Burkov maxed out Codex's $200/month plan and switched back to Claude Astra
ruslansv · x · 2026-09-16
Andriy Burkov says he managed to top out the usage limits of OpenAI's $200/month Codex plan and is heading back to Claude ("the prodigal son is coming home"). Ruslansv replies that with Astra the same amount of usage only lasts about two days — a telling datapoint on how power users compare top-tier coding model subscriptions and switch between them.
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