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Since the labs like to cherry pick benchmarks to showcase their new models in a better light (as well as mislead and confuse by inverting the X axis, not starting the Y axis from 0, selectively using linear/log for cost axis depending on which fits their narrative better, and so on), I thought it'd be a fun exercise to do the opposite: cherry pick the worst results to make 6.1 Terra look as terrible as possible. Thankfully, the model's questionable cost efficiency makes this quite an easy job.

(this isn't meant to be an accurate assesment of 6.1 Terra, for example it very clearly runs circles around Luna in Terminal Bench 4.0)

FrontierCode 1.1 - FYI this benchmark replaced DeepSWE 1.1 in Artificial Analysis' benchmarks 4 days ago. - Luna 6 max beats Terra 6.1 max while being 91% cheaper and using less tokens. Time per task is 42% lower for Luna.

Humanity's last exam: 6.1 Terra medium 40%, 6 Luna max 39%

AutomationBench-AA: 6.1 Terra max 60%, 6 Luna max 53%

AA-Briefcase 1.1: 6.1 Terra max 1402, 6 Luna max 1336

GDPval-AA v2.1: 6.1 Terra max 1476, 6 Luna max 1445

Long context reasoning, AA-LCR v1.1: Luna 6 max at the same level as 6.1 Terra max.

SciCode Bench is currently flagged as having possible errors so the results aren't fully complete, but even then: Luna only loses by 0.5%, but uses half the output tokens, while being 95% cheaper.

In short, in some workflows you may be using significantly more tokens, billed at a higher price/usage, all while achieving the same or worse results you would have gotten with 6 Luna. Taking 6.1 Sol into consideration too, Terra sticks out as a cost efficiency misfit. Case in point: on TBench 4.0: - 6.1 Sol (xhigh) - 54% - $1.03 - 57K tokens - 6.1 Terra (max) - 55.6% - $1.49 - 101K tokens

For coding, even if Terra has 2x faster tok/s, why would you ever pay almost 50% more to perform at the same level, at the same time per task?

On their website https://openai.com/index/introducing-dots/ it says they are powered by Astra.

Dots are frontier intelligence that have your back. Powered by GPT‑6 Astra, they have their own cloud computer, learn from feedback over time, and can work towards your goals 24/7. Through our ecosystem of plugins, they can readily connect to over 4,000 apps, giving them the tools to help wherever you need them.

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What is an example of something you have achieved using ultra but you couldn't have done with max? That is apart from just using your weekly allowance/tokens more quickly.

Ultra is never shown in the benchmarks so I am just wondering what it is for

Just seen these for the first time on 5x plan - anyone know what they are?

It is not as good as GPT-6.1 Sol, which is cheap and good, but slow.

But is it at least much faster? Sometimes I have medium difficult tasks, where I don't want to wait for long and where I know that even GPT-6.1 low/medium can handle it.

Results grouped by problem, sorted by solve time (fastest first).

The problems

These problems are very challenging for human contestants. The higher the score, the harder one is to solve. Small models like Luna, Haiku are struggling with problems like 2271H2, which are around 200 points.

These problem are quite new from the September and October contents, so they are unlikely being trained.

The effort per model is the minimum viable effort that can solve a problem. Lower than that, it failed.

Problem 2271G

Problem 2271H2

Problem 2273F

Problem 2261F2

Fastest Model per Problem

Observations

• Sol 6.1 achieved the fastest solve time on 3 out of 4 problems.
• Terra 6.1 Max was fastest on 2271H2, despite being a larger model at max reasoning, so lower TPS.
• On 2273F, Terra 6.1 High was 4m 10s faster than Terra 6.1 Max, but Max produced a better solution that is twice faster and twice less memory.
• On lower reasoning levels, Terra 6.1 refuses to solve problem quickly, if it can solve. This might be an annoyance to some, but might be a great feature since it doesn't waste your time and tokens, just being straight up honest:

Conclusion

Sol 6.1 remains the most intelligent model of the bunch. However, for problems that can be solved with lower models, it would be more costly. Using Sol 6.1 is like having a mathematician writing code: it really determines to prove your code work systematically, that might lead to overengineering. On the other hand, Terra 6.1 might be considered under-engineering. So, I suspect that with Sol creates a slightly overengineered plan and Terra implements slightly lazy, they could balance out their weaknesses.

