Even though I do plan to move over to alternatives, the ~$20 sub is not only token usage priced in. you have the chatgpt website holding your data, no training on your data along with compliance with privacy laws, the SSO/MFA/etc features a business needs, and they encrypt “data at rest“ in the servers.
Not to mention limited access to gpt pro model.
It is pretty decent, but the codex part is now getting sidelined as a credit system. you should now consider API instead of gpt-codex if you need straight codex-only usage.
just to clarify, to reduce my codex usage, I now have the chatgpt website open and plan out patches and reason over the new changes that codex has made. It is annoying but I simply zip up my folder and add it to the chat.
I still blow through the 5-hour limit in 2 hours, but I get a lot more work done because codex only has to focus on doing the patches that I get from the chatgpt website conversation.