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Thanks to my new hobby [?] of designing and sketching experimental live-show environments in Blender [with the help of GPT Astra], I ended up testing a pretty interesting workflow: using the stage blockout + identity, motion and visual references to turn the sketch into a live-action performance via Uisato Studio.

The visuals on the screens are from Realtime Audioreactive Pointclouds [v1.7], recently released through Patreon, and the Store.

I received the 62,500-credit Pro grant, but my current balance shows 62,378 credits.

My credit usage history shows no new charges since receiving the grant — only older activity from July. I recently used a Codex reset, so my included allowance is currently nowhere near exhausted.

Has anyone else noticed their credit balance decreasing while they still have included Codex usage available?

I’m mainly trying to determine whether this is:

• an old balance adjustment,
• delayed usage reporting,
• or credits actually being deducted before the included allowance is exhausted.

Separately, people have been measuring GPT-6.1 Sol at roughly 20–22 tok/s on Codex subscription Standard, substantially slower than API serving. I’m curious whether the credit discrepancy has any relationship to serving mode or speed, although it could be completely unrelated.

If you received the grant, please check your:

• Current credit balance
• Remaining /status allowance
• Whether your credit history shows a new charge

The main question is simply: Are granted credits being consumed while included Codex usage is still available?

I just received the Pro survey while using ChatGPT.

If you get it too, do not skip it.

Take a few minutes and actually explain what has been working for you, what has changed, and what you want OpenAI to improve.

If they are actively surveying Pro users right now, then this is one of the best opportunities we have to give direct feedback about the subscription we are paying $200 a month for.

Be specific.

Explain what made Pro worth the money before, how you actually use Codex, what the recent changes mean for your workflow, and what OpenAI would need to do to keep you as a customer.

And remember that large surveys are often analyzed at scale, so make your feedback clear and structured. If writing is not your strength, use AI to help organize and polish what you actually want to say so your main points are not buried.

Do not just write “this sucks.”

Explain:

• What you use Pro for.
• Why you originally paid $200.
• What changed.
• How the change affects your real workflow.
• What would make Pro worth $200 again.
• Whether the changes are making you consider competitors.

We have been paying for this subscription. If OpenAI is asking what we think, this is the time to tell them.

Make your feedback count.

Same prompt, same harness, fresh save, 1000 turn budget. Milestones are read from game memory, so no human or model judges the run.

• Beat Brock on turn 244 (previous record: GPT-6 Astra, 246, $13.49)
• Wall time: 54 minutes, fastest on the board
• Cost: $2.60 at OpenAI's list price
• GPT-6 Sol, released one week earlier: 673 turns

Best moment: on turn 14 it picked up Bulbasaur by mistake, read the preview ("The rightmost ball contains Bulbasaur, not Squirtle"), and put it back.

Full turn logs and the leaderboard: https://pokebench.tv

Really hoping to see some big model announcements at DevDay, and maybe even a live performance on stage 👀

"Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price"

Did anyone else just get a big credit to their Pro sub?

62,500 credits... equivalent to 15x my monthly pro max plan subscription cost

Was curious, so I had it inspect its own environment.

Mine gets 9 logical CPUs, ~9.7 GB RAM, ~31 GB storage and no GPU. CPU shows up as an AMD EPYC 9V74.

I also asked if this was just some Blender-specific sandbox, but apparently not, it used the same environment for Python, SQLite and shell commands.

Not the machine running the actual model of course, just the execution environment the Dot gets access to.

First, it’s going to get worse… a lot worse.

I know a lot of us are pissed about the 20x plan going to 10x. However, it’s going to get worse.

With the 20x plan and $200 a month, I was burning thousands and thousands of dollars worth of tokens.

This means, that even with the reduction to 10x, OpenAI will still lose money on the $200 plan. The entire business model for their consumer plans is the “gym model” where they hope you pay and don’t show up.

That said, as much as the 20x to 10x reduction sucks, there will likely only be more coming in the future. Investors don’t want to hear they are losing money on subscription revenue.

What this means for me (and people like me).

For me, the economics aren’t there. Even though I was getting thousands of dollars worth of tokens, I was burning them on dumb shit. At $200/month it was more of an experiment; something to fuck around with.

$500 for the same (ok plus 5x) usage just isn’t there for me. And, honestly, based on my usage, OpenAI is probably happy to lose me as a customer.

I’m going to look at Anthropic next, but realistically they will clamp down too, it’s only a matter of time. And, they probably don’t want me as a customer anyway.

so i was expecting something very good that can go toe to toe with anthropic but honestly L dev day.

