Could OpenAI throttle Codex usage differently per user? Redditors demand transparency
Dadideology · reddit · 2026-10-25
A ChatGPT Plus user asks whether OpenAI could be applying unofficial per-user usage multipliers on Codex — draining power users' quotas faster to push upgrades while slowing casual users' burn to make plans feel valuable. Same subscription, same model, same task, different deductions.
- The author stresses this is a hypothesis, not an accusation; the core issue is that users cannot independently verify whether deductions reflect actual compute
- Their own Plus Codex experience has been 'horrendous,' while other users report plenty of headroom
- Demand: transparent, comparable usage measurements if billing is genuinely compute-based
The thread is essentially an industry-level challenge to the opacity of subscription AI metering.
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