❯ Codex delivers on day one of its 28-day pledge: GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol go from 30 to 50 tokens per second for subscribers

Day one delivered speedThibault Sottiaux, who runs Codex at OpenAI, posted on X on October 5: “Day 1,” default speed is about 50% faster for subscribers on GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol, across OpenAI’s products and partners using Sign in with ChatGPT, including OpenCode, Pi, Amp and Devin. He added that speed went from 30 tokens per second to 50. The post has more than 1.6 million views.

The promise made a day earlierThis is the first delivery on the pledge he made the day before: for 28 days, the team will each day either ship a clear improvement relevant to most Codex and Work users or give users a usage reset. The speed-up requires no change on the user’s side and, by his account, takes effect within two hours.

No third-party dataRuntime Wire points out that going from 30 to 50 is actually an increase of about 67%. OpenAI supplied no independent measurements, the figure describes only how fast text streams and not how quickly a whole task completes, and it does not change how much work a user can do before hitting usage limits.

Mixed reactionsEthan Mollick commented on X that the reset approach is weird and makes sense only to a narrow slice of people, while most users expect to plan their usage rationally instead of getting random prizes of tokens. A speed-up is felt by every subscriber and is easier for ordinary users to understand than a reset.

▮ SIGNALDelivering speed first while allowances are being questioned answers a question only heavy users calculate with a metric everyone can feel.