Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage

Post by KaoruAoiShiho » Sun, Apr 12, 2026, 8:02 PM UTC

caminante wrote: post #457

KaoruAoiShiho wrote: post #417

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Well they're not public yet so you'll have to put up with rumors. But the numbers are available for companies like DeepSeek say they have an 80% profit margin, so it stands to reason OAI etc would do similar numbers considering they charge much more.

AFAIK, 1. the 80% margin from 2025 was theoretical, 2. they're relying on distillation/synthetic data for training, 3. and have been very opaque about cross-subsidization of R&D with their models. The distillation alone adds a big asterisk for comparisons.

Post by mmd45 » Sun, Apr 12, 2026, 8:16 PM UTC

bcherny wrote: post #210

Hey all, Boris from the Claude Code team here. We've been investigating these reports, and a few of the top issues we've found are: 1. Prompt cache misses when using 1M token context window are expensive. Since Claude Code uses a 1 hour prompt cache window for the main agent, if you leave your computer for over an hour then continue a stale session, it's often a full cache miss. To improve this, we have shipped a few…

Post by mvkel » Sun, Apr 12, 2026, 8:47 PM UTC

bcherny wrote: post #257

mvkel wrote: post #227

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Why did this become an issue seemingly overnight when 1M context has been available for a while, and I assume prompt caching behavior hasn't changed? EDIT: prompt caching behavior -did- change! 1hr -> 5min on March 6th. I'm not sure how starting a fresh session fixes it, as it's just rebuilding everything. Why even make this available? It feels like the rules changed and the attitude from Anth is "aw I'm sorry you di…

> 1hr -> 5min on March 6th This is not accurate. The main agent typically uses a 1h cache (except for API customers, which can enable 1h but it is not on by default because it costs more). Sub-agents typically use a 5m cache.

Post by Ucalegon » Sun, Apr 12, 2026, 8:48 PM UTC

otterley wrote: post #449

Ucalegon wrote: post #408

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I am not reading into an agreement, I am saying there is no agreement to be found to ensure service delivery and the associated liability that would come for any SLA. Also, where is the Anthorpic SLA for Enterprise? Does it exist? Just because people pay for things doesn't mean they know or understand what they are paying for. Nor is there the legal precedence to actually understand where the rub lies or how that imp…

> Just because people pay for things doesn't mean they know or understand what they are paying for. I believe, respectfully, that’s precisely what is happening in this thread because you keep complaining about the absence of an SLA that was never in the agreement, as though it is—or is supposed to be—there, and therefore the existence of some “rights” that would flow from that.

Post by HauntingPin » Sun, Apr 12, 2026, 8:49 PM UTC

brunooliv wrote: post #344

HauntingPin wrote: post #304

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How is any of what you wrote relevant? People aren't using Claude for the first time and hitting rate limits. They've been using Claude for months, at the very least, and they're hitting rate limits without significant changes to how they prompt. > People need to understand a few things: vague questions make the models roam endlessly “exploring” dead ends. > If people were considerably more willing to aggressively pr…

I think in this case, we probably have different experiences that shape how we see some things differently: I see many (very smart) people doing certain things that are not optimal (eg: copy-paste entire files instead of referencing them or tell claude at every message to "read CLAUDE.md and follow its instructions precisely") which can lead to a lot of token waste. If certain system prompts were tweaked internally o…