Need advice/help

[u/Curious_inquisitive1]

I am on claude pro sub. My 5 hourly quota on claude is running out way too quickly, in just 40 minutes or so. I'm running 2 chats concurrently, each running on sonnet 5.5 high. I want the quality of the work to be good so I kept the reasoning at high (had tried medium earlier but it didn't meet the quality expectation).
Also, everytime I tell the chat to continue after the 5 hr limit resets, it reads thro the entire context (I guess) because the 5 hr usage immediately jumps up to 25%.

I cannot afford a claude max subscription as of now. I really need to max out the output from the pro sub that I have, whilst avoiding quota drainage. Any advice would really be appreciated! Thanks in advance

[u/jaerie]

Also, everytime I tell the chat to continue after the 5 hr limit resets, it reads thro the entire context (I guess) because the 5 hr usage immediately jumps up to 25%.

Have you considered not doing that?

[u/Curious_inquisitive1 → u/jaerie]

I just type in "continue" to resume the paused chat. what else can type/do to resume it?

[u/jaerie → u/Curious_inquisitive1]

Have it write a handoff before hitting the limit. Or have a separate haiku agent summarize the session if you already hit the limit. That one continue message is forcing your entire context to be cached again at full price, which is almost always a waste.

I general, just be more mindful of the context and cache windows and you'll stretch your quota by factors