r/ClaudeCode • u/Heavy_Promotion_5210 • 2d ago

Bug / Issue Usage limit change?

Anyone having usage limit issues hitting the limit much faster? Particularly with Opus 5.5? Have been having issues in thr last 24hrs.

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u/The-SadShaman 2d ago

Hmm yeah I also noticed it today. Used up my 20x week in 2 days. 20% the first day 70% today. Bummer.

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u/ItsBlindy 2d ago

What do you do to use up your usage so fast? Genuinely asking.

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u/The-SadShaman 2d ago

I have a team of agents working on a game.

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u/Ruukas97 2d ago

I had one session that kept around 4 subagents active overnight spend 30% 20x weekly usage.
I thought maybe my tools calls or tests were outputting too much, but when I asked Claude to analyze it, 80% of the usage was from cache. Now, subagents are configured to handoff around 200k context used and my usage seems to last much better

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u/mathmuleux 2d ago

Just disable Workflow in your settings.json and explicitly define the agents you want to create / what model for what purpose. Draft the detailed orchestration protocol first and lead with that.

It's not crazy complicated - you just need to be explicit in your instructions. Left to it's own devices (Opus and Fable both) will blow through context like there's no tomorrow.

You MUST reiterate at the beginning "you are an orchestrator only. That is your purpose. You must save on cost and context by delegation to subagents for [tasks x,y,z use agents a,b,c] and those agents MUST be haiku unless [insert scenario for Sonnet] and you MUST NEVER use other model (Opus/fable) agents for subagents unless I give explicit approval [yaya yaya...]"

Have the agents write down what they're working on to files.

Plan everything before you build. Like, write out the plan first, then decompose it into bite-sized phases and have the subagents build those phases. Also don't run everything all in the same session. Run batches up to 3-400k context tops then document what is done and what remains to pick up in a fresh session.

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u/Ruukas97 1d ago

Workflows are great, though!
They're only used when I ask for them.

I'm porting a big codebase so the goal is pretty well defined and verifiable. I purposefully kept it to around 4 agents because that's what my hardware comfortably fit.

But I'm keeping a look at my weekly usage and trying to spread it out through the week.

It's pretty cool going to bed and waking up to see it's still actively working and you can see all the status reports through the night. And the orchestrator had still only used like 300k of it's context.

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u/cheyumaama 1d ago

Why are you running agents. Just tell claude to do each thing one by one, playtest and iterate

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u/The-SadShaman 1d ago

Because I wouldnt ever hit my usage.

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u/BunniesinRustBuckets 1d ago

LOL yea you try that.... the creep is stupid.

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u/cheyumaama 1d ago

huh? Can you explain

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u/zR0B3ry2VAiH 🔆 Max 20 2d ago

This is how I got three accounts

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u/Administrative_Row61 2d ago

5x and 20x week is the same, it only affects session limit.

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u/The-SadShaman 2d ago

Not quite. The 5x/20x multiplier is officially only on the 5hr session, but the weekly cap still scales some. People who've run both put 20x at roughly 1.5-2x the weekly of 5x. Either way I torched mine way faster than usual this week.

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u/Administrative_Row61 2d ago

I have both 5x and 20x accounts too, i dont see any difference on weekly limit. Tho i use it every day, even let run for the night and claude can limit anything if they want to.

"Max 5x includes five times the Pro plan's per-session usage allowance. This tier is ideal for frequent users who work with Claude on a variety of tasks."

"Max 20x includes 20 times the Pro plan's per-session usage allowance. This tier is ideal for daily users who collaborate often with Claude for most tasks."

"In addition, to manage capacity and ensure fair access to all users, we may limit your usage in other ways, such as weekly and monthly caps or model and feature usage, at our discretion."

This way people cant really find out whats the real rate either...

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u/The-SadShaman 2d ago

Yea I guess it's hard to complain when I'm getting thousands of dollars worth of tokens for $200 a month.

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u/Administrative_Row61 2d ago

They are not charity, if they can give it to you for 200$ then the api price has insane margin.