"The Register reports that on forums, Reddit, and in the official Claude Developers Discord channel, developers indicate that their token consumption has suddenly increased significantly. As a result, accounts would reach their maximum within minutes or hours, whereas similar tasks previously posed little problem. Some users claim that their available token space appears to have decreased by tens of percent, based on analyses of their own log files."
"Anthropic refutes these conclusions. According to the company, the observed changes are the result of the termination of a temporary doubling of usage limits that applied around the holidays. Between Christmas and New Year's Eve, customers were given extra capacity to utilize unused computing power, as many business customers were less active during that period. Now that the bonus has expired, the limits have simply returned to normal levels."
"However, developers experience this differently. Several users indicate that they reach their limit remarkably quickly without intensive coding work, for example when reading documentation or reviewing specifications. They also point to missing or incomplete usage statistics in the management console, which makes it difficult to determine exactly where the high consumption is coming from. The concerns are not limited to individual subscriptions. There are also reports from business accounts that token limits are being reached faster than expected."
Developers using Claude Code report hitting usage limits much faster than before, even during light tasks such as reading documentation or reviewing specifications. Many users observe sudden large increases in token consumption and reductions in available token space based on log analysis. Anthropic says limits returned to normal after a temporary, holiday-period doubling of capacity ended between Christmas and New Year's Eve. Missing or incomplete usage statistics in the management console make pinpointing consumption sources difficult. Business accounts also report faster-than-expected limit exhaustion, prompting speculation about cost-saving measures as Anthropic adjusts capacity allocation.
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