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  "title": "One Codex task used over 70% of my 5-hour limit in about 20 minutes — is this normal?",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1uu2gc5/one_codex_task_used_over_70_of_my_5hour_limit_in/",
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  "upload_date": "20260712",
  "published_at": "2026-07-12T02:06:18+00:00",
  "transcript": "https://preview.redd.it/grgv92q9ipch1.png?width=1278&format=png&auto=webp&s=6e3d14f762482096f416e5ba290bc731a78a9e7e\n\nI started one Codex task with nearly all of my 5-hour allowance available. It ran for around 20 minutes, edited five files, used the browser, and ran some commands. When I checked again, I had only 23% left.\n\nI was using 5.6 Sol Extra High. I know usage is based on compute and tokens rather than literal elapsed time, but consuming over 70% from one task seems extreme.\n\nHas anyone else experienced this, or is this expected for Extra High reasoning tasks?\n\n\n\n--- Top Comments ---\n\n\n[21 upvotes] I've stayed away from Sol for this exact reason. I've used it twice, and both times, it did a phenomenal job, but usage hit its limit in less than an hour (mind you I was using high). I switched to Terra, and, with far more detailed prompting, same thing happens. I didn't have this much trouble running 5.5 Extra High for the majority of my prompts, and, since Terra should be half the cost, you'd figure that the same result would exist while using half the usage. Maybe I'm not understanding things (not a SE, just a bored millennial), but, I agree, something feels wonky with usage:task performed \n\n[15 upvotes] How big were those files were 3D files images and still like that? Seems that you might be asking a lot from it so it needs to use context. How many lines in those files? \n\nBecause it’s five files doesn’t mean anything your files could have 30000 lines each ?\n\n[8 upvotes] That's normal. A single session lasting about 20-30 minutes consuming the entire 5-hour time limit is a frequent occurrence for me over the past two days, even though I've carefully configured the subagents, mainly using Luna, \\`fork\\_turns=\"none\"\\` to avoid sharing context, and Sol high as orchestrator.\n\n[5 upvotes] This matches my experience with 5.6 Sol High. I'm rebuilding/redesigning an existing website, all the content already exists and we're just updating the design/layout/nav, and I'm burning through my Plus tokens in about 20 minutes. It's a very powerful model, extremely good at planning and adapting, but I'm going to need it to get a part-time job if I'm going to keep using this\n\n[5 upvotes] You set it to \"Extra high\" which is basically the \"use your entire context and token limit\" mode where asking it to design Xs and Os would use 80% of your 5 hour usage.\n\nAt high it's a little more reasonable but still uses a lot of tokens regardless of the task complexity. Still though 9at least as a plus user), the 5 hour limit is VERY restrictive",
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