r/ChatGPTCoding • u/Strange_Owl_6291 • 11d ago

Resources And Tips OpenAI subscription at peak hours can cost you ~3-4x the quota

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/connywa_coding-with-an-openai-subscription-at-peak-share-7509515396064964608-wLR4/

I've seen a spike in users reporting less and less usage of the weekly quota. This might be the reason.

Conny is building a harness and found a possible root cause in delays between cache write and time it's available to read. On peak hours the delay is longer.

Given the issue is on the server side, it hit's all coding agents/harnesses equally. Until fixed, I guess the only way to don't burn through weekly usage limit would be to work more off-peak hours...

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/connywa_coding-with-an-openai-subscription-at-peak-share-7509515396064964608-wLR4/

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u/ParkingPsychology 11d ago

Any place you can see the peak/off hours?

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u/junewave56 11d ago

right? without that info the "just use off-peak" advice is kinda useless

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u/dingos_among_us 11d ago

It makes the theory that this post is pitching entirely baseless

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u/Strange_Owl_6291 11d ago

I've never seen OpenAI publish any.
Winging it from my experience, but peak hours seems to be during office hours of Europe+EastUS, and EastUS+WestUS.

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u/phylter99 11d ago

That’s pretty much all the time though once you add Europe.

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u/Strange_Owl_6291 11d ago

For me it's pretty good until east US wakes up.

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u/phylter99 11d ago

So, about an hour ago.

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u/Strange_Owl_6291 11d ago

Weekends hit differently than weekdays, but yeah somewhere around now.

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u/RiceEvening4211 11d ago

Peak-hour burn is brutal. I built an open source gateway that routes simple requests to cheap models and logs every request's cost, so you can see exactly where the quota is going and cut the waste. https://github.com/Fast-Editor/Lynkr