Codex 28 · Theme · #2
Accelerated usage burn
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Where OpenAI stands
Reset · Day 18Day 18: Tibo announces a reset, alongside Decisions API GA and unspecified performance improvements ↗In their words
What people said
- Problem
I have to say it ate up my usage super fast so I’m not sure what’s wrong with it
@PromoteABook on X ↗ · 26 Oct 2026
- Problem
I’ve tried using it, and I feel like the usage limit gets used up much faster than with Sol. Or is it because it’s faster, so it consumes usage more quickly?
@PhaisitSirbrsf on X ↗ · 26 Oct 2026
- Problem
ngl, without the fast mode it literally drank my usage like 3-4x faster than Sol and I'm very confused lol. I can't really explain it with cache miss/freshly caching. Because it kept draining in the middle too and maybe got faster in draining.
@mogulbagul on X ↗ · 26 Oct 2026
- Problem
This model eats through my usage limits faster than Sol 🤣🤣🤣—and with worse quality, to boot. Congrats!
@sthomsonpl on X ↗ · 26 Oct 2026
- Problem
I just used 6.1 terra on xhigh for 1 hour with multiple subagents.. It drained my limits faster than what 6.1 sol did with multiple subagents. And it is supposed to be 2X cheaper in subscription? @thsottiaux
@utpaldutta1 on X ↗ · 26 Oct 2026
- Problem
oh wow no terra is way worse at using credits this is literally incredible....is it because it's using WAY too much compute in order to do the task and therefore costing it more tokens? literally at 77% on the 5 hour limit.... and spent 4% of the weekly within less than 5…
@ZotGuard on X ↗ · 26 Oct 2026
- Problem
I'm not usually one to complain but this one burned through usage like fire this weekend..
@auvieapp on X ↗ · 26 Oct 2026
- Problem
Damn somehow burned through my usage in 4-5 hours. Ultra but still
@cudaqexe on X ↗ · 25 Oct 2026
- Win
I successfully developed a complete project using 6.1 Sol Ultra Fast, exhausting all 20x quotas before the next reset (within 24 hours).
@144Jackzha22651 on X ↗ · 24 Oct 2026
- Mixed
As much as I’m loving the daily resets… do we get 28 days of improvements or resets in November? I’ve been getting so much work done I don’t think I will be able to pace myself in the future. >burning through a weeks usage on 100 plan in 8 hours
@archieman89 on X ↗ · 23 Oct 2026
- Problem
And again usage is draining way faster. Lost 14% in an hour. And i did not get compression credits yet for the drainage of last week.
@ronaldvdlee on X ↗ · 23 Oct 2026
- Win
我的天呐,太慷慨了!你昨天给他重置,我都还没有跑完,还有40%,我还没用完呢,紧接着立马又一个重置过来了,我的天呐! 但是我感觉我每天的消耗量都到60%了,也幸好你这重置来了,不然的话,我感觉我现在的Pro账号,两天就要用完一周的量。
@DDdxx666 on X ↗ · 23 Oct 2026
- Problem
I burned 🥵 on Astra Ultra fast for a big website project and it ate 50% in 5 hours 🤣🫣
@Haunt3dScotland on X ↗ · 23 Oct 2026
- Win
I was like "wait i got to burn my whole cap in 8 hours? " But with non stop fast Astra xhigh it was possible. Thx for reset it landed oly st tibo giver of tokens reseter of limits
@MagicoSen on X ↗ · 23 Oct 2026
- Problem
I used an entire week's worth between yesterday and today. Something is seriously wrong here. I haven't had this sort of issue before. Paying $200 per month for 4 days worth of usage isn't worth it to me.
@Jeff_S_Hatton on X ↗ · 23 Oct 2026
- Problem
How is it possible to eat through 40% of promax weekly usage in 3 hours with a single task not using ultra fast? I honestly don't understand this at all. I got some free credits earlier this week due to some kind of misconfiguration that was 'fixed', but it's worse since.
@tcgsimon on X ↗ · 23 Oct 2026
- Mixed
I heard about it around 4am PT yesterday and used it heavily for four hours, burning through about 64 hours of Pro 5x quota. Still got 90 left—let’s see how much I can burn through before the reset
@EastonJiang05 on X ↗ · 23 Oct 2026
- Problem
its impossible to use now. running one thread & 40% gone in 4hours of 200$ usage really impossible to use i think i am switching to Opus 5.5
@apple_eyessss on X ↗ · 22 Oct 2026
- Problem
just exaused the 200 usd/mo usage with 4d and 16 hr left... something is not right...
