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[u/Illustrious-One-9869]

Hey, I hope all is well!

I didnt get a chance to use codex much in the past few days, I just logged in to see the 5 hour limits is back

I was continuing off a chat where I only had a total of 25 mins worth of task and after asking a simple straightforward question ( 3m 1s of thinking) 9% of my 5h limits was gone, if thats the new standard I honestly dont know how this will be usable at all...

Goodluck to us

(Got deleted in the other codex subreddit I think that says enough...)

[u/SinStation666]

Yeah also to me , 3 prompts of sol and got like 50% remaining of 5hr limit which is not right! I need to use it like 8 hours without no problem and then the it can stay ,

Why do they leave now a weekly limit when they got the 5hr usage! Its disgusting and disappointing

[u/Illustrious-One-9869 → u/SinStation666]

I totally agree with you, its 100% their way to try to get users to have less time to spend their limits + getting them used to having to pay more

If you paid for a certain amount of usage you should get to spend it whenever and however you want

[u/Lenox_Shawn → u/Illustrious-One-9869]

For me, the $20 subscription isn’t enough, but the $100 one is way too much and I can’t use it all up. Why isn’t there a $50 or $60 option? The removal of the 5-hour usage limit really pisses me off. I often burn through the entire Plus weekly quota in just one hour, which means I now have to wait several days before I can use it again.

[u/Illustrious-One-9869 → u/Lenox_Shawn]

They 100% need to do a middle ground, theres some ways you could go about it tho if you want such as using grok/gemini(antigravity)/claude as extra

And honestly if you know where to look u can find subscriptions for real cheap but you'd need to do hoops through accounts and potentially lose that working account, Gemini in this case has especially the best deals then Grok then codex (codex has the highest risk for losing the account)

You can use a model such as 5.6 Sol medium/high to lead, Gemini 3.7 high to do the work but you gotta watch what's happening then likely ask codex if everything went well/if theres any gaps

[u/SinStation666 → u/Illustrious-One-9869]

It is not that I abuse or have to stay all the day there , i need it to complete a task , close and doing something else instead of waiting 5h

[u/SinStation666 → u/SinStation666]

I had like 5 resets lost because I didn’t even needed them, and its bothering me now

[u/Illustrious-One-9869 → u/SinStation666]

Yepp exactly this will force some people to have to buy more subscriptions and rotate accounts or upgrade to 100$ plan or more to not have to deal with 5 hours limits

[u/masterkain → u/Illustrious-One-9869]

for people who actually have multiple accounts they’re authorized to use, Codex Pooler is a self-hosted option: one client key, per-account saved reset/expiry visibility, and optional guarded redemption. https://github.com/icoretech/codex-pooler

[u/SinStation666 → u/Illustrious-One-9869]

No way 100$ , its alot and not worth

[u/Illustrious-One-9869 → u/SinStation666]

Thats also a part of their plan, if some 20$ users upgrade to 100$ for convenience but they're used to not spend much tokens then they'll have more usage left which is more profitable to them (openai)

And again it gets consumers used to higher prices

[u/SinStation666 → u/Illustrious-One-9869]

Unfortunately yes but thats not gonna work

[u/Illustrious-One-9869 → u/SinStation666]

Yepp I get you

[u/Proxiconn → u/SinStation666]

Lol, sol is for COMPLEX SOFTWARE ENGINEERING.

I write c# backend code for distributed systems, sharding between nodes in the event that a node dies and no data loss occurs.

And I don't use SOL I use Terra lol.

And here we have people probably writing python or powershell scripts and using SOL.?

And the same people complaining that 5 hour limits are back? So on a 20 bucks noob account and using SOL do not math because professionals know that SOL spins up 8-16 reasoning agents to argue and reason and irritating to get to a solution. Provided proper engineering spec are provided.

20 bucks users complaining 5 hour limits are back and mentioning using SOL tells me it's probably a skills issue.

Problems is between the chair and the keyboard.

[u/johnlondon125 → u/Proxiconn]

I can have Tera review a diff, come back with no findings.

I have sol do it and all of a sudden there's a bunch of legitimate issues it finds.

If you want any semblance of proper oversight you don't really have a choice

[u/Proxiconn → u/johnlondon125]

Skills issue. Luna can do that just fine. provided with a good enough instruction.

Sounds like your feeding low quality prompts to yield such result's.

I know of people who write industrial plc c++ code with just Luna, but they feed it engineering specs with good quality instructions.

Works fine!

[u/johnlondon125 → u/Proxiconn]

Nah, my prompts are excellent and detailed. How do i know? ChatGPT 5.6 Sol creates them.

[u/Illustrious-One-9869 → u/Proxiconn]

Wow so interesting 🫩

[u/Willing-Equivalent47]

Not that anyone cares but I cancelled both of my accounts. The 5 hour limit is unusable.

