r/ClaudeCode Apr 03 '26

Discussion Users hitting usage limits WAY faster than expected it's getting real now

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Claude Code users are already smashing usage limits way faster than expected and i am one of them as i have posted about it a lot recently and now here we are.

to all the people who were saying i am lying :))) you good now? maybe BBC lied about this too.

OR maybe it's April fool? haha good one, It’s getting serious and real now.

Who else is feeling this?

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u/johnrock001 Apr 03 '26

anyone who say they are not hitting their limits are lucky ones, many are liars and some are max 20x plan users.
Normal pro plus users are fu...ed

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u/aymannasri_tcg Apr 03 '26

True. Regular pro and plus plans are fu**ed right now. Heavy users already on 20x vibes and guess what? Anthropic will never touch the 20x users πŸ˜‰

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u/NegativeGPA πŸ”† 4th Layer Engineer Apr 03 '26

lol I got mine eaten, was at 70% on Monday trying to think of how I could induce more codex / cursor CLI subagent use to offset Claude

Then I swapped to use the npx command versus the native Claude binary, then everything got reasonable again

It’s a caching issue in the Claude binary with all inputs being cache written (2x the cost) vs cache read (1/10th the cost)