@fspasqualini on X ↗ · 22 Oct 2026
- Problem
it seems like since I upgraded to $200 plan 2 nights ago my weekly limit just crashed in 2 conversations!! something is really wronnggg as it seems upgrading midsession does not update the actual weekly quota to the new subscription... PLEASEEEE fixx thisss..or issue a refund..
@amogh2026 on X ↗ · 21 Oct 2026
- Problem
Hi Tibo, I’m on the 200 plan, but I used up the ASTRO model in only 6 hours. I strongly suspect that I wasn’t actually given the 200 plan.
@MgqZqsjvjBMUb3g on X ↗ · 21 Oct 2026
- Problem
I burned through my $200 so quickly. why?
@Lilt558 on X ↗ · 21 Oct 2026
- Problem
on a 100 plan. drained 99% on normal usage in less than half a day!? and i have not received any emails
@kingwaihenry on X ↗ · 21 Oct 2026
- Problem
Why is my $200/month plan's usage draining so fast? I just upgraded from the $100 plan to the $200 plan.
@N1neE1ght on X ↗ · 20 Oct 2026
- Problem
starting from Sunday , my 100 usd plan only can run for 1 day! In the past , same model can sustain for 2-3 days. But I do not receive anything from you. Your helpdesk is also not approachable.
@LeoYaoTrading on X ↗ · 20 Oct 2026
- Problem
Whatever has been done to Usage has fried it! I’ve just burned through 2 Premium Seats in less than 3 hours! This is Unusable
@PhDNetworks on X ↗ · 20 Oct 2026
- Problem
I switched to the $500 plan and I’m getting way less usage. I used to be able to make it most of the week. Now I’m down to 1 day at most. Codex cooked 30k tokens and a full rest on one GPT 6.1 Ultra at standard speed on one chat.
@SnaggleToof on X ↗ · 20 Oct 2026
- Mixed
only one day for a week pro200
@hqLex6S9t1gFxCZ on X ↗ · 20 Oct 2026
- Idea
I burned through 100 percent of your reset overnight. granted, i got some badass amount of work done, yet, I have gotten a badass amount of coding done before and it didn't use 100 percent of my weekly tokens overnight. Can we get another reset, please? I promise to use wisely
@LanceMungia on X ↗ · 20 Oct 2026
- Problem
Could it affect users who upgraded on Sunday from the 200 to the $500 plan? My 500 plan usage drains faster than my 200 previous plan.
@silvatechbz on X ↗ · 20 Oct 2026
- Problem
My usage quota is being used up much faster now—at least twice as fast as before.
@ferp4eyin on X ↗ · 20 Oct 2026
- Mixed
I just reset my 5x Pro half a day ago. The good news is that I've already used nearly 50% of my quota. The bad news is that I used 50% of my quota in just half a day.
@xdhicloud on X ↗ · 20 Oct 2026
- Idea
Tokens are burning at 4x the normal speed, maybe look at that too?
@my_sweet_burner on X ↗ · 19 Oct 2026
- Problem
先週末のリセットから急に消費スピードが増しました。 体感で四倍程度早く消費しています。これではリセットの意味がありません、、、、
@bakuchyan on X ↗ · 19 Oct 2026
- Problem
Sol keeps spawning agents in Ultra mode, and it's burning through my tokens like crazy.
On Rantr · day 15 · 19 Oct 2026
- Problem
Something major broke in the last few days as my weekly usage pretty much got consumed in a few hours with MUCH less work than usual. And mysteriously all the analytics are unavailable from 13 October onwards.
@mulderpf on X ↗ · 19 Oct 2026
- Problem
It doesn’t matter. One thread drained my usage 60% of week on 100$. This is joke.
@ejazkarimhunzai on X ↗ · 19 Oct 2026
- Problem
Something went wrong yesterday and usage was eaten up incredibly quickly. Widely reported.
@NellWatson on X ↗ · 19 Oct 2026
- Problem
Mine 6.1 sol usage confumed 100% of usage limit in 6 hrs
@riwajrise on X ↗ · 18 Oct 2026
- Problem
Actually, this seem to made it consume more usage. I prefer how it was before
@3esmit on X ↗ · 18 Oct 2026
- Problem
same thing happened to me, I can’t believe a luna max with fast mode can burn my 5h usage in 5 prompts, last week it felt unlimited 🤯
@ErwannRousseau4 on X ↗ · 18 Oct 2026
- Problem
Things have objectivly got worse after this I have never seen usage drain so fast
@BrendanPlayford on X ↗ · 18 Oct 2026
- Problem
usage got very very bad - 2 weeks ago i was running 3 days sol 6.1 and and i was on 50%- now 12h and im in 15% it gotten very very bad - even the limits on Atrophie are better
@VitjaInnovates on X ↗ · 18 Oct 2026
- Problem
My usage quota has been dropping abnormally fast over the last three days. Pro ran out of quota in just a couple hundred hours, making it completely unusable.
