Comment by rimliu
13 hours ago
20 USD tier was useless from the start. You'd get to the limit in 30 minutes. Codex with 20 USD on the other hand...
13 hours ago
20 USD tier was useless from the start. You'd get to the limit in 30 minutes. Codex with 20 USD on the other hand...
Give Codex a month or two and it'll just do the same thing, though now with a million more users because Claude Code wasn't good enough.
OpenAI has been doing the same thing gradually. Codex launched with generous Plus limits, then they introduced the $100 Pro tier, and Plus limits have quietly tightened since. With the same repetitive tasks I was running, consumption is noticeably higher now for the same output.
The pattern feels deliberate — make the $20 tier just uncomfortable enough that power users upgrade, without officially announcing the reduction. If it continues, $20 buys you a demo and $100 buys you actual work.