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Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'

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Re: Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'

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Post by esperent »

arvid-lind wrote: post #98
replwoacause wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nothing devious, but is Anthropic crediting users? In a sense, this is _like_ stealing from your customer, if they paid for something they never got.

Not seeing any quota returned on my Pro account. My weekly usage went up to 20% in about one hour yesterday before I panicked and stopped the task. It was outside of the prime hours too which are supposed to run up your quota at a slower rate.

Outside of prime hours is the normal rate. Prime is at a fast rate, as of about two weeks ago.

Re: Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'

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Post by gmerc »

joshuafuller wrote: post #64
pxtail wrote: post #53

Recently after noticing how quickly limits are consumed and reading others complaints about same issue on reddit I was wondering how much about this is real error or bug hidden somewhere and how much it's about testing what threshold of constraining limits will be tolerated without cancelling accounts. Eventually, in case of "shit hits the fan" situation it can be always dismissed by waving hands and apologizing (or…

This feels a lot like the same playbook we’re seeing with dynamic pricing in retail, just applied to compute instead of products. You never really know what you’re getting, and the rules shift under you. What makes it worse is the lack of transparency. If there were clear, hard limits, people could plan around it. Instead it’s this moving target that makes it impossible to trust for real work. At some point it stops…

That’s what you get when you sign contracts in airline reward miles

Re: Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'

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Post by gmerc »

falkensmaize wrote: post #178
ryandrake wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's going to get much worse. We're soon going to have enough data and compute (and are losing enough online privacy) to allow every company to apply personalized pricing down to the individual. My local restaurant is going to know that I am willing to buy a burger for at most $4.57 and my neighbor is only willing to pay $2.91 for it, and they will have the ability to charge us individually. Every business is going t…

I think there’s a pretty good argument to be made that this is discriminatory. Certainly it’s not something I would tolerate as a consumer. I suspect there will be heavy pressure to regulate this practice out of existence if it catches on.

who is going to stop them? the consumer protection bureau?

Re: Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'

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Post by skywhopper »

pxtail wrote: post #53

Recently after noticing how quickly limits are consumed and reading others complaints about same issue on reddit I was wondering how much about this is real error or bug hidden somewhere and how much it's about testing what threshold of constraining limits will be tolerated without cancelling accounts. Eventually, in case of "shit hits the fan" situation it can be always dismissed by waving hands and apologizing (or…

Everyone on my team has been running into this, including the super users on the Max plan and the skeptics who only use it every few days. The quota is going way faster than it did before, sometimes a single prompt will eat up a third or more of the session quota.

Re: Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'

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Post by rglover »

If you haven't tried it yet, I'd recommend Cline as an alternative (with full support for Anthropic API). Tracks the current token spend on chats so you know when to do a /newchat. Really nice way to budget token spend on a task-by-task basis and your flow isn't interrupted by limits.

Re: Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'

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Post by fcarraldo »

cheschire wrote: post #175
ryandrake wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's going to get much worse. We're soon going to have enough data and compute (and are losing enough online privacy) to allow every company to apply personalized pricing down to the individual. My local restaurant is going to know that I am willing to buy a burger for at most $4.57 and my neighbor is only willing to pay $2.91 for it, and they will have the ability to charge us individually. Every business is going t…

Then your neighbor can charge you up to $1.65 to buy a burger on your behalf and you still get it cheaper.

How can you compete when the algorithms are custom, individualized, and private? How would you even know that you should?

Re: Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'

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Post by fcarraldo »

symfoniq wrote: post #155
ryandrake wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's going to get much worse. We're soon going to have enough data and compute (and are losing enough online privacy) to allow every company to apply personalized pricing down to the individual. My local restaurant is going to know that I am willing to buy a burger for at most $4.57 and my neighbor is only willing to pay $2.91 for it, and they will have the ability to charge us individually. Every business is going t…

Who would voluntarily do business with a company that does this? Not me.

Do you use Uber, Lyft, or Doordash?

What about airlines? https://fortune.com/2025/07/16/delta-moves-toward-eliminatin...

What about Staples or Home Depot? https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323777204578189...

Re: Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'

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Post by RyujiYasukochi »

dinakernel wrote: post #38

This turned out to be a bug. https://x.com/om_patel5/status/2038754906715066444?s=20 One reddit user reverse engineered the binary and found that it was a cache invalidation issue. They are doing some hidden string replacement if the claude code conversation talks about billing or tokens. Looks like that invalidates the cache at that point. If that string appears anywhere in the conversation history, I think the star…

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Re: Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'

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Post by devmor »

cyanydeez wrote: post #171
devmor wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a real danger that I think a lot of people will run into as prices go up more and more in the future. Completely outside of the productivity debate, offloading cognitive tasks to LLMs leaves you less practiced in them and less ready to do them when the LLM isn't available. When you have to delegate only certain tasks to the LLM for financial reasons, you may find yourself very frustrated.

Seriously, who isnt planning a local first strategy?

I am sure a lot of people and orgs are - but realistically the majority of users need to understand and prepare not for local-first, but for the fact that they will never have that option for the models they know are the most useful to them.
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