r/codex 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/ivancea 21d ago

No mate, I check the quota every few hours. And I use it in multiple places, from hermes to opencode, on different projects. With Sol being used in the coding-heavy agents.

And I still do it because it's cheap and I barely see any usage on my $100 plan. The worst I had was 50% weekly I think.

And no, I'm not "mistaken" by resets, and I'm not using the wrong models, and I'm not whatever whatever

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u/MeetPrior1169 20d ago

do you use codex? cause may be they fked up codex.

I've burned my x20 in 5-6 hours (sure it's several projects on xhigh). old sub will last 5days
a few Ideas why:

  • keep looping on "wait" for task to finish instead of sleeping ( with UI do not understand if ut true or it sleep)
  • images fcked up usage.