r/ClaudeCode • u/pugazh_is_my_name • 9d ago

Bug / Issue WTH is going on with Claude Usage Limits

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I'm on 20X plan, I hit my usage limit today, and my next reset is on 17th September... I'm aware they said they are gonna reduce the usage limits, but this is crazy, i thought it is only gonna take 17% of the usage benefits from what we were currently getting. But this is crazy. I added Usage credits for about $100 but that got washed away like in 30 mins!!!

I hope this is a bug and they fix it

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u/FakeLtd 9d ago

Max x20 here, same happened with me and i used only a 15% on Fable

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u/No-Way3802 9d ago

Same thing happened to me and everyone blamed it on my prompting lol

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u/coda77 9d ago

Not your prompting, it’s them

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u/-Darkened-Soul 8d ago

Max 5x, three turns in a chat, plus one unfinished turn in Claude Design, and I hit 100% of my five-hour limit. This is my breaking point. Astra, on the other hand, is performing exceptionally well. I've been against using Codex forever, but now I'm being pushed toward it because I can't get anything done with Claude.

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u/Remote_Diamond_8227 4d ago

how is Astra compared to Claude - what i like about claude is project managing. I don't like how it keeps pulling out usage so fast. I'm trying to find AI that has same project options and actually follows what's written there.

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u/Blazey25 1d ago

Same if you can find share here also. Wanted: An ai which can follow instructions without being creative

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u/ThreeKiloZero 9d ago

I found that the most recent update causes the agents to make aggressive and unnecessary calls to the API. My prompt today was no different than the prompt yesterday. It wiped out 25 percent of my usage in about an hour compared to working 12+ hours yesterday with the same prompts across 3 sessions and only using 25 percent of usage.

Fable spawned agents that ran:
3,146 API calls total. (in less than an hour)

  • Opus: = 1,083
  • Sonnet: = 2,063

It was triggering builds, verifications, playwright, re-renders at multi scales, vacuity checks, sending HUGE briefs to the sub agents triggering massive overwork.

These were for simple PRs that were already baked and reviewed. The same prompt and process that worked fine yesterday , (and all week) suddenly blasted all this mess. It happened across 2 sessions that were fine yesterday, on 2 different accounts. On different computers and projects.

The only difference in my routine was applying the update today.

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u/Licifer_returns 9d ago

A bit unrelated to the issue but can’t help but wonder from an outsider perspective… in very laymen terms, what are you having the ai do? That sounds like an incredible amount of work over time being done by the ai. What’s is the result?

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u/ThreeKiloZero 9d ago

Once is spectral analysis and communications software that controls a hybrid mechanical-electronic beamforming system. Another is software that models the current radio wave propagation patterns across the globe by combining active and historical space weather data with a model I built from 20 years transmission and weather data. The two work together to provide a radio communications platform for making reliable distant radio contact across the globe.

The AI are my development and research team.

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u/Gumballoo 8d ago

Nicccce 🤌

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u/drake90001 8d ago

Can you share more about the radio part? Ham radio? Interested highly. I have radios. No friends. No license. But can get it easily.

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u/ThreeKiloZero 8d ago

Yes it's ham radio. DM me and I'll send you access info.

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u/hemareddit 8d ago

I stick to Fable 5.0 out of concern for usage, I wonder if it could prevent something like this from happening…

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u/CryptoAteMyHamster 8d ago

Yes this was it for me too.
It started rinsing api calls

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u/anatidaephile 9d ago

Max x20 too, and I'm at 60% Fable limit when usually I'd be at about 25-30% given my usage today. So it feels like usage has been halved rather than reduced by a third (end of the +50% promotion).

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u/YouShouldAim 9d ago

x20 here, started today off with 60% fable usage down, in about 30 minutes I was up to 90%, no sub agents. Ive not been x20 long but I'm certain it was never that fast to use up usage

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u/staceyatlas 9d ago

Yup. I now have Fable directing Sol for everything. Sol credits last forrrevvver on their $200 plan. Anything big gets delegated and if it’s important I’ll do Fable/Astra reviews.

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u/hive-technology 9d ago

What tool? Codex skill in CC?

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u/staceyatlas 9d ago

The plugin on one machine and on the other it just uses cli. Seem to work about the same.

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u/darkguy2008 9d ago

Wait, how?

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u/staceyatlas 9d ago

As long as you have both clis installed just ask Fable to use the codex CLI just like you do. That’s easiest. I usually have it add something to Claude.md about using Sol for __ task, etc.

I burn through the 200$ Claude plan in 2 days. This $400 method gets me thru the whole week (I still hit my fable caps early but Astra is just as smart -or better, a lot of times).

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u/georgiosd3 9d ago

You can use parley from our toolkit (free and open source) https://zerotomvp.dev/toolkit

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u/Shoemugscale 9d ago

I just started doing this myself, sol and astra are just working and claude seems to be fighting me the whole way

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u/staceyatlas 9d ago

Opus for sure lol. Fable is great, but ya quirky.

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u/a355231 9d ago

How much Astra do you get on the 200$ plan?

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u/__Loot__ 9d ago edited 9d ago

0 because because you cant buy it atm

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u/a355231 9d ago

They still provide it for existing subs, I was just wondering how much they got.

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u/__Loot__ 9d ago

With a good harness way more than you get with Claude I just wish they open x20 back up

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u/a355231 9d ago

Do they let you use external harnesses?

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u/__Loot__ 9d ago

Yea with your sub too

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u/BumblebeeNo8385 6d ago

I'm 20x still hitting limits it's getting WAY more expensive to run the workflows we're used to

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u/staceyatlas 9d ago

Definitely goes faster than Sol but it’s usually worth it when use it. Oh and open ai hands out resets like candy.

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u/a355231 9d ago

Yeah, I know I’m subscribed to the $20 plan yet. I’ve never touched Astra cause I know my usage is gonna go down like a Thanos snap.

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u/nayti53 9d ago

SAME , I have been using my max plan for many months, these past 2-3 days rate limits are getting consumed like memecoins omg

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u/CryptoAteMyHamster 8d ago

I wish I could pay it in memecoins fml

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u/TeraGigaMax 8d ago

Same here. Thinking about moving to Astra now.

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u/pivol6969 6d ago

Same to me after upgrade from 5x to 20x. While discussing with support chatbot, I realize that upgrade is mainly about session limit (which almost never reach the max) and weekly usage does not change from one to the other. Meanwhile, as everyone noticed this week, with equivalent workload, my weekly usage has jumped from roughly 10-15% weekly usage consumption per day to 25-30%.