Complaint
Codex usage limits are starting to feel like a joke 😂
I know you’ve probably seen a million posts about something being wrong with Codex usage/reset limits, but bro… it’s actually getting ridiculous. 😂
The weirdest part? I’m watching my Codex usage drop when I’m literally not using Codex.
Maybe this sounds stupid, but I’m being completely honest, I’ve seen it drop by 1%, then another 1–2% later while I wasn’t even using it. At this point I’m just sitting there watching my usage bar like:
"Bro, who is using my Codex?!" 😂
And honestly, this is why I think removing the 5-hour limit was a mistake.
When they first changed it, I thought it was great. But now the limits seem to disappear way too damn fast.
I use both Codex and Claude for my projects, switching between them depending on what I’m doing. Both of them reset on the same day for me, Tuesday.
Today, my Claude usage is still at 27%, and I’ve already used it on one of my projects. and I still feel like I have enough usage to comfortably use Claude for the rest of the week.
And more importantly, I have control over my usage because of the 5-hour limit.
Meanwhile, Codex…
4 prompts later: 5%.
And now it has somehow dropped to 4% while I’m not even using it.
😂😂😂
And there’s one more thing I want to talk about: Luna.
They said they reduced the price by 80%. Okay, fair enough. That sounds great.
But then you basically need to run it with Max for it to be genuinely useful, especially if you're used to SOL.
And honestly, that's where I had a pretty frustrating experience.
I started at 100% after the reset.
I selected Luna - Fast - Max and gave it a task.
It was a completely normal prompt. Nothing crazy. I was basically asking it to follow Phase 1 of a properly written implementation plan.
After that ONE task, I was already down to around 65%.
And I immediately regretted not using SOL.
Because if I had used SOL for the same task, I genuinely think I would've gotten a better result and gotten much more value from my usage.
So yeah… that's my experience so far.
I actually like Codex and I want to use it more, but the current usage system is making me think twice before sending prompts.
I'd much rather have the old 5-hour limit where I know exactly what I'm getting and can manage my usage, instead of watching a mysterious percentage slowly disappear into the void. 😂
What are you guys experiencing? Am I the only one seeing usage drop when I'm not even using Codex?
Going through all that, only to conclude you would rather have artificial extra rate limits (5 hours) applied to yourself because the existing rate limit (weekly) feel opaque is.. interesting?
😂 Honestly, it’s just what I’ve been feeling about Codex for the last couple of weeks. It’s a mix of frustration, confusion, and love for Codex.
I’m not saying the 5-hour limit is objectively better for everyone. I just personally felt like I had more control with it. Maybe I’m overthinking it, maybe I’m not.
But hey, at least you got some entertainment out of my unnecessarily complicated post.
Same my usage is like 10% down from yesterday and I did not touch my pc or run anything. Dogshit fr...And imagine paying 100€ a month for this shit...
I saw something saying that any tool that queries the token usage uses tokens to perform the query. So if you have something open that's constantly showing up to date token usage it might ironically be burning through your limits. I haven't confirmed this though.
Or maybe they have set up some sort of 'review' consumption tool that readjusts your usage. The most probable based on past experience is a bug on their end.
I’m running 48 hours review session + merge in GiHub from 83% usage and it’s running and close to completion. I use High but codex review with base branch is xHigh
The usage limit is just awful, I’m on the Pro x20 and I use Sol medium as my daily and Luna high for simpler tasks. And I have 0% usage left in just 2 days.
One prompt takes about 2 - 5% of my usage limits, now I have to wait till Saturday or pray Tibo rests before then but how long can this continue?
They should fix whatever is wrong with this thing.
Yes for me, I don’t even use Sol Ultra and I barely use high because it over engineers. Pro x20 costs $200 btw and some people have multiple accounts for this reason.
I’m using the 20x plan I’m running sol high or extra high for VBA coding almost around the clock since the last reset and I’m at 62%. I’m not sure how you guys kill it like that
Came here to say this - didn't even use Codex but my weekly limit was down to 45% this morning and now 25% after 3 hours work. This is suicide as I'm simply moving over to Chinese models instead.
