OpenAI's Internal Juice Budget Reportedly Shifts

johnseach · x · 2026-07-13

This post explains the so-called juice values: hidden internal budgets that dictate how much "thinking compute" a model can spend per request.

• Higher juice allows the model to perform more reasoning steps, usually performing better on complex problems, but it's slower and more expensive.
• Lower juice means faster, cheaper responses, but weaker performance on multi-step reasoning tasks.
• The community often "probes" these values using specific diagnostic prompts, especially within Codex-related environments.
• The post also claims that the maximum juice for GPT-5.6 Sol was recently slashed from around 960 to 128 as part of efficiency optimizations, while Terra and Luna retained higher budgets.

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