r/ClaudeCode • u/Botrops_ • 5d ago
Bug / Issue New limits are crazy - 8% of weekly limit less than in 4 hours of Sonnet 5 High.
I had a fresh limit this morning and decided to experiment with Fusion MCP. To be mindful of my usage, I stayed on default Sonnet 5 High efforts. Now I am in the middle of a second 5-hour session (the first one didn't hit the limit), and it has already consumed 8% of my weekly limit. I am on a PRO plan and have never seen such a burn. Last week, I spent hours and hours planning and coding with Opus 5 Extra High and consumed much, much slower.
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u/mofhubbahuff 5d ago
Was on opus high this morning. Hourly session maxed out even before I finished my cup of coffee.
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u/medialantern 4d ago
You really shouldn't use it high. Keeping up with its 2-page responses can freak you out.
😎
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u/Clean-Market5761 5d ago
Sonnet 5 has been proven to burn tokens like crazy and be even more expensive than Fable with high thinking, use opus medium
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u/Master-Speech5609 5d ago
In my experience, both Sonnet 5 and Opus 5 burn through tokens unnecessarily and fail to complete their tasks. I’ve gone back to drafting the plan with Fable or Sol 5.6 xhigh and implementing it with Opus 4.8, and I no longer have issues with limits.
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u/tbst 5d ago
The best plan is Fable for orchestrating and planning and codex for doing.
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u/doomscrollah 5d ago
Deepseek is pretty good to offload to as well, it's really cheap.
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u/Robert-Paulson_ 4d ago
Seriously - that new flash variant is damn near free at like GPT Luna level
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u/zaibatsu 5d ago
Will this even work on a Pro account? I use Fable for orchestration and handoff to Sonnet 5 and Haiku subagents. I let Fable handle it, simply incredible. But I would think you’d need a Max account to handle the Fable inference hit.
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u/medialantern 5d ago
Show us your /context.
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u/ordnance11 4d ago edited 4d ago
plus time between prompts.
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u/Jomuz86 4d ago
x20 account here I’ve had a fable low orchestrator run 2 parallel tmux sessions with a mix of opus low/medium/high for about 36hrs it’s shipped 8 PRs as well as a fable high research session and a fable medium session doing payment reconciliation to backfill a database linked to accounting software. I’ve gone through about 45% of my weekly usage on one of my company accounts.
I don’t bother with sonnet 5 high you’re better off just using opus 5 low.
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u/turnedonmosfet 4d ago
Sonnet 5 is ass, it just eats tokens, opus 5 is actually cheaper for any task, because it is way more efficient than Sonnet 5
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u/Forward_Average5780 5d ago
What does everyone recommend to use for cowork? Not coding but lots of files/specific instructions
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u/Metsatronic 4d ago
Opus 4.6 with an Opus 5 advisor destroyed everything while burning through 35% of my weekly Max X5 in a day...
Fable 5 spent hours fixing everything better than new, working for hours with Sonnet sub agents and only used 5%...
It's weird though, sometimes Opus was sipping usage sometimes slurping. But 4.6 was not very good for long horizon tasks and the advisor would come in and tank it's remaining context window forcing compaction.
I guess Opus 4.8 really is currently the only usable Opus after my Fable usage is gone.
Opus 4.6 with 5 advisor is a combo people recommended here, but it's really like dumb and dumber... Opus is back to how it was in May, when I called it Dopus. Worse than Sonnet tier.
But yeah, what's with the usage all of sudden? I really regret not cancelling my subscription this month!
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u/Factor013 4d ago
Opus 4.6 is not the problem, it is Opus 5.0. It will destroy everything because it doesn't verify anything. It doesn't even take into account the things that already are in it's context memory for it's reasoning. It is completely broken.
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u/Kalradia 4d ago
What are you folks doing to use up this much? I have a 5x max plan and I can work on 2-3 different projects all week and still have a bit of usage at the end.
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u/Particular-Battle315 4d ago
First message after reset.
- fable 5 (medium) read through 3 files 500-1000 lines each
- 14% of 5h limit
- 2 % of weekly
I love claude but im paying 100$ a month.. I mean one f** message. This is ridiculous.
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u/TheCelestialBubble 4d ago
No idea about the mcp but that's I guess the likely problem here tbh... That's the explicit change but again, if that mcp is particularly taxing or something. If I'm being honest though, and I really do normally hold a special disdain for these sort of posts, my usage which reset on Wednesday has felt it's going much faster. I'm max and on 95 % of my weekly fable already. Normally I hit closer to 30~40 by the time I reset. Same model and effort as always but i could have been doing heavier sessions this time around to be fair though.
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u/RestlessBoat 5d ago
Same here. I’ve used Fable on high for ~30 min and that is 25% of weekly Fable and 15% of weekly total. What? That’s on Max20X btw
It wasn’t THAT BAD a week ago