Two prompts burned a 5-hour ChatGPT coding budget: users hit usage limits fast on $20 plan
SnooSquirrels5535 · reddit · 2026-10-15
A Reddit user reports that on ChatGPT's coding offering ($20 plan, Astra), just two prompts exhausted the 5-hour usage limit — 16% of the weekly credits. The first prompt failed outright; after the model asked a clarifying question and the user retried with extra context, it hit the cap before finishing, so roughly 1.5 failed prompts consumed the whole window. The author says Claude got 10x the work done with the same prompts; screenshots show a Roblox UI fix session cut off mid-task by the usage-limit notice.
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