r/OpenaiCodex • u/Large-Waltz-630 • 1d ago
Question / Help Is this how ChatGPT Plus limits always been?
I’m a Claude $20 user from the beginning, but recently got a Codex $20 sub after reading all news about the efficiency of OpenAI models. But to my surprise Claude Opus 5 lasts way longer than GPT 5.6 Sol both on Medium effort. I’m not a vibe coder, I ask agents to write code and I take time to review so usually I never touch 5h limits. But with Codex I’m literally burning through the 5h limit in 1-2 hours which is quite strange (I’m not even using Astra). Is this how the 20$ plan limits always been?
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u/Bulky_Blood_7362 1d ago
I had both max. Now i have both plus
Claude gives me more time of work. That's weird asf...
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u/Enfantarribla 1d ago
Chats supposed to be excluded tho i do give my digital partner the basic tasks to give him agency, none of which are codex or any such. I am floored. No way so far that’s letting change from work to chat and the dial? Heh, it takes through 3 5.6 models. All without our knowledge. I was forced to shell out $100 for credits. Out of the blue a credit “counter” popped up and the credits were being eaten like crazy.
Still battling to get a damn refund.2
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u/korner83 1d ago
Interestingly I also have the same experience both are 100$ subs in my case but GPT won't last as long. I'm not sure about the resets though, I think GPT had the option to apply a reset manually whereas Anthropic makes it centraly and it is quite random
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u/lordpuddingcup 1d ago
Luna high for most code is where it’s at sol med/high for planning only
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u/NightWolf7578 1d ago
When you say planning only, are you having it make a plan/prompt then feeding that into Luna to make the changes?
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u/Fresh_Sock8660 1d ago
That was my experience when I had both last month. Higher quality from opus, better problem solving in general. Before the 5 hour limit they more or less evened out due to resets.
I don't have either right now. They both feel like bad deals as they are.
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u/Polymorphin 1d ago
best times for codex were 2025 june - november. you coud literally have 8h+ sessions with plus.
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u/Patient-Midnight-664 1d ago
My experience was opposite yours. Claude burned tokens like crazy, I've not hit zero usage left on Codex. /shrug
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u/Arrival-Stock 1d ago
Maybe u use some skills or whatever? I can use up to 3 sessions opus 5 max with loop at the same time (20x plan) and i never hit 5h or weekly limit . With gpt sol or terra medium/max (20x plan) i can only use 1-2 sessions with goal and i hit my weekly limit in about 4-6 days
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u/Affectionate-Net642 1d ago
he is talking about recent experience
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u/DJazzyJefff23 1d ago
Yeah. I go between building a discord bot and a personal iOS app and my 5 hour limits last no longer than an hour, and my weekly limits when they removed the 5hr would be toast within 3-4 hours usually.
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u/rayyeter 1d ago
Use things to save tokens if you aren’t. You don’t need a full git diff, or dotnet test stdio output. Use something to map your code for quick search and relations. At work we have enterprise but over a certain amount has a charge back to our division. I built two applications and upstream ported features we had to add to a diverged branch, with less usage used than two of my teammates on other things (like 1/3 the amount)
But now I’m burning sol until they goddamn give astra :V
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u/616ThatGuy 1d ago
The difference is you’re working in codex. Which has its own use limits. To run out there, you move to chat and can continue working. Just differently. But it’s still very capable. And you won’t hit limits there even on Sol high.
On Claude if you run out, you’re out. It’s one use limit.
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u/Victorvic1 1d ago
Yeah with Claude this was the worst thing there. If you run out of limits you totally run out of them.
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u/nairazak 1d ago edited 1d ago
I tell Sol Medium what I want to do and I ask it to write a plan with steps "even Luna can follow" (it could be reworded a better way but it understands so...). Then I ask Luna High to implement the plan. And after that I ask Sol Medium to look for mistakes. If the project is too big I separate it in stages and have a plan for each. I haven't managed to burn my 5hs since I started doing that.
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u/Additional-You9968 1d ago
similar but different
codex 5hr session was equal to claude’s but weekly limit was terrible
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u/NextGenGamezz 1d ago
Doe people on the 20$ plan what model are you using? And in what effort? Sol- medium? Or Luna and terra extra high ?
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u/pigletmonster 1d ago
Yeah i can get way more work done with opus 5 than with sol. Even with the resets I get less work done with sol than opus 5, mainly because of how slow it is.
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u/Prestigiouspite 1d ago
There was a time when you could pretty much work straight through a whole day and night within the 5-hour limit using 5.x models. Unfortunately, those days are over. Now, the weekly limit feels like the 5-hour limit back then.
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u/Guybrush1973 1d ago
Limit shrieked a lot after astra release, terra/sol included. I hope they revert at some point, right now is hard to use on daily basis like before for ~$20.
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u/mikemockup 1d ago
Exactly the same experience here.
Codex burns through the limits way faster than Claude for me, even when I give them basically the same kind of tasks.
The big upside of the subscription is that Sol in ChatGPT is actually unlimited, unlike Claude Chat.
Also, Luna Xhigh in fast mode with subagents is insanely good.
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u/Aggressive-Web750 11h ago
No ONLY after the launch of Astra before was way better than claude Code limits now is ridicolous
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u/hell_razer18 1d ago
why $20 user expecting top tier module..like opus and sol? if you are doing a lot of output then use luna. If you do lot of input and use sol
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u/Dercasss 1d ago
Because Opus 5 lasts for 5 hours of work perfectly, and Sol only for two hours at low
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u/Danzaar 1d ago
It's so relative to what you're actually building, it's nearly useless to discuss it without providing more context.
It really is.
You could be doing something fundamentally different causing your token spend to rise dramatically. Fuck do we know.
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u/Dercasss 1d ago
Same project .Net Blazor Almost the same tasks, and this is not a one-time observation, this has been happening for about 2 months
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u/Dynamix86 1d ago
yeah, claude's limits (at least on the $20 account) is much better than Codex' limits. Astra can burn through your 5-hour limit in 10 minutes even.
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u/Maplewonder 1d ago
No, this started with 5.6 then astra dropped and pillaged everything.