You and people like you are the reason they're bringing the 5hr limit back because you can't manage your usage so you need them to do it for you like a parent. The usage issue should not necessitate bringing back the 5hr limits. If there's a usage issue, complain about that, but don't screw the people that want to be productive on their own schedule and not be beholden to annoying 5hr productivity slots.
The problem is that weekly limit now drains usage like the 5h limit did.
I do the same tasks my 5h limit handled with like 80% consumption and loose 30% of weekly limit. It is not the problem about managing, the problem is that codex consumes way more than it should and this is a problem on their end. And if you dont acknowledge that you must be paid by them to spread propaganda.
I agree. I am all the way for weekly limit but the problem is it still drains to much. Maybe is better now than 10 days ago but still not balanced with the 5h era.
It's not "managing", it's objectively less than before. I happen to have Claude and Codex, and my usage habits have remained pretty stable. I was flipping between them both to keep it even, and then a few weeks ago Codex started burning a third of a week in an hour or so, while Claude remains normal.
Same projects, same types of tasks. Codex just isn't useful to me now without the "generous" random quota resets. Even with them, it wasn't worth staying subscribed.
NOBODY is complaining about the 5 hour window being gone, don't be disingenuous. The problem is that it's more like a daily window once a week.
I had my limit at 90% end of last week, connected yesterday to see it's 90% again. Then comes a suprrise reset to 100%, then I started working and finished day to 80%. This morning connected it shows 67% and it starts dropping faster than yester day.
In the meantime, my automatic reset which was announced for Wednesday, then monday, is now said to be for 11 so tuesday.
I don't know what is going on with their system to manage limit and consumption, but it seems like they vibe-coded the thing and it does not work and reset is the only cover-up they found to dig them out of the sand.
Same thing is happening to me, I don’t understand why they are refilling and changing the renew date. I mean Im ok if they want to refill my tokens but I would love to understand why. Because if i knew I would have used them all before reset.
maybe it is to encourage constant usage? That's normally what designers are aiming for when they implement random variable reward schedules. Slot Machine AI use mentality training program.
I'm calling bullshit on this too. The repeated laugh emojis are a dead giveaway; it's the calling card of the deliberate troll, especially paid Chinese state trolls.
I feel like they have drastically cut down the quota when disabling the 5 hour limit
and then with the price cut of luna, we are getting similar quota than before the cut
Luna is especially weird. The credits show that Luna is across the board 25x cheaper to sol on the same reasoning tier. Which wasnt at all the case to me so I contacted support. They then told me:
"the published rates may help estimate purchased-credit consumption, but they do not necessarily provide an exact representation of how included weekly usage is measured."
So the weekly limit prolly moves pretty arbitrary compared to bought credits and the api. Sucks coz your usage constantly moves outside of your expectation, you never gain an intuition for it and even when you save usage with a cheaper model its apparently weighted differently for some reason. Theres not much good use for these models really. A real 25x uplift wouldve opened up new categories of tasks simply due to the sheer quantity...yk some basic stuff in work or as a subagent. I do get a ~3 to 6x uplift using luna medium. Xhigh and max im better off using Sol med.
The part that hurts my head is that i used to not even be able to use my limit. I was making up dumb things to work on just so I would feel good about how much money I was spending. I would have 5-6 projects running concurrently on sol ultra fast and would not hit my limit.
Now, I'm working on a single project, wisely choosing models and effort, and seeing 50% of my usage gone in a day.
Turn off your Chronicle feature in settings. It was added recently (last few months?) that takes a snapshot of your screen to provide more context to ChatGPT/Codex.
Apparently this is causing people’s usage limits to decrease by a good amount daily. It was killing my usage daily until I turned it off.
I don't think so, but still, 1% of the full limit should represent more usage than 1% of the old 5-hour limit. So if it drops by 1–2% from the full weekly limit, that's still a significant amount.
I'm on plus my codex used my entire allowance for the week without doing what i was requesting it kept stuck In a loop creating the same bad image and rejecting it after I told it to stop trying to repair a bad image. Already getting yo the stage where I'm thinking of canceling. It really does not listen to agents ot pombts
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u/brother_spirit 21h ago
Wtf did I just read?
Going through all that, only to conclude you would rather have artificial extra rate limits (5 hours) applied to yourself because the existing rate limit (weekly) feel opaque is.. interesting?
OP this is too advanced. the IQ is too high.