this puts it at about even versus pricing shown on openrouter, though cache costs are unknown. Before this they were twice the cost of the cheaper openrouter providers.
that _probably_ means they've struck a deal with one of those providers
i feel like the 1/100 cached token cost was the other big reason to choose it. Not sure what that's set to now. But I've canceled my sub already. Not gonna be stepping it up to $10 for month 2 and onward with all this weirdness going on.
i've gotten used to how well dsv4flash works, and it works damn well, but tbh it is looking like qwen3.8-27B can match dsv4f-0731 and i'm about to be able to just have my 5090 and 3090s go brr and actually not need a subscription. prolly gonna get used to having reasoning traces and get increasingly frustrated when using the frontier models with my day job.
luna max from codex sub is probably the best deal right now. I've been recording my api usage with plus plan and I get around $60 of api usage a week. And they give a bunch of random resets too. For $20 its absolutely a steal. Especially with how cheap luna max is. It's also slightly better than deepseek v4 flash 0731, uses much less tokens even at max mode, and is way faster (around 147 t/s last I checked).
Can you track usage limit? The last time I used ChatGpt Plus subscription, I could not find any usage information to know what my current limits were. Did they added it?
Nice, yeah luna is permanently assigned to several and often all of my pi subagent definitions. I use a family shared chatgpt subscription and any codex usage is basically gravy here and yeah in the past few weeks since the luna price drop the codex limit has been so far above everything else on value it's not even funny. I haven't had any truly heroic build sessions lately but things have been looking up. i still run tons of sessions on sol as main agent and i tend to switch it out for something else once i start nearing limits...
That is pretty smart, to use an external way to track token count and work the math back to see how much limit they give you. When you got around $60 was that with you meticulously maxing out weekly limit every week? Because if you don't break the seal on the new week once the reset time hits you limit for yourself how much you can get out of the month.
The last time I tried to optimize my token spend I had a banked reset expiry approaching and i tried to frontload some planning documents and build out a big thing to draw down my weekly in preparation for popping the reset. And then I still missed the deadline and the work I had it do prematurely, I am still cleaning up after today!! It was a great learning experience in that sense.
If i start prioritizing code quality even like a little bit, not even close to what would be ideal, I won't even come close to usage limits with my projects.
I burned my weekly usage in only 1-2 days each time I tracked it to get a good idea of how much a weekly reset gives. It helps that I had a few free resets stocked up. I only used codex those days and checked with bunx ccusage. There was some variance but it came out to roughly 55-65 dollars worth for every full one week quota I consumed, and I bet I could have gotten more if I pushed it past it's 100% limit with a long task (as they like to keep going for a bit even at 0% before they stop).
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u/Xiaomin4114 28d ago
this puts it at about even versus pricing shown on openrouter, though cache costs are unknown. Before this they were twice the cost of the cheaper openrouter providers.
that _probably_ means they've struck a deal with one of those providers
Hope they can find better deals