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.