u/coffeeeweed

A few months back, I completely shifted from cursor and claude to codex. However, i believe the monetization squeeze has now been started. First they changed how codex consumes credits. Now the limits are absolutely horrible. Over that, i can see an option to top up credits in the codex app. Clearly, trends are shifting. It feels Claude limits are now better than codex's.

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This is a transition from customer acquisition to customer milking. I believe in some time, we'll have to keep adding credits, again and again, charges will shoot more than $500 , and still they will want us to keep top ups of credits to be able to use codex.

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This feels like web hosting, they give deep discounts for the first year. Most startup fail, but even 10% succeed, they charge almost 3-4 times more to make up.

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I am hope models like DeepSeek, glm succeed.

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On the 3rd of may, i was working on a project while the birthday offer was still on. At around 6 pm ist, the birthday offer was suddenly over, while the task was still getting executed. The agent was stuck in a loop so the task ran for almost an hour, and cost me around $80. On replit, the ui did not update that the free offer was over.

I did not enable extra usage. I am new to the platform. And now i feel scammed. How do i get a refund for this ? If i was aware of this shady practice, i would have never signed up for a 1 year plan.