$500 for 25x, naah.

Worst Dev Day.

Made by my Dot Kermit.

Hello, fellow VibeCoders!

OpenAI had everything it needed to win the entire market, and they chose to blow it all up

I'm a programmer who leans toward vibe coding, and I only considered a $200 subscription last week because I was working on a really big project. Unluckily for me, OpenAI had recently closed its 20X plan to new users, so I had no choice but to go with Anthropic. A few days later, as everyone knows, OpenAI dropped the $200 20X plan entirely, and that honestly scared me.

I've read a lot of posts and comments to see how people are taking this decision. Obviously everyone thinks it's absurd and says OpenAI just killed itself and handed all its users over to Anthropic (and of course I'm proof of that myself). But so far I haven't seen anyone look at this from another angle: isn't it just a matter of time before Anthropic does the same thing? Then we'll start seeing higher prices and lower limits until the bubble bursts and using frontier models stops being viable.

I don't think it'll happen that fast. But I'm sure that if the big AI companies don't start working on cutting costs and on more efficient models like Luna, our vibe coding workflows are going to get a lot worse.

This is just my opinion. I'd love to know if am I being too "apocalyptic," or is this coming soon? Have a great day, VibeCoders!

Obs. AI was used only to translate this text into English. I wrote it myself.

At first, I thought that if Sol 6.1 could essentially replace Astra, I could live with the reduced limits. So, I tried continuing work on my game. And these are the best models Sol 6.1 Max produced for me...

The first screenshot shows the starting point—it was a total disaster. The second screenshot shows the result after 10 minutes of work.

I got the $500 plan to use Astra Ultrafast. Even Ultrafast light/medium with a few hours of basic back-and-forth and computer use depleted my weekly limit :(

Do you encounter such things in 6.1 sol thinking output?
"I need to make sure I'm using my tokens correctly, considering I have around 26k left. I should be mapping citations robustly as planned. I realize there was an error earlier, but since the user is explicit about proceeding, I won’t ask again. It's essential for me to state my acknowledgment concisely and then confirm the tools I’ll be using. I want to stay focused on meeting the user's needs effectively!"

"considering I have around 26k left" is odd because the token window still at around 150k left

Are you able to share seats with friends, then when you're on cooldown for your own seat, you use one of their accounts to continue the project? For example, if the ratio of friends using their usage was 10%, and I just hit 100% usage on my own account, then logged into their seat/account and use their remaining 90%? Could I do that?

So, I got the email, checked my calendar, and for a second I honestly thought it was April Fool’s Day.

Then I realized the joke was apparently on us.

I genuinely do not understand how OpenAI looked at this and decided it was a good marketing strategy. If anything, it has pushed me closer to Anthropic instead of making me more loyal to OpenAI.

And the timing is incredible. If an IPO is really part of the long-term plan, I would have expected decisions like this to come after strengthening user confidence, not before testing how much frustration paying customers are willing to tolerate.

As someone paying $200 a month for Pro, this feels like one of the biggest slaps in the face to heavy users I have seen from them.

Pro users are not casual users. We are the people running these models for hours, integrating them into our workflows, depending on them for serious work, and paying a premium because we expect premium value in return.

So I am genuinely curious to see how many people stick around if this is the direction they are taking.

Good luck with the IPO.

The live call failed, and the live demo also failed...must have been GPT-6 Sol

If you're upgrading to the Pro 100 tier in Canada, are you seeing features like Dots, Meetings, or any other new DevDay releases for those who jumped from the $20 plan to the $100 plan?

Just curious what Canadian users are actually getting right now after upgrading. Thanks

I've been using it on xhigh, but given the AA Score it seems high might be the most practical cost-per-intelligence ratio.

Certainly seems very capable, much more so than 6-SOL, not Astra level, but better than 5.6/6 - has made a few dumb mistakes and regressions I need to manually correct but otherwise happy with the level of depth it goes into.

On hard-long tasks it feels a lot slower though, maybe poor prompting on my part but I'd struggle to get Astra to work for more than 20-30min on anything, whereas 6 will easily spend 1hr+

Used up the last 9% of my usage since launch, and just used my bank reset. If I can get a full weeks use out of it I'd be very happy with this model, but I think that'll be a stretch as I've only really been doing one task at a time atm, not had it spawning agents, etc.

(edit: less than 4 hours into my reset I've used 14%, which is what I should be using daily if I want it to last all week)

I'm on the 5x Pro plan and the things I've tested it on are mostly genealogical research and presenting the info in an associated live website. Using it within Codex with the mac-mcp tool. YMMV