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I used over a billion tokens per day of gpt-5.6 sol xhigh starting last Wednesday through Sunday before reaching my reset limit. The $200 pro plan is still the
by CompoundEyes 1mo ago
I used over a billion tokens per day of gpt-5.6 sol xhigh starting last Wednesday through Sunday before reaching my reset limit. The $200 pro plan is still the best deal.
- jm4 1mo agoI can’t sign up for that. I tried authorizing Codex a couple days ago. For some reason, their system says my phone number has been used for verification 3 times even though it definitely has not. I’ve had this phone number for over 20 years. OpenAI support is useless. They just keep repeating the policy without actually helping me.
- jaggederest 1mo agoGet a burner and use it? If you're spending $200/mo on something, $40 or whatever for a burner phone seems like a pretty cheap price.
- paxys 1mo agoYou can get a phone number online for a few dollars.
- jaggederest 1mo agoHistorically those are less useful because some of the verification systems require a real phone number and that your name is associated with the account, depending on what and how they verify. It's annoying, I use a google voice number as my primary, and it often gets rejected.
- qingcharles 1mo agoGood2Go is $5/mo for a real SIM with unlimited talk/text + 1GB data.
- fireant 29d agoThere are several tiers to these services, some are selling real us phone number verifications at about 0.5usd/text while others are selling virtual phone number verifications at much cheaper. From some limited experience with the former, there is rarely if ever any problems with rejections.
- 63stack 1mo agoOh no fuck that, business 101 is make sure that your checkout page works. There is plenty of competition in this sector, take your money elsewhere.
- weakened_malloc 1mo agoUse TextVerified, load up like $5 of credit and OAI verification is like $1.00. Then when your account is made, ensure 2FA/passkey is setup then you don't need to worry about the phone number.
- stavros 1mo agoThanks for that tip!
- _345 1mo agoYes I filed a support ticket with them and explained that their system is broken and they just did not care. I explained how it was impossible for me to use it 3 times already as I've only made 2 chatgpt accounts EVER, and only recalling entering my phone number for one of the two chatgpt accounts. I told them that this issue locked me out of codex and chatgpt for work and they weren't willing to do anything about it. Totally useless support. I ended up borrowing my gf's phone number just so I could get access for work. Ridiculous
- infinite_spin 1mo agoI have mine churning like butter and I'm rarely hitting a billion tokens per day, what's your workflow look like?
- ramraj07 1mo agoSome people just do crazy stuff. For example this now ex yc guy who said he has agents constantly scanning Sf govt apis and forming dashboards just because
- jimbob45 1mo agoIs anyone hitting caps without agents or API usage? Seems very difficult.
- brookst 1mo agoYeah I am, building large software with a vision - requirements - architecture - plan - code workflow. One Claude max account is enough to work on one, maybe two of those at a time (call it 15B tokens/month per project)
- CompoundEyes 1mo agoPretty basic. The codex app with one conversation per project and several running simultaneously all hours. I’m going for max caching that way and it never gets lost even with compaction somehow. Each has a plan with milestones to keep up to date and a thin agents file. I check in on them in the Remote app. Use case is protocol and control reverse engineering of audio hardware. I think they must be identifying the heavy use agent sessions and cranking up their cache lives so it’s not a big deal for them.
- rpdillon 1mo agoA billion tokens a day is 11,000 tokens a second sustained. How many tokens per second are you getting off of GPT 5.6 Sol per project?
- SJMG 1mo agoA billion a day? How many agents are you running?
- greenavocado 1mo agoThat's wild. I was gonna say 3-5 billion a month is more reasonable summed across all token types.
- _zoltan_ 1mo agowith ultracode, it goes fast. I can easily get to a billion on a busy day.
- ec109685 1mo agoI spent $800 in a few hours when my sub maxed out because I was trying to get something done and had a long car ride to let it churn. Their api pricing is absurdly expensive.
- giancarlostoro 1mo ago> Their api pricing is absurdly expensive. I assume at this point that it subsidizes subscriptions.
- HeWhoLurksLate 1mo agoyes, it absolutely does. I've gotten more work done on a second chatgpt pro $100/mo subscription than I did with ~$150 of paying for usage through the app.
- timClicks 1mo agoSubscriptions are a mechanism to attract developers, who then advocate that their company should use the API.
- qingcharles 1mo agoMassively subsidized. As soon as my Claude switches from subscription to overage I have to tap out quickly.
- skohan 1mo agoThis is a big part of the reason I went local-only. Subscription limits are horrible for having a decent workflow.
- giancarlostoro 29d agoYeah, it sure was convenient that there was a RAM pricing crisis right when Apple was making local inference viable. All because of a promise that AI companies will buy more of it... with money they don't yet have, whereas Apple does have lots of money.
- dyauspitr 1mo agoI’m exclusively using ultra and I run out in 3-4 days consistently. Those resets are great but I’ve noticed they like to cluster them at the start of the cycle, would be better if they spaced them out more.
- IshKebab 1mo agoA billion tokens per day?? Plausible estimates put the energy use at about 0.001 Wh/token, which means you're using 1000 kWh/day in electricity, just to generate slop. That's about the same as 50-100 houses. 300kg of CO2 per day - roughly the same as flying from London to New York every three days. I think on average AI energy usage is not as big a deal as everyone is panicking about, but your usage is truly absurd and I don't know how you can live with that. It's immoral.
- _zoltan_ 1mo ago"slop"? come on. we're not in 2020 anymore, Dorothy.
- Gangway0829 1mo agoI can't speak for that guy, but I'm a physicist and work in clean energy... So it's not too hard! That said, I usually am closer to 10M on days I do heavy coding, so not nearly that bad.
- breezybottom 29d agoTerrifying to think that even physicists can't code their own simulations anymore. We're plunging headfirst into the dark ages.
- Gangway0829 29d agoHave you seen the average physicist code? I've crawled around in the muck of Fortran codes written in 1970 with unreadable 8 character variable names (the first of which encodes the type), with implicit typing, zero comments, computed go-tos, SAVE, the works. Tests? Never heard of it. Bugs everywhere. You would be far less sanguine about physicists coding if you looked into some of the "flagship" codes used today. And believe me, it isn't a "boomer bad" phenomenon. Every incoming student I've had in the last decade writes shit code too. My (only somewhat facetious) opinion is that physicist access to programming languages should be controlled like doctors' access to opiates.
- XCSme 1mo agoI am also on the pro $200 plan, the limit is high enough to do what I want for a week, and binge run Ultra Fast last day to use the remaining credits.