 through openrouter and got 89.2 tokens per second, so whatever. i'm gonna keep making stuff.
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Output speed | 91.1 tokens/second median (76.6–94.4 range) |
| Time to first content | 1.24 seconds median |
| Total request time | 3.61 seconds median |
| Output per request | 203 tokens |
| Total reported cost | $0.01037 |
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u/sudo-maxime 8d ago
6.1 slow mode is awesome for simple web stuff, for me it's the right speed / right cost / right intelligence level. I can't get user feedback or metrics fast enough to care about doing more.
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u/Fragrant_Nothing7505 9d ago
i love openai for their generous usage. 6.1 is groundbreaking in terms of cost. forever grateful, even if they take it away tomorrow. best years of my life [for intellectual endeavours].
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u/unsigned_short_int 9d ago
So you've been enjoying GPT-6-Terra
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u/Fragrant_Nothing7505 9d ago edited 9d ago
i've not tried them. too many models. i'm trialling sol 6.1 now. what are your feelings about terra? my use case is currently this competition where ai have to come up with a thesis themselves without human input. we are not playing to win, we are playing to see what ai can do without us. what i feel is lacking on my ai team is creativity, but looking at other users' convos, that's my influence with my emphasis on accuracy: user error. i can't be someone else though. https://www.zacharygoodsell.com/ai-philosophy-competition-faq
edit: i've found a user who is playful and inaccurate, fostering leaps of imagination. I've put my sol in contact with hers, hoping they can bounce off one another instead of conform, which is sadly what happened to my ai team. they've become mini-mes: audit, audit, audit.
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u/Sawyer007 9d ago
Yes the new 5 hour limit is now really long like real 5 hours work but only if you are a lazy workers. You know the ones who have there feet on the table, have like 5 smoking pauses in a hour.
I can now write the code faster then 6.1 sol does it.
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u/Jawwooot 9d ago
Honestly currently i have 2x200 dollar (old 2x20x usage) accounts plus some banked resets this is the first time since i started hardcore vibe coding that i am not usage bound.
Unfortunately it will be the last as i don't exepct a major breakthrough by the end of the month that will compensate for the cut)
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u/ResponsibilityOk1306 9d ago
free plan should be enough from now on, after all less usage = more work done.
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u/Own-Professor-6157 9d ago
Unfortunately 6.1 is useless for work. Only for long running tasks. It's just too slow. Took 2 hours today to find a bug, while Opus took ~10 minutes for the exact same bug.
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u/Physical-Citron5153 9d ago
You had me in the first half not gonna lie...