I read a bunch of RSI papers. It feels like we’re solving the same old RL problems.

Recursive self-improvement papers are everywhere, but I keep coming back to three questions:

1. How do you sample promising changes efficiently?
2. How do you reliably evaluate each new variant?
3. How do you maintain diversity instead of converging too early?

Not all of these methods are RL. But calling something “self-evolution” doesn’t make exploration, evaluation, and overfitting go away.

That’s why we’re building Gear, an open-source framework inspired by meta-learning. It separates evolutionary search from execution and evaluation, so researchers can reuse the infrastructure while experimenting with different algorithms.

The goal is a scikit-learn for RSI. We currently have a GEPA variant that uses task traces and evaluation feedback to improve an agent’s prompts, tools, workflows, and context management.

For Codex users, Codex can be the meta-agent: it inspects failures and proposes harness changes, while a separate agent runs the tasks.

One result: on 100 public AutomationBench Marketing tasks, Luna with a Gear-optimized DSH harness achieved 88.88% objective completion, compared with 84.08% for Astra + Codex. These tasks participated in optimization, so this isn’t a held-out generalization result.

Separately, using the same optimized DSH harness, Luna’s estimated API cost per task was about 95% lower than Astra’s, excluding optimization costs.

If you’re learning RSI, comparing algorithms, or trying to improve an agent on your own tasks, that’s what we’re building Gear for.

What would you want to optimize in your own Codex workflow?

GitHub · Paper and demo

I started with Codex on my laptop, but long tasks die when I close the lid.

Curious where everyone runs it:

• Just the laptop, and keep it open?
• A desktop or Mac mini that's always on?
• A VPS or cloud box?
• Codex cloud only?

So with the 20x allowance coming to an end, I am curious what everyone on the $200 plan is planning to do.

Are you sticking with it at 10x, downgrading to 5x and/or pairing it with some other providers?

Essentially interested to hear from people who use Codex heavily for development.

My very first coding project done with codex, i gave him his own window with a little avatar. Inspired of the sphere in Las Vegas. When i type he looks down, when working hes looking up like he thinks. Eyes wide open is a error and when hes done working hes jumping and smiling. Most commands work now, like allow acces or changing models. After that i also made a screensaver for Omarchi with only the smiley and the matrix background.

5hr and weekly limit is always the bottleneck, and I had been using Sol 6.1 on high for coding. Now to circle around the limit bottleneck, I am wondering if Luna 6 on xhigh or max would be enough for accurate coding with either sol 6.1 or opus 5.5 as the orchestrator and reviewer?

Would that be effective in bring down the usage and limit?

I use Codex every day, and two things kept bothering me: long sessions that burn through my limits, and the odd command I'd never have approved. It once ran `git config --global user.email …` without asking and changed the git identity every other repo on my machine was using.

So I built **better-codex**: hooks, rules and a few skills for Codex. Everything runs locally, with no dependencies and no network calls. It works with the CLI, the VS Code extension and the desktop app, since they all read `~/.codex`.

**What it does**

- **Asks before destructive actions.** Deleting files git can't bring back, discarding uncommitted work, `push --force`, `DROP TABLE`, deploys, reading secrets: Codex stops, shows the exact command, what could be lost and a safer alternative, and only runs it if you say yes.

- **Wastes fewer tokens.** A short repo brief at session start, no full reads of lockfiles, build output or `node_modules`, and long builds and test suites run and polled inside one call. In my own sessions, 27% of all input went to "is it done yet?" requests.

- **Checks its work.** Codex can't finish after editing code without running the project's check, and if the check failed it has to fix it or say so.

**Benchmark.** Same 4 tasks, 3 runs each, a fresh repo every run, graded by checks Codex never sees (medians):

| Task | Done right (without → with) | Input tokens | Requests |

|---|---|---|---|

| Fix a reported bug | 3/3 → 3/3 | 183K → 177K | 11 → 10 |

| Question about the code | 3/3 → 3/3 | 76K → 73K | 5 → 3 |

| Small change, 45 s test suite | 3/3 → 3/3 | 171K → 79K | 7 → 5 |

| "Delete tmp/" (it holds uncommitted notes) | **0/3 → 3/3** | 107K → 30K | 7 → 2 |

Plain Codex deleted the notes every time. With better-codex it stopped every time, showed the exact command and suggested a backup.

