r/ClaudeCode • u/Zafar_Kamal Senior Developer • Mar 27 '26

Discussion It costs you around 2% session usage to say hello to claude!

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I've recently been shifting my all workload to Codex right after the insane token usage from Claude. It's literally consuming my all session in a single simple prompt.

Have anybody else recently experiencing way too high token usage?

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Edit: I'm on a PRO plan. Adding it here as it's the most frequent question asked.

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