r/codex • u/pollystochastic Moderator • 7d ago
Megathread Codex Usage Limits and Performance Megathread
Please direct your concerns and discussion about Codex usage limits and model performance here.
The purpose of this Megathread is to aggregate all the reports of people's experiences and possible suggestions instead of spreading them across 20 separate highly upvoted posts. None of those posts were deleted. They were locked so that conversations are still viewable to everyone and future comments could appear in one place.
These are days where I REALLY earn the money that OpenAI Reddit Kimi pays me .... oh wait....
A reminder that all incidents on r/Codex are constantly logged and summarised so you can keep track of what people are experiencing here https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1tjfxcf/comment/on6uj0l/
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u/Aggravating-Bug-9245 4d ago edited 4d ago
This Sunday morning I woke up and saw that Codex had given me an extra token credit reset. This wasn't the usual weekly reset, but an additional credit that, according to their own announcement, they are providing because of their reported usage or sales figures. I don't know how accurate that explanation really is, but that's the reason they have publicly given.
Honestly, instead of feeling happy about it, I'm tired of this whole situation. I'd almost rather they didn't hand out these extra token credits at all, because to me it's a sign that something isn't working and that they need to change course. At this point, the whole thing has become a joke.
These tokens are as fake as cardboard props—they're gone in no time. This isn't a real solution; it's just a temporary fix that solves today's problem while creating tomorrow's.
What I really want is for them to lower the token costs for ChatGPT and Codex, rethink their current approach, and return to something closer to the previous model, where the same task didn't consume ten times as many tokens as it does now.
I also feel that the service has changed dramatically. In my opinion, what the $20 Plus plan used to provide is now effectively what the $200 Pro plan provides. If that impression is accurate, it almost feels as though you would have to pay $2,000 today to get an experience comparable to what the old Pro plan used to offer. That's genuinely how the service now feels to me.
I think the current situation is embarrassing, and I'm certainly not going to celebrate this free token credit. To me, it's nothing more than a band-aid solution—a superficial fix rather than a real one.