@vCOn0GTVV831 on X ↗ · 18 Oct 2026
- Problem
用Astra建立一個簡單的sites網站,燒了我70% 5h limit的token,看不出來有何進步
@pW51yCWwTXC6FNV on X ↗ · 18 Oct 2026
- Problem
Really tbh unless 6.1 sol has gotten 25% quicker i feel like im going through my usage way quicker.
@rhett206564 on X ↗ · 18 Oct 2026
- Problem
Same here. Got 90% back after the “reset.” Two images through Codex later, only 36% left. OpenAI fixes one thing and breaks five more. Absolute amateurs. At this point, Tibo’s “improvements” have managed to make even the $20 plan unusable. From $200 worth of value down to $0.…
@VinCashmore on X ↗ · 17 Oct 2026
- Problem
Apparently, the limit is spent faster (I ran out 30 minutes ago)
@gastoncapital on X ↗ · 17 Oct 2026
- Problem
Absolutely pissing through usage using Sol 6.1. Token usage nearly tripled.
@GaysThatAre on X ↗ · 17 Oct 2026
- Problem
Did they change something with 6.1 Sol? 2 agents running for 30 minutes and already down 13% on the $100 plan. Never burned through it that fast before.
@big_mikky on X ↗ · 17 Oct 2026
- Problem
I already said this in another post, but I’ll say it again: after the last two Codex updates, model usage limits are literally broken. Usage is draining insanely fast, even with GPT-6.1 Sol and 5.6 Sol.
@StudioDM240326 on X ↗ · 17 Oct 2026
- Problem
Basura gaste 25 por ciento de uso con una sola tarea en 10 minutos, este es el peor de los timos
@JorgeHu62669300 on X ↗ · 17 Oct 2026
- Problem
Two 6.1 Sol High Chats are literally melting my codex usage % by the minute. Please fix!!!!
@sen_partho50106 on X ↗ · 17 Oct 2026
- Mixed
These are quite the improvements man, blew through half my weekly in a couple hours. Hopefully you fix this. I am not going to use a banked reset because what am I going to get, another solid 3 hours in?
@dosmacc1 on X ↗ · 17 Oct 2026
- Problem
나도 똑같이 prox5 요금제의 코덱스 사용량 51프로가 몇초만에 0이 되었어 나만 이런게 아니네 어찌보면 다행이야
@smail411123 on X ↗ · 17 Oct 2026
- Problem
That didn’t work Nuked usage hard
@1984_is_today on X ↗ · 17 Oct 2026
- Mixed
btw with my logs this is unequivocally wrong -- my log tracker says (after I applied a reset), this is Sol 6.1 only btw, not Astra: And you’re burning through the fresh window faster than anything I’ve recorded. 45% in the 13 hours since that reset — 3.4%/hour, 81.5%/day. For…
@vanveluwen on X ↗ · 17 Oct 2026
- Problem
I'm experiencing the same issue, and I've also noticed that my usage limits are now being consumed approximately 2–3 times faster than before.
@Epythymyyy on X ↗ · 17 Oct 2026
- Problem
Still draining usage limits, I think is worst now 🥲
@ccomparanv on X ↗ · 17 Oct 2026
- Problem
Your improvements have destroyed usage, I've burnt through two resets in 24 hours and im using 6.1 medium. So improvements is an utter joke.
@obsoletepointer on X ↗ · 17 Oct 2026
- Problem
There is something wrong with usage, two 6.1 Sol Light fast sessions are consuming my Pro 500 sub at a 10%/30 min.
@FerCuevas_27 on X ↗ · 17 Oct 2026
- Problem
Just bought into the 200 tier from the 100 tier and the usage increase is 1.5-2x at most, not the 4x as advertised. What is going on with the usage rate? How can a 200 dollar tier get used up in one day when only using sol 6.1 on high?
@LumoriaSound on X ↗ · 17 Oct 2026
- Problem
something mightve been broken. before this "improvement" 5h usage wont run out on heavier tasks. but now, it's gone in 2-3hours with simple requests.
