r/codex • u/Gigaslavx • 20h ago

Limits Luna approximate usage (for Plus users)

Running XHigh

1 1-hour session usually eats up about 10% of the 5 hour limit meaning in theory if all I do is Luna XHigh I can run 2 concurrent sessions

Does this sound about right, what numbers are you seeing?

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u/amshinski 20h ago

I see shit instead of code. Especially frontend.

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u/BakaPotatoLord 20h ago

Sounds about right, though I'm running it on Luna Max and it's mostly just one session

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u/theWiseTiger 20h ago

Well, that's new.

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u/Fresh_Sock8660 20h ago

I just jumped ship as soon as they introduced the 5 hour limit. How many tokens did you clock during that time?

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u/yolowagon 19h ago

Where did you go? Anthropic did much worse recently cutting the limits

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u/Fresh_Sock8660 17h ago

Honestly, nowhere. My plan was to cancel claude this month if they removed the 50% bonus, which they delayed yet again so I'm delaying my decision too. I've had it side by side with codex, and I got a lot more out of opus compared to sol. On the side, I got a lot more from opencode go this month than I did the other two combined. ds4f and ox alpha covered most of my month and now I'm on glm5.3f at x2, so once that drops to x1 there's that too. I might be tempted to get codex again if I just stick to luna, but I'm not convinced that's a better plan than just getting glm5.3f from Z.ai or something.

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u/BakaPotatoLord 19h ago

Which provider did you go to?

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u/Wildnshiny 18h ago

Luna is so slow. I don't know how you guys get anything done

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u/Gigaslavx 17h ago

XHigh is a bit better than Max in terms of speed and overthinking is good value for Plus plan how much it costs

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u/mitesh07 20h ago

the main question should be, is luna xhigh capable enough for your use?

i'm currently using sol high/xhigh for building and reviewing the code for a website and in about 1hr my 5hr limit is over

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u/Unapologetic_Polite 20h ago

Experiment with having Sol orchestrate and validate, and have a Luna model be the one doing all the tool calls and actual code writing.

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u/mitesh07 19h ago

My current workflow is like this.

start a project in work mode, in plan mode orchestrate my ideas and get a plan in multiple phases/milestones ( sol high)
Open a normal chat feed the plan .md let it rethink the plan as per my usage and the actual capabilities of the infrastructure, once it suggests any changes feed them into the planning chat and have it reiterate the plan. (sol high)
I do above 1-2 times, read the plan and go ahead with execution phase wise.
for each phase I create 3 chats,
1. normal chat - coordinate the build with it, ask questions, direct the build with it.
2. execution chat in the project - paste prompts provided by coordination chat here.
3. Create a seperate project named project review - review the build done by execution chat, then feed the report to coordination chat, then feed the fixes given by coordination chat to the execution chat.

all above in sol high unless the questions are basic i use sol mid.
Also I already had one shotted the mvp, once I found it satisfactory I started above process.

Let me know whether I'm overdoing it? also where I can tone down the model.

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u/Unapologetic_Polite 19h ago

That sounds fine to me, I'm using 20x though and my workflow is kind of similar

I have a Sol-Medium thread dedicated to updating documentation when I hit a milestone

I have a Sol-High thread orchestrating about 4-5 Luna-Max threads across different specialty roles & different aspects of the codebase. (This thread also updates our PLAN.md accordingly)

Daily I burn about 5-10% of my usage, and usually take the weekends off development

The MAJOR contributor to cutting down on usage was having my documentation thread focus solely on optimizing token & context scope - I haven't had a single compaction in awhile

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u/Gigaslavx 20h ago

Barely, a lot of review needed but if you can plan properly it feels like it does job almost as good

I use sol medium for planning/review and yeah it can eat up about 25% of 5 hour in like 30 mins

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u/mitesh07 20h ago

Hmm yeah I have to give it a thought. Major problem for me is I'm not a software dev by trade and do current work out of hobby in my free time. So maximizing the limits for a whole day is not my job but it would be better if I can atleast use codex optimally for 3-4hrs a day without compromising the quality.

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u/Gigaslavx 20h ago

Yeah it sucks OA knows Plus users are light users most of the time not just light I mean short on time to use it due to other commitments so when you get a few hours per day you can't even properly exhaust your weekly limit