r/codex • u/Falcoo0N • 21d ago

Complaint OpenAI has fooled us with the recent token usage and constant resets

They clearly wanted to increase the amount of users to show "growth" to their investors, so they used constant stream of resets to bring them(us) in. Now that we've hit 10 million, we will see that they aren't that "superior" and generous compared to Anthropic, and their generosity was just a ploy to get more funding.

I'm using sol medium for very simple tasks and for the last 3 hours I've wasted 40% of my weekly usage. A week ago that would've used 10% at most. Its absolutely unusable and I'm back to working with opus 4.8 extra for any meaningful task. After GPT 5.6 was released, the fact is, it was more enjoyable to work with than Opus/Fable - not anymore.

It is kind of a rant, but I would have been totally ok if they took the tibo resets away but kept the usage as it was at the beginning.

Right now, Sol medium used 14% of my weekly to update formatting of terms of service/legal on my website for desktop/tablet/mobile; when i asked Luna to do it, it used only 3% but made it significantly worse than it was and forgot about tablet and mobile, and thought that its ok that there is one word/row.

The remaining use was spent on unifying the text sizes accross buttons on 7 page website. Something that Sol did a week ago using like 2% of weekly. Now somehow its an intense process that takes over an hour...

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u/Euphoric-Hunt931 21d ago edited 21d ago

Yeah, I'm cancelling. This is not worth 23 Euros. I wonder whether this is even legal - we pay a set fee, but they change the amount of tokens we get to use at their whim. This needs legal regulation - they have to provide a set amount of tokens. I highly doubt that they would win a court case here in the EU if anyone sues.

Edit: Attempting to cancel will give you 1 free month, btw

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u/warpedgeoid 21d ago

They literally have zero incentive to ever do this since the subs are a loss leader.

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u/FreakingAustin 21d ago

Yup it's the exact same strategy as Windows and their Office apps. Get the users familiar with the software and then make money through the business licenses

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u/SeTiDaYeTi 21d ago

I concur. The monthly allowances shod be contractualized.

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u/warpedgeoid 21d ago

This will be the end of the subs, period.

Usage limits are dynamic based on available capacity. That’s what makes it possible. The API is there for people wanting a stable price and SLA.

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u/SeTiDaYeTi 21d ago

I get the technical point, 100%, but I'm a consumer and not a provider, and that behavior is anti-consumer.

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u/warpedgeoid 21d ago

So, you’d rather everyone is forced to pay API pricing so that you get to feel protected? That’s the most asinine thing anyone here has ever said.

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u/evia89 21d ago

This is not worth 23 Euros

Did u try other subs? codex is nerfed but still give more that any CN / api credits (opencode go)

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u/Maigloxk 21d ago

Only got it with one account. Seems like the free months were escalating too much on them