@Cryptowatch01 on X ↗ · 17 Oct 2026
- Problem
I hope so the $200 plan with absolute moderate usage is basically lasting two days now..
@MattiaRasulo on X ↗ · 17 Oct 2026
- Problem
This update caused by usage from 93% left to 0%. Had to use a reset and now usage is draining faster then before. Clearly, this is not an "improvement".
@mfirdaus_azizi on X ↗ · 17 Oct 2026
- Problem
Man.. really.. 13 minutes of GPT6.1-Sol in a (really) small work.. This is wrecked, bro.
@AdilsonRabeloJr on X ↗ · 17 Oct 2026
- Problem
Dude usage is way worse today, drained my weekly usage within hours of light use… now it’s eating up my credits, we can’t work like this Tibo!!
@mikeswarms on X ↗ · 17 Oct 2026
- Problem
Dot burning a weeks usage in 37 hours using 5.6. Models constantly unavailable. What’s going on over there? Are we working on making this more efficient? Increasing usage?
@AdamMurday on X ↗ · 17 Oct 2026
- Problem
bro I was really hoping for a reset.. Maybe it's just me, but I've been BURNING through usage lately! 😔
@RaptorBroz on X ↗ · 17 Oct 2026
- Problem
지금 정반대로 갑자기 사용한도가 삭제되는 사람들이 나타나고있다. 아에 아무런 작업도 안하는중에도 70퍼센트의 한도가 삭제당한사람들이 생기는데 대체 무슨짓중인거지? 이렇게 사용한도가 제멋대로면 우리는 무엇을 믿고 사용해야하는가?
@tjkill77 on X ↗ · 17 Oct 2026
- Problem
You can literally burn your weekly usage in a day on x20 subscription even if you are not doing anything crazy. This is untolerable at this point.
@rbxLeviathan on X ↗ · 17 Oct 2026
- Problem
早上起来,让 6.1-sol 对昨天的工作 做commit,拆了5个commit,就消耗了5小时额度的17%? 使用量是不是变得奇怪了?
@EverSeenU on X ↗ · 17 Oct 2026
- Problem
My usage is burning much faster now, same workflow, everything, and I mainly use Luna and Sol 6.1 on different reasonings. It’s getting so difficult to work with codex long term now as it’s so volatile. Can’t we get something sustainable for usage please, so frustrating.
@Swiftstick755 on X ↗ · 17 Oct 2026
- Problem
Pro sucks too. 6.1 gets no work done and 5.6 and 6.0 burn my usage in a single day to two days. I used to have to be working 114-124 hours in a week to max out of claude/gpt. Those days are long gone The effective work we get done also has decreased since Opus 4.6 GPT 5.2/3 era.
@breakingbabel on X ↗ · 17 Oct 2026
- Problem
Something weird happened this afternoon. My usage went off a cliff around lunch time.
@InfraOpsAz on X ↗ · 17 Oct 2026
- Problem
pro 500,今天额度跑得太快,感觉和前几天 pro200 差不多甚至不如
@hcsoft1973 on X ↗ · 16 Oct 2026
- Problem
then why’d my usage start getting fucked about 10mins ago, 6.1 sol started eating my usage for no reason??? usd to be way better changed today
@plsgroommeim11 on X ↗ · 16 Oct 2026
- Problem
from the reset i've used the entire $500 plan in a day and a half, no fast or ultra fast? what's up with that? i'm not even doing something particularly intensive :(
@mochiexists_ on X ↗ · 16 Oct 2026
- Problem
WTF is wrong with usage today !?? I wasted my whole weekly 20x usage in less than 12 hours without even getting anything done. No fast mode. No more than medium effort! This fucking company man.
@so_fact_up on X ↗ · 16 Oct 2026
- Problem
Yeah yeah, but now the usage is broken again, 6.1 sol is ULTRA slow and spend all usage due the long time to complete tasks …
@Yanki3l on X ↗ · 16 Oct 2026
- Problem
Is it convenient to deal with the problem that today's quota usage is too fast? I stopped halfway without finishing anything.
@liurentian1314 on X ↗ · 16 Oct 2026
- Problem
I used up 90% of my usage last night, whereas it usually lasts at least two days. I feel like it was secretly changed.
@D_RAGON2037 on X ↗ · 16 Oct 2026
- Problem
I have never seen my usage go down so fast on the $200 plan with 6.1 Sol.