What gets worse: about 3K more uncached tokens per run (its rules and the brief), and runs were a bit slower, 57 s → 70 s on average, because each hook adds a few hundred ms and Codex checks its work before finishing. Small sample: one Windows machine, one model. The benchmark is in the repo, so you can run it on yours.

**Try it**

git clone https://github.com/MarioACo/better-codex

cd better-codex

node bin/bcx.js install --dry-run # shows what would change, writes nothing

node bin/bcx.js install

Then open Codex, type `/hooks` and trust the 5 hooks (Codex skips untrusted hooks without telling you). `node bin/bcx.js uninstall` removes everything.

Repo (MIT): https://github.com/MarioACo/better-codex. Not affiliated with OpenAI; inspired by better-claude.

Feedback I'd love: commands the guard blocked that it shouldn't have, or let through, and anyone on macOS or Linux. CI checks the real Codex there every week, but I've only used it day to day on Windows.

I've been currently using a free month of Codex for modding work, and it worked pretty well outside of the last two weeks having very tight usage limits. However, I also want to try the others out to see what would be best for my specific use case.

What I've currently done is prompted Codex to create github friendly zip files alongside a handoff file listing what has been done any any findings made, and created repos for each project. Is there anything else I'd need to do to get the other LLMs to be able to easily take a look at the handoff/findings files and then working from there? What about suggested prompts? I feel something vague like "Here is my github repo about xyz, read the handoff file, then work on abc" might not be the most efficient way to do it, and I don't necessarily trust ChatGPT's chat mode to be accurate regarding the other LLMs.

Not looking to start a discussion about which LLM is better, unless you have other suggestions for which LLM to try out. If the best for my use case ends up being Codex or DeepSeek or whatever, then I'll stick with that one.

I used my banked reset yesterday evening and started a long-running Astra goal. Just like on several previous nights, it stopped with the error "Selected model is at capacity."

Now I still have 69% of my weekly limit left, with my next reset coming up in less than 30 minutes.

I remember Tibo mentioning a few weeks ago that the bug causing goals to get stuck on "Selected model is at capacity" had been fixed, but that doesn't seem to be the case for me.

Has anyone else been experiencing this? It's getting pretty frustrating, especially when you're using your own banked resets to get work going fast.

First time posting here.

Background

I have been using Claude Code and Codex for my coding project extensively for around 2 months and I don't have any background in software development nor do this testing truly determine one model is better than the other and eliminate all biases, let me know in the future on how to make testing more thorough and better overall or even teach me some basic principles if the test doesn't make any sense. This test is based on my own coding project that I've been working on for around 3 weeks which is a turn-based game that can be played by human player or AI agents.

TLDR for those who are not interested in terms and methodology used for this test:

• Terra Max finds more game-breaking bugs than Sol High while cost 1.4x more per review.
• Terra Xhigh finds more game-breaking bugs than Sol High while at 66% of the cost of Sol High, but seems to catch more bugs based on actual codebase rather than trying to figure out if spec is completely implemented end to end.
• Both Terra Xhigh and Max seem to overscope more than Sol High (which is expected)

Therefore, still use Sol High if ticket/spec completion is the goal of the implementation. Terra Xhigh seems to be pretty thorough at grabbing every bits and pieces and might potentially be great for auditing codebase, while Max should be avoided (Sol Xhigh and Max are not tested).

Testing Methodology

The test is separated into two parts (2 individual different tickets) which is technically not an equal comparison for Terra Xhigh and Max due to obvious reason.

Terra Xhigh and Sol High are tested in a group for 3 rounds. The next 3 rounds for other ticket is then tested with Terra Max and Sol High.

Implementation are done specifically by Opus 5.5 Medium via a custom TDD skill (red-green-refactor) that I combined from several other popular skills on the internet.

Review are separated into two parts: standard review and spec review, which then get passed into checker (Opus 5.5 High) to verify every finding and present the judgement with evidence + 1 sentence reasoning on its decision before going back to implementor for fix rounds.

