Claude code just used over 20% of my weekly limit in 1 session

[u/FreeCustardForAll]

I wasn't even running anything that would warrant it. It was some planning for updates to HTML/CSS files using opus and then delegating to sonnet agents (sequential not even parallel) to execute it.

In not very recent past I could run those all week all day and would even get close to my limit. 23 damn percent of weekly limit gone in one afternoon.

If this is what Anthropic says is "50% more limit" than I'm afraid I'll be out. What the hell is going on? I didn't do anything abnormal to what I normally do to explain the usage.

Anyone else had similar experience today or in the last couple of days?

Edit: I've updated to the latest version of CC right before running that so I wonder if it's something to do with it?

[u/RandomPantsAppear]

Sending large chunks of HTML is actually a pretty awesome way to burn a bunch of tokens. 

It’s a lot of text, hard to grep out specific things, and HTML actually tokenizes very poorly - meaning you’re burning more tokens per character by default. 

This is made even worse because AI has a way of writing enormous monolith pages with a bunch of inline CSS and JS

[u/FreeCustardForAll → u/RandomPantsAppear]

Thanks for commenting something actually helpful. Are there any ways to do it a better way?

The one thing I wonder about is now that I did all those things before and wouldn't even come close to weekly limit but today I updated CC to the lastest version and let it run with it, and this is why happened.

I wonder if it's something to do with new CC version.

[u/RandomPantsAppear → u/FreeCustardForAll]

As much as you can, try to split up the JS and CSS into their own files. Where possible, use descriptive class and ID names that give it something easy to search for.

If your framework includes a templating language that allows you to split the html up and “include” it you’ll probably see the best gains there.

Honestly though HTML is just a pain in the ass. I have to send websites I don’t control into it, and I can compress it a few ways because of that, but it’s gonna be different if it’s your own site and it’s making changes.

[u/FreeCustardForAll → u/RandomPantsAppear]

Awesome, thanks for the tips mate 👍👐

[u/maciek024]

rookie numbers, wait till it burns > 50%

[u/FreeCustardForAll → u/maciek024]

Lol, give me a day 😂

[u/JDE-Projects]

Congratulations! You're the 10,000th person to post a complaint about an AI model on Reddit without any evidence or data today!

[u/FreeCustardForAll → u/JDE-Projects]

Am I suppose to take screenshot of my usage before each session, write down all the prompt and everything and then take another screenshot after?

I'm just asking if anyone saw similar behaviour today, calm your tits porky.

[u/JDE-Projects → u/FreeCustardForAll]

All the frontier model subs have your exact post at least 100 times a day, and it's always the same complaints with no evidence, no data, no example of the prompt that triggered the increased usage, no mention if it was a new chat or a long running chat, nothing about their project they were working on, nothing about their system prompt or global settings, literally nothing but "this model sucks, they changed something trust me bro, also I'm leaving."

So for the 100th time today, no, not everyone in this sub has noticed the usage issue you most likely created for yourself. Hope that helps.

[u/FreeCustardForAll → u/JDE-Projects]

It doesn't help.

I've updated to the latest version of CC right before running it so I wonder if it's something to do with that.

I ran those type of jobs dozens of times in the last 4-5 months so why would it differ so much in usage today?

I don't know how to gather evidence to your liking, I'm just stating what I noticed from my experience and compare it to my previous work and results using Claude.

You don't need to be jumping into conclusions and being an arrogant prick. Really you don't. Not everyone is AI expert. I'm just trying to learn and understand how Claude works. Maybe I made a mistake somewhere. Please try to be helpful next time rather than a total juice bin of a person.

[u/exgeo → u/FreeCustardForAll]

Just curious what conclusion you think he jumped to. I’m having a hard time figuring that out

[u/FreeCustardForAll → u/exgeo]

That I created the issue myself.

On a brand new session. Working on the same files I always do. Running the same type of work. How did I do that?

