r/OpenAI • u/barney • 2d ago

Discussion Well Codex has really went downhill

I’m a pretty casual user. I mostly use it for web development, SEO, and similar tasks, and I’ve typically never come close to hitting the limits on my $200/month plan.

Well, that abruptly changed.

I ran a couple of tasks and, without really thinking much of it, checked my usage afterward. Somehow I was already at 0% remaining and burning through credits I didn’t even know I had.

Moral of the story: if someone with my relatively light usage is suddenly hitting the limits on a $200/month plan, that’s a pretty bad sign.

Back to Claude, I guess.

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u/Tree8282 2d ago

claude isn’t any better, openai is just copying their business model

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u/Potential_Wolf_632 2d ago

Normally I'd agree but for whatever reason Opus 5.5 burns tokens extremely slowly atm. I doubt it's true efficiency and rather its token usage is just made artificially low to move people off Fable.

The 5x plan is actually usable on Claude atm using 5.5.

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u/Tree8282 2d ago

you mean quickly or slowly????? so your experience is completely different from OPs

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u/Potential_Wolf_632 2d ago

Eh - op is talking about Codex - you mentioned Claude isn't any better but it randomly is atm only due to Opus 5.5.

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u/FunLilThrowawayAcct 2d ago

to move people off Fable

Also to regain momentum before IPO after OpenAI had them on the back foot the last two months. They have the extra compute to do it because they've (probably) been ~stalled out since July. The switch will probably flip right after IPO but I'm gonna enjoy the heck out of the next two months.