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

Post by sharts » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 10:36 AM UTC

foofloobar wrote: post #591

prmph wrote: post #588

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Why? It seems just fine to me. This is what Anthropic needs to do if they want to survive. I'm always looking out for someone to integrate an actually good harness to a good model. Once that happens, I'm jumping ship if Anthropic keeps playing these tricks. It's almost unusable for me now. A simple prompt to merge 3 sub-100-line files with simple node code, on Sonnet 4.6, uses up 20% of my 5 hour quota, on a new/fres…

To be fair, my comment was a bit harsher before the update. The way they handle the development, communication and how they treat customers isn't fine. I've seen some angry people post and comment in manners which truly deserved the label hostile. The whole product with the infrastructure and Claude Code's code appear to be vibe coded.

Post by sharts » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 10:39 AM UTC

bcherny wrote: post #266

docheinestages wrote: post #256

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Why are you all of a sudden running into so many issues like this? Could it be that all of the Anthropics employees have completely unlimited and unbounded accounts, which means you don't get a feeling of how changes will affect the customers?

The number of people using Claude Code has grown very quickly, which means: - More configurations and environments we need to test - Given an edge/corner case, it is more likely a significant number of users run into it - As the ecosystem has grown, more people use skills and plugins, and we need to offer better tools and automation to ensure these are efficient We do actually dogfood rate limits, so I think it's som…

Post by bustah » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 10:44 AM UTC

Post by onedotnet » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 10:56 AM UTC

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #354

Please remember you do not need Anthropic. There are cheaper subscriptions with higher rate limits. Comparison of subscriptions to API: https://codeberg.org/mutablecc/calculate-ai-cost/src/branch/... Score/price comparison: https://benchlm.ai/llm-pricing Opus is not worth the moat, there are multiple equivalent models, GLM 5.1 and Kimi K2.5 being the open ones, GPT 5.4 and Gemini 3.1 Pro being closed. https://llm-sta…

Post by baq » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 11:04 AM UTC

pu_pe wrote: post #589

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…

So Anthropic is trying to save money on infrastructure, we all get it. However, it's not ok to degrade the performance your users have paid for. Last week the issue was that you reduced the default "effort" level, now the prompt cache is shortened. Several users experience far more restrictive usage limits lately. There is only so much you can do through "UX improvements" or some smart routing on the backend. Your fl…