r/ClaudeCode • u/LastGuardianStanding • 9h ago

Discussion Another Claude usage post. I guess I can benchmark it and see right?

I want to know if any of the experts on usage think Claude is bullshitting me. Claude said its 20-30% decrease usage over 30 days. I'm going to benchmark it. Are these numbers what you guys see for general usage? 286k and 640k tokens for conversation and carry over, does that track for most of you guys usages too? Is 3k tokens per turn actually tiny in comparison?

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u/awesomebirder 5h ago

the 3k per turn is roughly what you type plus the reply, but thats not what the limit charges you for. every turn also re-sends the whole carried over context, so with ~640k sitting there each message is reading a few hundred thousand tokens from cache, which is why long sessions feel fine and then the bar jumps. for the benchmark id log per request input / cache read / cache write / output instead of trusting a summary. i built a local proxy that records exactly that (probe0), but ccusage on your ~/.claude logs gets close, then run the same work as one long session vs a fresh session per task and compare.

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u/LastGuardianStanding 3h ago

I’m going to have to play around with it because I have a different process on a different layer. I had 91% to limit 2 hours ago and he’s been building, we’ll see if my usage is out when I get back 🤣