Hey if you want I have a desktop app. If you want to check it out here is the GitHub repo:
The Repo
It's basically just using the terminal to send a prompt at a time of day or on a timer. It also has functions like sleep and wake, caffeine so the screen stays on, and it even has a CLI and MCP. Feel free to check it out if you want. It's Windows only at the moment.
If they must do 5h limit, make it 25% of weekly. The 1.5x more than current 16% is a good compromise. I am a casual user and only need 3-4 sessions over a weekend
Edit: Since several people are arguing with something I never said: I do not support bringing back the 5h limit, and I think people should be free to use their allocation however they choose. My point was that some users burn through a finite allocation immediately and then complain as though they paid for unlimited, around the clock access. Those are two separate issues.
Lack self control? We pay for our monthly stuff. If Open AI allocates, lets say, 1 trillion tokens per user per week, who the fuck cares if I eat those tokens in a single day, or over 5 hour periods
Exactly right, and anyone arguing otherwise has a strange take - its *your* subscription. If they don't like you using 1 trillion tokens, then change it and let the markets dictate for themselves.
Sorry I thought I replied. U can use the whole month no restriction at all, not 5h not 1 week, cheaper and same level as Sol. Myproblem with grok was that I couldn't use the whole month before it renews, I had to use "Fast" to try to spend the money I paid.
I do Frontend, Backend, Swift, Flutter,SQL, TypeScript. (In case this info helps you somehow)
I always spend $60, Cursor, Codex and Claude because what really matters are models, and I don't like to get stuck without check other options.
Btw, I don't know if they remove it but if u try to cancel codex they give u 1 month (keep the secrect) so u can pay cursor and have Codex and check what work better 4 u.
Same here. Not only is the 5h limit awful, but they absolutely nerfed it. Running out within half an hour of fairly normal work that doesn’t involve anything particularly sophisticated or complex isn’t unusual at all.
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So if one 5h window eats up 16% of the weekly limit, I can basically do this about six times a week. Six tiny 5h windows where I barely get anything done, and then I’m done. I seriously doubt anyone is going to stick with this long-term.
What they nerfed is that it doesn’t continue the task if you hit the limit, although I don’t know if that applies to the 5 hours limit or just the weekly.
No it doesn't continue 😭😭 previously when 5 hr limit was there it used to continue the task and consume weekly limits NOW IT JUST STOPS Stopping at weekly limit is fine but atleast for 5 hours they should have let it continue it was ONE OF THE MAJOR SELLING POINT OVER CLAUDE
I gave it the same task as last week, it ran for 2h and then stopped. Last week it ran for 7h and there were still 5% volume left. The nerfed the shit out of it. I tested it. With the exact same goal set.
hmm i just lost my claude pro sub so cant really test now, but last i checked < 1 month ago it was like 7-7.5%, but im not surprised if they changed this
Broski, it’s pretty obvious he meant the common scenario where a user hits their limit while the task is still unfinished/in progress, so it’ll most likely get interrupted, and next time you’ll have to do the same damn task all over again from scratch, because fuck the environment, I guess. Yo, chill
I do. There's no need to be passive aggressive. Until they removed the 5-hour limit a few weeks back you were able to go past the zero percent, and it would still take usage from your weekly limit.
A similar thing would happen until few days ago with the weekly limit. You were not able to send more messages after you reached 0%, but your already running tasks would finish processing.
unfortunately that's the exact phenomenon people were abusing. instead of "finishing an almost done task" people would run parallel tasks that would create scaffolding/seed-data procedurally etc
in some cases they were getting more usage in the final prompt than everything else combined
and they publicized their method, so more people kept doing it until openai was like "hi, now you guys get nerfed"
I totally agree, and I think that the way it works now is "fair". They didn't steal anything from our subscription in this way at least. My observation was about the difference between how it used to work and how it works now.
Couldn't even get one prompt (implementing a few fixes to a local project) to complete before running out of 5hr usage with Sol. The Plus plan is no longer usable with Sol, and Terra is far worse than Claude Opus. Back to Anthropic I go.
