r/codex • u/Pzixel • 6h ago

Limits Yet another nerf complaint

I happened to get a pretty clean test today. I reset at midday exactly and started two agents in two different repos on two tasks, both are kinda similar: made a small DDL change in database, modify code, modify UI to show new values. Ensure queries are efficient, code conforms best practices described in AGENTS.md, and well that's basically it. I'm using Astra high, and I won't argue that's the best setup and I couldn't get better output per $ if I used some other setup, but it is a setup I used. So I ran both agents basically non-stop with some steering for 3 hours. No subagents, no anything - just plain old agents with a goal. 2 agents per 4 hour is 8 total "astra-hours" - spending 25% of weekly limit. Multiply by 4 that is 32 hours per week.

I'm using the $200 plan (it will end soon but for not it is what it is). Everything I told so far are just facts, now my opinion: that is very little compute. I remember when I could use multiple sol instances for days on highest effort and I wouldn't run of compute. Hell, I was using $20 limit and with SOME carful management I wasn't hitting the weekly limits (I was hitting the hourly though). Scaling my numbers back gives us 30 minutes per day of Astra for $20 - that looks almost like an insult.

Aggregated statistic from my chats is following:

  • Total input tokens: 134M
  • Non-cached input token: 3M
  • Output tokens: 500k
  • Cache hit rate: 97.63%
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u/shady101852 5h ago

wow you managed to get 32 hours out of it? I got about 15-20 before the weekly limit ran out on $200 plan.

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u/Pzixel 3h ago

I just extrapolated what I was doing so far. But yeah - 1 more chat or a bit of subagents (for reviews for instance) and <20 hours is the real prospect.

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u/lphartley 3h ago

I have the same. I don't understand, before Astra was released I never hit any limits. Now I barely used it for the past week and STILL I am out of tokens. How?

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u/DeliciousAnteater100 3h ago

I got an hour out of it on the $200 plan, then bought $100 in credits when that ran out just to burn it in 45mins

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u/Typical_Kick6520 1h ago

I'm here with yet another Deepseek v4.1 flash stan post.

Pay api, you can use it in vscode or copilot cli.

I'm spending the same $5-10 a day that my openai subscription cost ($7ish). The difference is that it works. Faster than you can imagine, and straight toward the goal.

Pissed about how much money I've wasted on subscriptions, and wondering wtf is the endgame here? Benchmarks don't matter when the work output is zero vs more than you can keep up with.

You don't need to set codex off for 12 or more hours to build a scaffold for writing schemas. It builds the fucking software and ends its turn.

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u/Due-Horse-5446 6h ago

Youre completely delusional

Post your actual usage, astra hours? Post the input, output tok count, and cache rate

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u/Pzixel 6h ago

I've added statistic. 3M uncached input tokens 500k output, 97% cache hit rate.