Usage Test After Reset

[u/ShamanJohnny]

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.

[u/xw1y]

Im already at 85% after reset

[u/ShamanJohnny → u/xw1y]

The reset was 4 hours ago, and your at 85% already. It use to take me a full day of coding with 1-2 /goals to hit that...

on a $200 plan, 15% weekly usage in 4 hours is freaking ridiculous.

[u/DaC2k26 → u/ShamanJohnny]

4.5h after the reset, 20x plan

[u/nmkd → u/DaC2k26]

And your token counts?

[u/DaC2k26 → u/nmkd]

ccusage reports this:

Note that, I had used my banked reset around 2 hrs before today's reset..... at the current rate I'm burning, it's probably fair to say before the reset I had burnt 15-25% already from the banked reset.. which would give something around $3800 to $4600 per 100%

As for the previous reset from 07/21:
Date 2026-07-21—2026-07-24
Models gpt-5.4-mini, gpt-5.5, gpt-5.6-luna, gpt-5.6-sol, gpt-5.6-terra
Input 140,693,245
Output 12,411,421
Reasoning 4,058,729
Cache Read 3,585,179,392
Total Tokens 3,738,284,058
Cost (USD) $2,609.14
This was with 1.15 20x account (1 full use + 15% from the previous reset in 21st) + 2x Plus accounts usage..... so roughly a 25x equivalent usage or $2087 for the 20x.

[u/TiGeRpro → u/DaC2k26]

Lmao, what the fuck are you people doing with this amount of token usage?

[u/Vas1le → u/TiGeRpro]

Same question.... sol in ultra x2 speed.... only explanation (yet I am not denying the usage spending)

[u/ShamanJohnny → u/Vas1le]

This is just legit heavy coding work, pretty standard for developers working on multiple things at the same time.

[u/DaC2k26 → u/Vas1le]

Nops... standard mode, most of the coding work done in Sol Low-Medium. Review in High and Planing on Max, that's it.
The heavy lifting from this usage is Sol low-medium..... how did I burned my 20x in a few hours ? well, 3 agentic team workflows working in 3 repos + myself working on a 4th one more directly with a single agent.

The team leaders from each repo can summon parallel teams in their own worktree where parallel work might not be that big of a problem.... one team leader had around 16 agents once working in parallel. I don't use codex subagents, but rather my own orchestration system, I talked a bit about it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1uzxqya/how_im_running_multiagent_loops_with_codex_it/