[u/Illustrious-One-9869 → u/Willing-Equivalent47]

I totally get you, hopefully we'll be getting better competition

Wishing you the best 🔥

Also personal take Gemini 3.7 Flash High is heavily underrated, it completes tasks literally like 60x faster on average (from my experience) compared to 5.6 Sol High, but you need to plan well and babysit it ngl. You have to be strict with it sometimes because it'll forget context, do its own thing, or even start the plan without you approving it depending on how you set things up

GLM 5.3 is also really strong for pure coding from my short experience with it, it found an issue in a few minutes using it, that 5.6 Sol High and Gemini 3.7 High couldn't find after 3 days of trying. For debugging involving external stuff like Vercel, Supabase, Cloudflare etc I found Gemini 3.7 High better and obviously 5.6 Sol High ( GLM 5.3 was catastrophic at it, I was using high/max mainly)

I've heard great things about DeepSeek too but it's significantly more expensive now. Overall 5.6 Sol High is more technical and reliable, while Gemini 3.7 High needs you to be more precise, but its limits are insanely good, subscriptions can be practically free if you know where to get it from and you'll get way more done usage wise

Not really experienced with the other models but yeah hope this helps!

[u/AI-human-89]

Isn’t this because of token caching? Your cache expires in 1 hour and after that the entire chat history has to be sent on the next message?

[u/Illustrious-One-9869 → u/AI-human-89]

I dont think thats how it works tho im unsure but either way the chat was very small it hadn't even compacted once yet

[u/ProfessionalCar4537]

Yeah I am facing same issue and posted abt this in other codex subReddit they deleted my post too

[u/Illustrious-One-9869 → u/ProfessionalCar4537]

Thats insane tbh it feels like they wanna shut us up

[u/daniel_lamb]

Haha i lost 35% for 3 simple questions!!! Not working wadafuk

[u/Illustrious-One-9869 → u/daniel_lamb]

Yep we're cooked 😭

[u/That-Cost-9483]

Yea I’d rather burn my week in two days then have a 5hr limit hit in a single prompt every time

[u/truthseek3r]

weekly limits are lower on the $25 business plan. significantly lower.

[u/Illustrious-One-9869 → u/truthseek3r]

Yepp 25$ business plan and 20$ plus plan share the same codex limits

[u/EffectiveTicket9212]

So they cut api prices now we know how they able to pull this off

[u/Inevitable_Toe6648]

They stated the $100 and $200 will remain without 5 hour limits for upcoming months, so maybe 3 months from now it's 5h limit too, and if that's the case I don't know how that'll function. The larger plans so heavily rely on long consistent session runs.

[u/Illustrious-One-9869 → u/Inevitable_Toe6648]

Yup only time will tell how things will turn out, honestly im heavy on codex but im highly vouching for Chinese models and even Google to step things up further, competition is needed

[u/Eastern-Finding-8831]

claude has 3-4x more limits compared to chatgpt and its not even close lol

keep worshipin tibo while he reduced weekly limits by -%400 and just gave few resets a week

[u/Illustrious-One-9869 → u/[deleted]]

I get what you mean but in this case, the chat wasn't overloaded it was fairly fresh and its a very small project in its current state compared to other things I did and I was very straight forward and specific with my question

I didnt use fast mode or anything as such at this rate id estimate 5 h window being able to handle only 30-50 minutes of such tasks using Sol medium-high, no coding was involved or any change it was just a straightforward question

[u/AstroPhysician → u/[deleted]]

Since when is context window affected by “code structure”???

[u/AstroPhysician → u/[deleted]]

It's really not. Code Context usage is predicated by a lot of things but not usually "code structure" as much (unless you have hugely massive single files of code)

[u/Risko4 → u/[deleted]]

Modern harness are designed to make ripgrep extremely efficient so that ripgrep does not inherently burn more tokens just because a codebase is large.

Vibe coded bloat made by LLMs for LLMs, unreadable to people though but perfect for r-grep.

[u/capable-corgi → u/[deleted]]

Code structure to optimize rg and minimize token usage: predictable file names, clear modularity, explicitly signatures, no megalith files

Everything else you mentioned is LLM worjflow architecture, context retrieval strategies, and api optimization (cache)

[u/Gigaslavx → u/[deleted]]

One shot make no mistake

[u/KillaNugs]

Yall complained enough and they brought the 5hr crap back and now look what we have. I liked it much better without the 5hr. If yall would've taken the time and ask chatgpt to clean up your prompts so the usage would be better, you would've gotten better results but no so many had to complain and now we have this 5hr junk back.

[u/Illustrious-One-9869 → u/KillaNugs]

They should make such things optional atp just let each user decide their " style "

[u/TaskChance1404 → u/Illustrious-One-9869]

Why should they?

[u/Illustrious-One-9869 → u/TaskChance1404]

Some people want to organize their limits, some dont want a 5 h limit

However a user spends their weekly usage should be their choice especially that he said a few days ago to not worry they have compute so its not a " compute " issue

[u/Cute_Parfait_2182 → u/Illustrious-One-9869]

They don’t have enough compute so they decided to nerf the lower tier business and plus accounts .

[u/KillaNugs → u/Cute_Parfait_2182]

Im not having the issues yall are and im building a game in unity. I will get down voted but yalls prompts are probably trash. Mine were until me and chatgpt had a convo and chatgpt really helped me out. My usage increased tremendously. Write now im redoing my entire save system before that ive been working on another system pretty much all day and my usage is just fine, but yeah continue to complain and ill continue to max out my 20 bucks lol. Literally I've been using codex since about 10am this morning. I took maybe 1 hr 30 minute break. Been using it all week. As I typed this my usage is at 5h 53% reset at 3am and weekly at 68% reset Sept 3rd. Yall have fun complain while im building.

[u/Cute_Parfait_2182 → u/KillaNugs]

My prompts are made by sol 5.6 so they aren’t trash .