Original Reddit post

This is more of an observation than a complaint, but something feels different with Claude Code lately and I’m trying to understand if anything changed. I’ve been using it pretty heavily and even paid for the full year because I liked it. Before early April, it worked exactly how I expected. I could use it daily and never really had to think about API usage at all. Sometime around early April, I remember seeing a note about third-party tools drawing from “extra usage” instead of the subscription. I didn’t think much of it at the time, but the behavior I’m seeing now doesn’t really match what I was used to. Since then, it feels like usage might be getting routed differently. For example, I noticed API credits being consumed even though I wasn’t intentionally using the API, just using Claude Code the same way I always had. When I disabled API access to stop that, the CLI stopped working entirely, which makes it seem like it’s now dependent on API access in a way it wasn’t before. Another thing that stood out is that when I hit a usage restriction and a prompt doesn’t go through, it still seems like usage is being counted. That might be expected behavior, but it’s not something I had really noticed before. The usage dashboard also looks different than I expected. It shows almost no Claude Code usage in prior months, even though I was using it consistently, and then suddenly April shows activity and cost. That makes it a little hard to tell what’s actually changed versus what’s just being tracked differently now. Overall it just feels like something shifted in how usage is handled or billed, but it’s not very transparent from the outside. Curious if anyone else has noticed changes in how Claude Code behaves or how usage is being tracked recently. submitted by /u/NeoDynomite

Originally posted by u/NeoDynomite on r/ArtificialInteligence