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title: "Pi folk, there is an issue with compaction in pi that might drain your codex limits faster"
date: 2026-08-25
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Pi folk, there is an issue with compaction in pi that might drain your codex limits faster

There is a 272k token limit after which the API charges 2x for input and 1.5x for output tokens

Issue: https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/6879

@cancelik's extension is a workaround until this is solved upstream in pi: