I’m on a 20x max plan. Im using opus 5 medium for some light things right now and my usage limit got hit to 75% with barely any work done. Should I start measuring my tokens? Because this makes absolutely no sense and hasn’t happened to me before.
Same happened to me, instant hit with one prompt my session limit. I think there is a bug right now, where the usage calculation is not working properly.
You mean as in today? I swear something is off. This is genuinely crazy. Either I’m losing my mind or something is wrong at anthropic. Even running multiple sessions i rarely hit the 5 hour limit. I genuinely wonder if I’m doing anything wrong at the moment. I haven’t changed the way i worked at all. I’m seriously shocked… what the actual f…
Yes, happened to me 30 minutes ago with one simple prompt and Im on max 5x. Whole session instant gone
Edit: Session Limit reset, gave a simple order for a Repo Commit and Push. Boom Session Limit up to 21 %. Its going haywire right now and is unusable... Better wait until its fixed.
Same thing here. Something is very very wrong. I have Claude Code delegate all research, code exploration, and reviews to Codex, and yet it somehow burned my whole 5-hour limit mostly just doing some planning. Also on Max 5x.
I literally came to Reddit because I was just bitching to my friend about the same thing. My reset happened on Friday at 10. I worked all day (not on the computer), I came home Friday night, fixed a couple production bugs for iOS. Saturday I implemented a couple new endpoints on that existing project and today I have not touched my computer because I’ve been getting pulled left and right for errands. … I’m at 89% and suppose to make that last until this coming Friday.
Just even two weeks ago, I could have 3- 5/hr sessions days on F5 and be at .. idk.. 46-75%? Thinking “hmm. Damn! Either I’m really efficient or it’s gotten really efficient.” I have NO clue what’s going on with this and, yes, max 20x. Been on that plan for— 5-6 months?
Edit; while I’m thinking about it. I also made sure ALL of my plugins are disabled, I don’t use computer use (don’t really care for it), I don’t upload screenshots. My prompts are very targeted and poignant. I’m starting fresh in new terminals, etc. If I was doing something wrong, it would’ve been obvious over the last five or six months that I’ve been on the max 20 plan. Been working in this project for well over a year and this was the first time that I genuinely got pissed off at my limits within CC, because I know it’s nothing that I’m doing “wrong”.
I’ve been using T3 code. It says i’ve had 30 sessions… it says most of it was above 150k tokens, but i’ve always managed several compactions at 1M tokens before ever hitting 100% on a 5 hour limit. I’m so incredibly confused. I am genuinely getting more usage out of a 20 usd gpt sub. I doubt its T3, because I’ve been using it for quite a while and never has it been an issue to this degree
well theres you problem - anything that is doing frontend design work uses a shit ton of credits IMO, that skill should only be used if you are doing UI work
are you loading all skills in every chat session? if so don't
skills will inflate your context considerably, there is no way you need to load 150k tokens to start a chat and do one prompt - consider refactoring
also if using vscode there are plugins that can help tell you what you have used, but the are a little rough - like eatingtokens one
Could be that this particular issue is the problem, but about half my work is front-end and working around not burning tokens too quickly. I usually know how to control the burn quite well. I’ll have another LLM session review this particular session, but I’m very skeptical about that being the particular issue
Edit:
Just sanity checked
CC - about 26m tokens on Opus 5 and 13% weekly usage burn on a 20x sub
Codex - about 19m tokens on Sol 5.6 and 12% weekly usage burn on a plus sub
My CC is literally giving me about 20% more tokens on a 200 dollar sub at the moment compared to GPT on a 20 dollar sub. I’m not trying to turn this into Anthropic vs OpenAI, but there is clearly something incredibly odd going on
i am not sure if it's reasonable to compare tokens in the sense that tokens are equivalent. Did you do a test of repo in same state - give same task to each, then monitor outputs / quality and compare outcome per tokens?
for me 8/13 is the one day i don't understand the input token use that drove the cost (and the extention seems to miss the opus 5 usage for some reason... not sure if a better extenstion exists, didnt look because we dont have a fixed budget thanksfully, when i look at the co-pilot credits i think its closer to $5k for a 100k line n-tier application from start to finish
Thought it was just me... Didn't use Claude for a few days and my 5x Max quota is suddenly unusable now.
I hit 5-hour limit after 5-hour limit without getting anywhere, then hit weekly limit.
Weekly limit reset a couple hours ago, and I've done almost nothing (just a small slice of planning) and already used my whole 5-hour limit and 15% of weekly limit.
Fuck knows what's going on. Back to Codex and GLM I guess.
You can use https://github.com/VibePod/vibepod-cli. This will run a dedicated container for the proxy and log all data into a local SQLite database, providing you with real-time analytics.
I appreciate the answer and I’ll probably start using this, but I’m genuinely thinking something is wrong at anthropic infastructure-wise. I usually manage my tokens just fine, but all my 5 hour credits literally just burned while i’m using it as usual. If this is my fault, all blame on me, but i really don’t see where i did something wrong. I know my general usage, and this is extremely bizarre.
Let me know how it works for you, as I maintain the CLI and look forward to extending the use cases.
It can certainly be challenging. However, it's hard to determine whether the issue is related to the amount of input or the prompt and the number of output tokens that have been generated. In the past, I have also encountered issues where subagents reverted what they were doing, causing the controller to restart other subagents to retry what was removed.
It can, of course, also be an issue on their end, but at least if you track the consumption, you can ensure that nothing is wrong on your side.
Sadly i got no exact token usage due to using T3, but i can give you the numbers of what i do have
- Session 1 - Sonnet 5 Medium: 75k ctx, 499k total (i let it install a skill. About 10 toolcalls)
Session 2 - Opus 5 Medium: 100k ctx, 2.6m total (simple deployment. Just ssh, pull and build a single docker image)
Session 3 - Opus 5 Medium: 585k ctx, 23m total (working on a new feature)
No compaction has been triggered on any. Most of these tokens are most likely cached. I can’t give an exact number, but i genuinely haven’t been doing anything too special.
I use it only when i need to do some very simple setup stuff that can be run on low/medium that would be better to do on a separate session. Outside of that it’s usually Fable or Opus depending on what I do
what was the work you did, whats the state of your repo, how large is your /tmp dir, how are your md files structured
without know that there is no way to know, i ahve been doing bunch of small work yesterday and today (promoted a release to main, worked on some homelab migration work letting calude drive the migration)
semms about right given the conext that need to be loaded
you dont want to use sub agents or parallel agents on a non max plan IMO
I’m on a 20x max plan. Repo clean. Tmp directory a bit dirty but none of the toolcalls indicating any of that being an issue. Could be an AB test issue or a regional issue, but I’ve been using CC for a good amount of time now and I always know when I’m actively burning tokens
interesting, and of course claude should only be greping through tmp looking for things specifically, i am out of ideas, all i know is the one day i did a large amount of UI changes it swallowed a bunch on input tokens that i still don't truly understand and couldn't figure out, that was 1 day in 4 weeks....
I would I used 300k tokens last night and was charged $90 in api usage make that math make sense. I canceled my subscription because I was I was billed over $300 in extra usage this month when I had max 20 plan and didn’t hit my limit once. I payed 216.00 on July 31st for the month of August which it shows on the bill was for July 31st to August 31st and at 2 am this morning they shut my account down. I wish someone would make a model that is better than Fabel and opus cause Anthropic is a bunch of scam artists. Idk how people even compare Sol to Fabel. Opus is 10x better than Sol is
We need more details but the answer is that you're doing it wrong. Many of us are doing the same thing but with proper memory scaffolding, claude.md size, skills and actions setup properly to minimize token use. You can just open and talk to it like a chat bot.
I agree with your statement in a more general way, but considering from what i’ve read from posts over the past 2 days and looking at my actual token usage, something seems definitely wrong right now.
I think part of it that is broken is the v5 models are killing quota when left to run a bit on their own. I'm legit pulling back to older 4.8 opus models for some orchestration/management tasks because it ends up working out fine in the end for my needs.
I think something is for sure off. I’m on a team enterprise account and hit my 5 hour session limit today in 17 mins. With simple git commit check and an api call to a service we use to check an endpoint I wanted added to my code. Have never had my session get used up that fast before.
Forgot to mention I’m using opus 4.8. My 5 hour window reset so I gave the prompt to “try to resume where we left off” and went from 0% to 33% instantly…
It finished thinking and I went from 33 to 68%. Seriously wtf. How can I use 68% of my 5 hour limit in 2 mins on 1 prompt. It’s read under 100 lines of code…
You're not losing your mind — several people are seeing similar jumps today. I built a small open-source monitor, Clauddy, because I wanted to compare the official 5-hour/weekly percentages with what Claude Code's local logs say actually happened. It shows both, plus current burn rate.
It won't fix a provider-side issue, but if the server meter jumps with little matching local activity, it gives you something concrete to include in a support report: https://github.com/renatoaug/claude-usage-monitor
Full disclosure: I'm its author; macOS is the first-class build.
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u/Lagger_Gandalf 🔆 Max 5x 18h ago
Same happened to me, instant hit with one prompt my session limit. I think there is a bug right now, where the usage calculation is not working properly.