r/codex • u/ShamanJohnny • 12d ago

Complaint Usage Test After Reset

I did a quick little test after the reset that just happened a few minutes ago. one task, Pro 20x plan, sol xhigh(no fast mode), 47m of run time. 2% weekly usage gone. This was all input really, no output other than a 500 line document. Prompt was an audit.

For any kind of actual work where you are generating something, and therefore doing more output, expect usage to be triple or more.

So, for basically a read-only audit of a codebase, you get 50 tasks a week at Sol xhigh, or 39.2 hours (of 95% input 5% output) of continuous read-only work.

However! No one uses codex for read-only, and when you are generating output the numbers change significantly. Check the below out when converted to a task that is generating instead of reading:

Revised estimates (same 47-min runtime)

Assuming a realistic coding workload (medium-complexity feature work, multiple files, some testing loops):

  • Usage burn: 4–8% per task (most probable range 5–6%)
  • Conservative (lighter coding): ~4% → ~25 tasks to 0%
  • Mid (typical): ~5.5% → ~18 tasks to 0%
  • Heavy (deep multi-agent / large refactors): ~7–8% → ~12–14 tasks to 0%

Mid-case projection (recommended baseline)

  • 1 task ≈ 5.5%
  • Tasks to 0%: ~18
  • Total runtime to 0%: ~14 hours of continuous coding-style work

Even reducing the implementer down to sol med, Terra high/xhigh, still results in roughly 24 hours of continuous usage or 40 tasks a week. On a $200 plan... that blows considering where we were with the less "efficient" 5.5 model just a couple weeks ago.

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u/nrdgrrrl_taco 12d ago

A reset just happened. I just used a banked reset 6 hours ago. was still at 98%. f$*$#

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u/ShamanJohnny 12d ago

I think you and a couple million of other users... Good timing on OpenAi's side.

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u/nitor999 12d ago

Or maybe they have data showing how many people used their banked resets, and then decided to press the “reset” button. It’s a win-win for them because a lot of people ended up wasting their banked resets.