@Matt33211034 on X ↗ · 16 Oct 2026
- Problem
Same thing from me. I didn’t even do that much and ran Claude as my primary driver and I’m down to 15% on the grabdfathered $200. @thsottiaux something weird is up today with usage. I live in codex and it’s different
@hantla on X ↗ · 16 Oct 2026
- Problem
usage burn is crazy today. burned 2 resets.
@justNickB on X ↗ · 15 Oct 2026
- Problem
you just wasted 25% of weekly usage
@eugeniyoz on X ↗ · 15 Oct 2026
- Problem
Usage halved drains tasks 2 x faster fuck this
@asap_or_never on X ↗ · 15 Oct 2026
- Problem
hmm... this one didn't last long, seems like 6.1 on max burned through the quota much faster today 🤔
@kobol_909 on X ↗ · 15 Oct 2026
- Mixed
Lul I caught the message within 16 minutes. Managed to burn at from 60% to 17% in the hour before it reset
@Ferranser_ on X ↗ · 15 Oct 2026
- Problem
Usage is fuqed again, burns tokens way to fast
@GregBetti on X ↗ · 15 Oct 2026
- Problem
YUP. I used to struggle to use my usage quota but now i'm using 50% on Sol5.6 High in a day. Not good.
@The_Smokey_Pot on X ↗ · 15 Oct 2026
- Mixed
I do appreciate the heads up on timing. Burned through over 50% of my usage once I saw your tweet. Knocked some stuff out with Astra high and very high on 1.5x speed.
@BuiltByWords on X ↗ · 15 Oct 2026
- Mixed
Wait is that why I'm running out of credits so fast but seeing massive improvements which would of taken me longer. It just felt like my credits were spent faster? Are you storing it on your end though and processing it first or pieces then combining? If yes what do you do…
@HALtheBOT2001 on X ↗ · 15 Oct 2026
- Problem
Unrelated(?) but, on Pro, I just lost like 35% of my weekly usage between closing my laptop, driving an hour, and checking back in. It would be great if I could see what's eating my usage so fast... I went from about 50% to 11% in no time at all and accomplished nothing... ugh.
@RWCantel on X ↗ · 14 Oct 2026
- Problem
man, slow and limits at the same time is a rough combo :( my guess is people running a few agents in parallel still burn thru it even at that speed
@dusangran on X ↗ · 13 Oct 2026
- Problem
lol got me the same way. I was down to 70% usage expecting another 2 hours so launched a bunch of parallel tasks and now its just burning up the new usage like a mf
@LotMode on X ↗ · 13 Oct 2026
- Problem
I can clearly feel that my Pro limit is being used up faster than last month.
@ZHUILUO2 on X ↗ · 12 Oct 2026
- Mixed
Tibo’s poll is more revealing than it looks. I’m surprised so many people seem to underestimate just how much usage you can burn through in a few hours, even WITH the 5-hour limit. Here’s some simple math. Assuming each 5-hour window gives you 1/6 of your weekly allowance…
@snowy_smile_ on X ↗ · 12 Oct 2026
- Idea
Opus 5.5 swear that they pretty much have unlimited use. I use 6.1 Sol High on Pro 10x (used to be 20x) and lasts me 3 days tops... how about getting us an Opus 5.5 equivalent that can last an entire week if we spend 200 a month on this?
@guillermomarin on X ↗ · 11 Oct 2026
- Problem
I pay $200/month for each of my 3 Pro accounts. Two work fine, but one suffers from degraded model quality, frequent connection failures, throttling, and extreme usage drain. Just 2 hours with 6.1 Sol consumed 20% of my quota, far more than Atra on similar tasks.
@ustcguoyi on X ↗ · 10 Oct 2026
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- Reset · Day 18Day 18: Tibo announces a reset, alongside Decisions API GA and unspecified performance improvements ↗
- Reset · Day 17Day 17: Tibo announces a reset as the Day 17 delivery ↗
- Reset · Day 15Day 15: Tibo announces a reset after saying "we're still cooking" ↗
- Reset · Day 13Day 13: Tibo announces a limit reset as the Day 13 delivery ↗
- Reset · Day 10Day 10: Tibo announces a reset as the Day 10 delivery ↗
- Reset · Day 8Day 8: Tibo announces a global reset as the Day 8 delivery ↗
- Reset · Day 6Day 6: Tibo announces a reset as the Day 6 delivery ↗
- Reset · Day 3Day 3: Tibo loads a banked reset in every paid account ↗
- Reset · Day 2Day 2: Tibo says the reset has been processed after the community poll ↗
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