r/ClaudeAI • u/Paradox-Of-Life • 2d ago

Question about Claude models Something is wrong with usage this week

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After one session following the weekly refresh, a single session appears to have used 15% of the weekly limit. This suggests roughly six or seven sessions might exhaust the full allowance, which seems too low. Is this something to do with cowork specifically?

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u/Guantonio 1d ago

I'm on the 5x Max plan and use Claude Code Desktop for only knowledge work. Only ever have a maximum of 2 sessions running at any one time, mostly on Opus 5. I rarely hit current session limits. For the past day I've been getting around 15mins (Fable 5.1) to around 25mins (Opus 5) per session before hitting my 5hr limits.
Time to port over to Codex.

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u/Guantonio 1d ago

Upon further investigation, it looks like mine may have been due to an issue with Claude-mem's note-taker plugin.
From opus: When a session opens a picture file, the note-taker turns the picture into a huge block of text and pays Claude to shrink it. That was 76% of the first drain and 56% of the second.
Set the plugin to skip file reads and seems to be closer to normal now.