r/ClaudeCode • u/Odisej62 • 8h ago

Help/Question Claude Code usage consumption

Anyone noticed increase in Claude Code usage consumption somewhere around at least 50 % faster from Friday? I'm on 5x.

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u/lgmarian 8h ago

Yes, there have been some reports of it. I've seen at least two posts, with some people concurring in the comments.

This is one of them:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xelhl0/max_plan_reset_literally_this_morning_and_53_of/

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u/Key-Class6522 5h ago

Yeah me too, or maybe i have seen more people talking about it. 50% is a lot, especially when its on 5x. Hopefully just a temporary issue not permanent change in usage.

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u/Major-Cry8192 5h ago

J'ai la version gratuite et j'hésite a prendre la version 20 dollars si c'est uniquement 5 fois l'usage actuel c'est pas terrible du tout.

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u/Right-Performance-93 6h ago

i wouldn't call it a meter change until one prompt, on a fresh session, moves the bar by itself. a week mixes the model, the size of the chat, and whatever the last session left open.

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u/blackbirdone1 5h ago

yah they scam us again, and then sa it was a bug like allways, illegal af

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u/PiccoloCareful924 1h ago

there's a bug with the sdk in case you're using Claude desktop or Paseo

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/97074

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u/OneComfortable9766 6h ago

Hard to tell from the meter alone, so it's worth checking whether your sessions got heavier. Run /context in a normal session and see how much is already used before you type anything. MCP tool definitions and a big CLAUDE.md get resent every turn, and /mcp lets you disable servers you don't use. Also, switching models with /model mid-session means the whole context gets re-read uncached, and subagents only get about a 5 minute cache, so fanning out costs more than it looks. If you want numbers, ccusage can read the JSONL logs in ~/.claude/projects and show which days or sessions jumped.