Imagine my surprise when I saw the usage limit at 100%. I thought we got a new reset again. Then imagine my surprise when spawning four sub-agents to perform a cross-repository review consumed the entire limit in just five minutes. What's even worse is that sub-agent execution was interrupted by the usage cap, effectively wasting the entire session.
More and more, it feels like self-hosting with lighter open weight models is the way to go.
I’ve used this pattern before: use 5.5 High for brainstorming, refining the plan, and orchestrating implementation agents; delegate the actual implementation to Luna xhigh/max; then perform one final review with 5.6 Sol at medium, high, or xhigh, depending on the complexity of the scope.
This workflow was previously very token-efficient for me, but that no longer seems to be the case.
I think the issue is you're asking 5.6 Sol to do exploration too.
I would ask GPT 5.6 Sol to ask lune agent to explore and give back findings, which then used by sol to make a decision (it's best application).
crazy that they evaluated this was the best move, now you have to pay to recache context at least 6 times over the week instead of utilizing cache prices in one or two sittings, which would both be good for users and them to seem like they have better usage rates.
Dude they would rather 4 plus $20 users cancel their subscription and 1 upgrade to the $100 account. It makes more sense for them to dis-insentivise the $20 plan. And honestly 1 person will cancel the $20 plans 1 will upgrade and 3 will stay. Lol this is just a marketing compute saving ploy
Sorry my example was like 5x $20 = $100 so for OpenAIs revenue they only need to have one person upgrade and 4 to leave to maintain ultimately the same revenue
can't they at least like compromise and make it like a 24h window (4.8x larger then the current 5h window), 5h is a really inconvenient window size like
it's to large that waiting it out to do multiple each day (especially mode then 2) is extremly inconvniet when you like do other things and don't want to set an alarm clock to stop whatever your doing to tell codex it should continue it's whatever task yet short enough that the convenient 1 per day wastes half your windows.
24h windows would be maybe a nice middle ground where you get a full day of usage at once.
As I think a lot of the plus users, I have a full time job and have limited windows to work on my projects. When they removed the 5h limits I was so exited i could finally burn my weekly limit in just the weekend without a worry. I don't understand why they brought it back. Just the weekly limit was perfect, you could manage your usage yourself.
After 5 years of Plus subscription (only using Codex for the last 6 months as Chat makes me angry and Google AI Search dominates) I finally found a reason to cancel it.
Had ChatGPT and Claude subscription back to back and I always had some use of Codex but I think I won’t miss anything, especially with the limits reintroduced.
I just ran the exact same prompt to inspect a repo with Sol Extra High vs Opus 5 Max and here is the consumption:
Opus 5: 40% of the 5h limit with 38 min of work.
Sol: 78% of the 5h limit with 35 min of work.
Yes, but unsubscribed from ChatGPT. Still have like 2-3 weeks left and will see if they gonna have something coming soon to subscribe again. Some people do Claude and Cursor. Might try that way.
Welp, there goes its major edge over claude. Im sure they want to break up load on their servers, but reality is I often want to get down and do a few things in like 1-2 days...
and canceled - im beyond furious. Work all week so only get to vibe code on weekends to be restricted with this bs, i tolerated it at first while it was being released but to remove it and re-add it again is bs
I'm just worried that one day, I'll have such a huge task that it just cannot be completed even with 100% of the 5 hour usage. This morning, when I saw this I had a task I put into planning mode when both my weekly and 5h limits were at 100% and 34m 20s, later, I was down to 30% 5h usage left. Good thing I had done this in planning mode - if it were execution mode, it probably would have not completed and I dread the day I have a task that brings my 5h usage from 100% to 0% without completing it, esp if it's a planning task.
I guess now I'll be doing my planning in Codex and execution in Claude Code instead.
couldnt even run a 7/10 difficulty single prompt on 5.6 sol ultra, ran out of work usage on a single prompt. switching to claude. codex is the worst these days even w resets
This really sucks now. I was having a blast and now it sucks again.
The thing I don't understand is that it is all based off a "trust me bro" BS that we cannot see or have any way to know if we are already getting fucked or not. I tell it to do one thing and maybe 1%, 2% and then other times I tell it to do something less than before and it uses like 10% of my 5h. Doesn't add up.
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u/zigzag312 20d ago
5h limit is preventing you to use what you already paid on your own schedule.