I'm a bit confused by people hitting usage limits so quickly.

I use Opus exclusively and don't hit limits. ccusage reports I'm using the API-equivalent of $2000/mo

You always have to ask which plan they're paying for. Sometimes people complain about the $20 per month plan...

There's no Opus quota on that plan at all.

In this case I'm replying to someone who lead with "I'm on the Max plan" but I realize now that's ambiguous, maybe they are on 5x while I'm on 20x.

That's insane. Are you accounting for caching? If not, there's no way this is going to last

I'm using ccusage to get the number, I think it just looks at your history and calculates based on tokens vs API pricing. So I think it wouldn't account for caching.

But I totally agree there's no way it lasts. I'm mostly only using this for side projects and I'm sitting there interacting with it, not YOLO'ing, I do sometimes have two sessions going at the same time but I'm not firing off swarms or anything crazy. Just have it set to Opus and I chat with it.

Claude Code definitely reports cached tokens, and I think CCusage does too, so it wouldn’t make sense for the calculation to be based on full pricing when they have the cached values.

Is this on x5? Because ever since they booted all the freeloaders I’ve not once seen the “you are approaching usage limits” message. Anyway, the “you are approaching usage limits” message shows up when you are over 50% of your tokens for that timeframe, so it’s not sure useful.

Yeah, you need to actively cherry pick which model to use in order to not waste tokens on stuff that would be easily handed by a simpler model.

same here constantly hit the Opus limits after minutes on Max plan