Ask HN: Claude Code usage changing (max 20x)

#1

Post by uptownhr » Mon, Apr 27, 2026, 3:48 PM UTC

Last week i upgraded claude code subscription to 20x. I got a lot of usage based on this and was happy.

Over the weekend was good until Sunday afternoon. For some reason, my usage would jump 1% every minute or so, based on just normal conversation. I wasn't even asking it to do anything crazy.

Monday morning, still occurred. I've been heavily monitoring, and in matter of 1 hour, the claude.ai usage shows 70%. I had another 4 hours before it would reset.

About 30 minutes later, i checked again, and it dropped to 40%.

Anyone experience this?

Re: Ask HN: Claude Code usage changing (max 20x)

#2

Post by reedum » Mon, Apr 27, 2026, 4:42 PM UTC

I noticed the same trend over the weekend. I used ~25% of my total usage between Mon-Sat last week, yesterday I spent 4 hours using it, my usage shot up to 70% for the week. I used ~5% of what what I did the other 6 days and it totaled up to 45% of my weekly usage.

Re: Ask HN: Claude Code usage changing (max 20x)

#3

Post by uptownhr » Mon, Apr 27, 2026, 4:44 PM UTC

reedum wrote: post #2

I noticed the same trend over the weekend. I used ~25% of my total usage between Mon-Sat last week, yesterday I spent 4 hours using it, my usage shot up to 70% for the week. I used ~5% of what what I did the other 6 days and it totaled up to 45% of my weekly usage.

yea - that's exactly what i saw. I like claude code, but err.... I wish they allowed better auditability. I'm using headroom, so i see somethings but I can't relay it back to what anthropic has.