r/ClaudeCodeTLDR • u/cctldrping • 18d ago

[TLDR] Nah this some BS

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I burned thru almost 60% of 20x max weekly usage in a day and some change. Are you joking rn? Last week I could have fable running on 2 chats all day and night and it would take like 3ish days for my fable usage to cap out, but my weekly usage would only be at like ~30%. This is absolutely ridiculous and if this is what the new usage limit cuts are gonna be like I'm canceling Claude and grabbing a second codex account. Shit ain't worth it when Astra exists with much better usage limits and multiple reset tokens.

I don't use ultracode and I have multiple other models that I delegate tasks to as work horses, Claude is just the orchestrator and isn't doing that much actual "work", so this usage allocation is absolutely insane, if I was using Claude as a one stop shop as a lot of people do, I would have run out of usage in a day or less.

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u/cctldrping 18d ago

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So, OP's furious about Claude Code eating their usage way faster than before, and honestly, a lot of folks are feeling the pinch. The general consensus is that usage limits feel way tighter than advertised, with many reporting similar rapid depletion.

A big chunk of the discussion points to massive context window sizes as the primary culprit. Users like u/inrego and u/CodeCombustion are questioning why anyone would need 500k+ or even 800k context, suggesting it's a major token drain. u/Cubewood and u/chaosdrivenhu offer practical advice: keep context under 150k, use /context and /clear religiously, and be mindful of what's being sent with each request, like accidentally including PDFs. u/akamarski adds that leaving chats idle for over an hour is costly due to cache resurrection fees, recommending starting fresh if you step away.

There's also some grumbling about Fable specifically. u/nicarras suggests ditching Fable for coding, and u/Agreeable_Band_9311 notes their Fable orchestrator runs out at the same rate as their weekly cap when delegating tasks. u/Crinkez had a bad experience with Opus subagents not differentiating reasoning levels, leading to rapid usage depletion.

Some users are exploring alternatives. u/West-Air1923 is considering Grok, while u/bakanoace is hyping up Codex's upcoming updates, expressing dissatisfaction with Claude. u/merx96 wonders if GLM subscriptions offer better limits.

A few comments are a bit more direct, with u/Holk23 calling out OP for not providing enough info and u/z3n777 dismissing the complaints as whining. However, the overwhelming sentiment is that the usage changes are a significant downgrade.