Codex pricing hits heavy users hard

OpenAI’s help center now frames Codex around token-based credits, not a simple unlimited subscription. Heavy users can hit rate limits or burn through credits quickly, especially with more aggressive modes and parallel work. The joke is really about procurement, not humor: the workaround for productivity is buying capacity. For teams, Codex should be evaluated against hours saved and throughput gained, not sticker price alone. The conversation reinforces that agentic coding is maturing into a real operational spend category.