I wouldn't be curious to sign up to codex whatsoever these days
These token reset shenanigans are insane
Me: "Can you check this thing?"
Sol: "Of course!"
Me: "Do so then!"
Sol: "Ok, I checked it."
Me: "Aaaaaand?..."
Sol: "I found some verify significant things."
Me: "List them! Actually, you know what, let me just go back to gpt-5.6 this is ridiculous."
OpenAI is promising "the Sun, the Moon, and the Stars". The spirit of P.T. Barnum is doubtless looking on with jaw dropped at what is beyond doubt one of the greatest demonstrations of chutzpah, by some of the greatest hucksters, in the history of the human race.
As for any cost based argument, it is immediately invalid because the cost is something that OpenAI fully controls and manipulates.
1. OpenAI fully controls the user cost for a model, and can set it to where it sits well on the curve.
2. Performance of shrunken models like Sol/Terra/Luna is derived from the level of shrinking (relative to Astra). As such, the size and performance of the model is something that is actively targeted when developing the model. If the performance target for Terra was inappropriate for v5.6, this is no way means that it had to be this way for v6.
Also 6 Astra Mini would be out soon which would be 5.6 Sol pricing?