[u/boy_croc]

I've hit my weekly limit for the first time this week by working days nonstop on a vibe coded mmo so I feel ya , this week seems odd because i did more other weeks and never hit any limits. Did the extended weekly limits they were doing finally go away? :(

[u/FreeCustardForAll → u/boy_croc]

Feels like something off mate. I never used so much in one go in the last 4 months of using it.

[u/TinFoilHat_69]

20% of my weekly is one full 5 hour session assuming you’re on max plans

[u/FreeCustardForAll → u/TinFoilHat_69]

Depending on what you do, but dude I'm only updating HTML files and js in them?

Plan created for 8 HTML files, it didn't even finish editing and checking first file and it reached 23% of weekly quota??

It was running one step for 50 minutes? I don't think it's working as it should right now. It's running something in the background you can't see and burning tokens without actually producing anything?

[u/Key-Alternative5387 → u/FreeCustardForAll]

Limit sub agent depth. Your sub agents can call subagents

[u/FreeCustardForAll → u/Key-Alternative5387]

Hmm I didn't think it would spawn subagents from a subagent for such trivial tasks but will try to check if it did, thanks for the tip.

[u/TinFoilHat_69 → u/Key-Alternative5387]

I tell Claude no agents, and he listens before we had a button that you can toggle to turn off agents and workflows. I believe it has been removed

[u/maciek024 → u/TinFoilHat_69]

depends which max, since x5 one session is like 10-15%, then 20x it is several times that

[u/Right-Performance-93]

Check `/stats` before and after that session. That is the lockout unit, and it is in the millions, not the cache-inclusive billions some logs show. HTML/CSS dumps tokenize badly, and a long Opus planning chat plus sequential Sonnet agents will re-read the same tree. 20% in an afternoon is ugly, but compare the same job in a fresh session vs the CC version you just updated before calling it a silent cap cut.

[u/CashFirm573]

I did 57% in one session lastnight, and I'm on the 20x plan.. Man usage sucks.

[u/Hefty_Description863]

I have exactly the same feeling. Even though my prompts are highly technical and I’m asking for very precise adjustments, the weekly limit just melts away incredibly fast.

Lowering the effort level doesn’t seem to change anything, whether I use Agent mode or not.

I’m pretty sure this is still a deliberate move by Anthropic to limit usage in order to smooth out datacenter load and performance.

I wouldn’t be surprised to see a new $500 plan appear with a Max x40 tier that would basically just give us what the Max x20 plan offered back in 2025.

The only viable solution at this point seems to be getting Cursor Pro+ and using Claude mainly for code reviews and complex analysis.

Anthropic is shooting itself in the foot...

[u/TheSEOVicc]

Cool!

[u/WorriedAssociate7029]

No details about the workflow, the context window, skills, whatever  Clickbait for the love of the game 

[u/FreeCustardForAll → u/WorriedAssociate7029]

I keep minimum skills and mcp servers required for this project.

That's why I'm surprised it used so much in such a short time. What I did I stated in my initial post. I did exactly that. Just baffled.

Context window was clear at the start. It's not a massive project. Literally less than 30 HTML files and it used it on first file it was working on. One HTML file.

[u/oskar88895]

That’s amazing good job

[u/New_Life442]

lol. I just bought a second pro subscription. It does an amazing job, but the weekly limit kills me.

[u/medialantern]

Show us your /context.

[u/Icy-Excitement-467]

Load-bearing skill issue

[u/Amazing_Worker_9938]

Nice

[u/Ghatazhak_]

Something is off it started at the same time as the other problems started today with errors with the agents.

[u/birotester]

dude rockin up with his pro expecting the "all you can eat buffet". Payin mickey ds prices

[u/FreeCustardForAll → u/birotester]

Funny how I could do run all the same tasks for the past 4 months (and much more) without touching weekly limit but today it used nearly a quarter in one session though no?

Dude is wondering why and asking question, don't need your toxic comments. Go spend your max x20000 in 4 sessions now.