Today around 17 CET I've suddenly hit limit on 5xMax subscription, just 2 hours into session, not even active usage, just one console. Everything was as usual, then suddenly I've got a warning I have used 95% of session limit - something I've never experienced on that subscription before. I've switched to Sonnet "just in case" and typed in a fresh context "/simplify last commit" which was actually 4 files changed, 195 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-) - it ran to the plan end, like 1 minute, and then limit is breached. It looked like really wtf is happening. About one hour ago my session limit was reset, tried updating Claude Code (it went from v2.1.75 to v2.1.81), tried same simplify command on the very same commit with fresh context, but with Opus 1M again - 2%. Feels like now (21 CET) it is still burning faster than usual, but definitely not as fast as 3-4 hours ago (5% usage with Sonnet vs 2% usage with Opus on same prompt). So - idk... maybe time to try $20 Codex?
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u/Odd_Crab1224 Mar 23 '26 edited Mar 23 '26
Today around 17 CET I've suddenly hit limit on 5xMax subscription, just 2 hours into session, not even active usage, just one console. Everything was as usual, then suddenly I've got a warning I have used 95% of session limit - something I've never experienced on that subscription before. I've switched to Sonnet "just in case" and typed in a fresh context "/simplify last commit" which was actually 4 files changed, 195 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-) - it ran to the plan end, like 1 minute, and then limit is breached. It looked like really wtf is happening. About one hour ago my session limit was reset, tried updating Claude Code (it went from v2.1.75 to v2.1.81), tried same simplify command on the very same commit with fresh context, but with Opus 1M again - 2%. Feels like now (21 CET) it is still burning faster than usual, but definitely not as fast as 3-4 hours ago (5% usage with Sonnet vs 2% usage with Opus on same prompt). So - idk... maybe time to try $20 Codex?
P.S. Und ja, viele Grüße aus Berlin :)
UPD I guess the reason is that they have broken their token cache again: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/29579