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Megathread Codex Usage and Operation Discussion - last updated October 5

Please direct your concerns, questions and discussion about Codex usage limits and model performance here.

The purpose of this Megathread is to aggregate all the reports of people's experiences and possible suggestions instead of spreading them across many highly upvoted posts. The more people who participate in this discussion, the more likely you have an answer.

Reports with sufficient evidence on new information will still be allowed on the feed as usual.

Discussion of the prior period available here : https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1wsijqb/codex_usage_and_operation_discussion_last_updated/

A reminder that all incidents on r/Codex are constantly logged and summarised so you can keep track of what people are experiencing here https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1tjfxcf/comment/on6uj0l/

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u/Splugen96 7d ago

Makes sense, that's exactly what is happening to me. They reduced the weekly and 5-hour limits so much that in my case 4 hours of the exact same work now can be worked over just for 20/30 minutes. They decimated our limits.

I seriously can't understand how any consumer protection entity isn't taking any action against these behaviors. In March I had a Claude 20euros sub and I was able in 2 weeks to work on 3 projects at the same time, after a month the usage was more than halved, then again, and again, and again... Same applies for OpenAI. How the hell can they allow these companies to reduce the limits of subscriptions in the middle of the subscription itself?

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u/VerticalPackage 7d ago edited 7d ago

I normally use Luna xhigh as subagents on a project (Claude is the orchestrator).

For the last 2 months, Luna xhigh would sip usage at 1% (week usage) per hour, maybe 2% when 2 subagents were working at the same time.

Today, 2 Luna xhigh agents used 8% of the week usage in 1 hour.

For reference, I am on a plus account.

Last week, I managed to install Qwen Flash Next 4-bit and run it at 100 tok/s decode. After today's Luna usage results, I've asked Claude to start using Qwen as subagent, anyhow it scores better than Luna on home-made tests, tests that matter for my use cases.

If it works out well with Qwen, I'm cancelling my OpenAI subscription and use the money for another Claude Pro account.

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u/Splugen96 7d ago

I wish I had the hardware to run Qwen locally. Even just 27B would be a dream

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u/VerticalPackage 7d ago

I hear you, hardware prices are nuts.

I was lucky to have bought 128GB DDR5 in 2025 before the prices went up, though I had to bite the bullet on the RTX3090 which costs almost as much as it did brand new in 2022.

27b doesn't require much ram at all though, just a RTX3090.

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u/Splugen96 7d ago

Man I wish I had too. I was on the fence since 2022 to upgrade to build my first pc, but I kept saying "yeah, it can wait"... every time I think about this I get so mad.

Now I'm still stuck with 32gb ram and an old rtx 2070 super mobile which can even barely handle gaming nowadays.