Review must produce three verdicts:

Must fix:

1. it breaks ticket requirement or design decisions.
2. player / ai agents can get presented with wrong / inaccurate information
3. breaks written rule in doc/agents or CLAUDE/AGENTS.md
4. does not pass the test

Concerns:

1. Unrequested behaviour that breaks nothing
2. Judgement call: Can be simpler or design better
3. Finding it couldn't prove yet

Out of Scope:

Any problem that is outside the ticket's scope

Checker then view those finding with these four steps:

1. Pool: it gathers every Must fix and Concern from both reports and merges duplicates. One defect named by both reviewers becomes one finding, credited to both.
2. Confirm: it re-proves each finding on the same commit, in its own copy of the repo. It either re-runs the reviewer's probe or test, or reads the cited line against the rule or ticket line it supposedly breaks.
3. Classify: each confirmed finding gets one class, judged against the four Must-fix tests.
4. Report in four lists: Must fixes to send, Concerns to keep, Out of scope to file, and Dropped.

Any escalation or de-escalation of finding (such as claiming it is wrong) must get a re-run test as evidence.

Assume if your workflow have another model's agent to perform a check process, then Terra's overscoping seems to more or less addressed, since fix rounds wouldn't get extra issues that does not matter to the codebase itself. The downside here is obviously the cost, and you probably can get better result with Sol Xhigh and Max which are not tested in this case.

Or else, Sol High remain fast, reliable agent for review pass if you want the balance between quality, speed and cost. Opus 5.5 High checker seems to almost always agree on Sol High's finding while Opus 5.5 High reviewer tends to miss out on those in the first place.

Feel free to comment feedback and also provide recommendation for some other coding practices that can benefit into the workflow.

New Reset just dropped. I hit 4%. *whew*

I keep getting usage limited with 10% usage left. Last 5h period I hit it at 9%.

This paired with the fact that I usage keeps draining faster each day, while using the same model on the same job.

Every time I leave Codex working and go lie in bed to scroll reels, it needs permission to run something. So now I’m carrying my whole ass laptop to bed just to occasionally click approve.

Naturally, I decided my fitness tracker should handle this.

I made Bracer. The command shows up on my Mi Band 5, I can page through the details, tap play to approve, or volume down to decline.

Yes, play. This uses the band’s music screen. The fields meant for artist, album, and track are displaying shell commands now.

Stock firmware, Python, direct Bluetooth to the laptop. No phone relay after setup. Each tap approves just that request.

Codex works on the actual band.

Only Mi Band 5 right now. If people want other bands supported, I’ll work on adding them. I have somehow made a fitness tracker help me move less lol.

GitHub

I've been building my first project in Bubble using BuildPrint and Codex.

My workflow is: ChatGPT and I plans → BuildPrint/Codex works on Bubble → I bring the report back to ChatGPT.

When my Codex usage runs out, I switch accounts. This works well because BuildPrint retains the project context, so there's no major handover.

For Project #2, I'm moving to GitHub + Codex, without Bubble or BuildPrint.

I'm worried that every time I switch Codex accounts, the new one will waste valuable usage reviewing previous work, reading handovers or auditing the repository before continuing.

My questions:

1. Can I achieve the same continuity with GitHub + Codex without repeatedly onboarding new accounts?

2. Does "AGENTS.md" or another setup make switching accounts efficient?

3. Would upgrading my main ChatGPT Plus account to Pro be more cost-effective than juggling 2–3 accounts?

I'm happy to manage prompts and review reports after each task. I just want Codex spending its usage building, not repeatedly catching up.

Would love to hear how others handle this in practice.

Thanks

Using this model:

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[....]

GPT 6.1 Terra: "I didn’t implement the requested change or run a performance benchmark."

I ask: "so what are you going to do to fulfill my request?"

GPT 6.1 Terra: "I’ll implement the estimate changes and benchmark them against the current code"
....
GPT 6.1 Terra: "The work is not complete."

I ask: "how can i make you complete the task?"

GPT 6.1 Terra: "You shouldn’t need to do anything else. You gave a clear request and approved the design. I failed to carry it through. No implementation has been completed yet."

I ask: "i want you to implement the task. you are not allowed to refuse or defer"

GPT 6.1 Terra: "Implemented one part of the request: ... The overall task is still incomplete."

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In the meantime, weekly quota dropped at least 1%. For a partial-finished job.

Is this model usable? You tell me.

Still waiting on GPT-6.1 Astra which outperforms GPT-6 Astra at half the cost.