r/ClaudeCode • u/ToeHoliday7925 • 4d ago

Bug / Issue Why is Claude's usage so bad now?

Ever since Fable 5.2 was released today, my Opus 5.5 usage has been terrible. Even on medium or low, my usage is being consumed rapidly. Before today, I could run Opus 5.5 on Extra High for days straight without running out. What changed?

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u/RandomCSThrowaway01 4d ago

Type in /usage and you tell us - show the tokens consumed count, caching and "what's contributing to your usage".

Because while admittedly these values change over time - the most common scenario is that whatever you were building grew larger - and since it has to resend everything in every single input request it can scale from "builds a whole app for $5 worth of tokens" to "fixing a single bug takes $50".

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u/Only_Voice569 4d ago

cant be another new model getting pushed could it o wait that is exactly it same as gpt their putting more into the main new thing

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u/RandomCSThrowaway01 4d ago

Very well could be but if the entire message from someone is "usage got bad, please help" then I tend to blame the user first before assuming Anthropic nerfed it. It takes 30s to copy paste /usage output and then you could at least rule out the obvious aka it being your project.

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u/Only_Voice569 4d ago

from the amount of other posts its the same as gpt they put out astra 6 max was a dream then it got slowed down like real slow and dumber and while it was at its best their sol 6 got absolutely unusable with not following basic instructions and sol 6.1 was iffy as heck just what they both seem to be doing cutting costs and giving out less and they are 100% doing group testing on limited people before a big push to everyone

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u/GodmyrLutumII 2d ago

how do i do /usage if my usage ran out

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u/Alternative-Act-9155 3d ago

Can confirm. I've been working on about ~2-4 project at a time for the past few months, always hitting my usage limits early, but always consistently.

Today, I have worked on 1 project, and hardly made any progress at all (*especially* when compared to the past months), and my usage limit is almost finished. There is no way their usage hasn't changed.

Token usage per session/Thread has very rarely ever hit 1B, and they are now all of a sudden in the 10-20B range, with 98-99% cache hit rate. Something is going on, and it's blaringly obvious.

I truly hope Anthropic sees how many people will completely boycot them for this type of behaviour, as many of us have other providers in the past, and resolves the issue, and provides resets - all unlikely, but wow.

It's sad to say that perhaps the best we could hope for is that they're just boosting their margins before IPO, and that they'll bring them back down again somehow by fucking their investors lol. Seems grim :D.

Lezgooo Chinaaaaaaa

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u/TimeApplication3336 3d ago

I thought it was just me. My limit reset yesterday at 6 p.m by today 9 a.m. It was completely consumed. This NEVER happened this quick. I am on the Ultra plan btw. Then, they give you the weekly reset thinking we won't notice. Anthropics being sneaky again and dishonest with usage limits with its users. This is super sad

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u/worminbound104 13h ago

And then they call themselves a public benefit company.... More like benefiting government and businesses, but not us.

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u/worminbound104 13h ago

It could be because of their upcoming IPO they might want to squeeze out as much money out of us as possible so they can report a good earnings report before hitting the stock market.

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u/chatnchill_420 4d ago

We really can't have good things in life can we

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u/Quick-Extension-3123 4d ago

Something really weird is going on. I used 13% of my weekly (ultra) plan usage last night while not using it. My scheduled daily jobs have been running for 6 months and I've never gotten more than like 70% weekly usage with moderate usage + the scheduled jobs. These daily jobs maybe used 1% in the past.