I would like to report what appears to be either a serious regression in Claude Code or a bug in how Max usage is currently being calculated. I have been using Claude Code heavily for months on the same production project. This is not a new repository, not a different workflow, and not a sudden increase in workload. A few months ago, while I was on the Max 20x plan, I could comfortably run 3–4 Claude Code sessions in parallel for approximately 3–4 hours before reaching my 5-hour usage window. Today, after switching to Max 5x , I can barely use a single Claude Code session for less than one hour before the entire 5-hour window is exhausted. The difference is so dramatic that it feels like either: usage accounting has changed significantly, Claude Code has become much more expensive internally, or there is simply a bug. Here are some concrete examples from today. I resumed an existing conversation and literally sent the message “continue” . That single message immediately reduced my available usage by approximately 3% . I ran one repository audit (approximately 1.5 million tokens processed by the agents). That single task consumed roughly 30% of my available 5-hour window. After that I mostly worked on lightweight tasks: updating documentation; improving help pages; editing localization strings; making small UI adjustments; finishing previously planned tasks. These were not large refactors, not major architecture changes, and not heavy code generation. In fact, the workload is considerably lighter than what I was doing several months ago. Previously I could perform large architectural reviews, reverse audits, project-wide refactoring and long coding sessions without worrying about my limits. Today I cannot even finish work that previously took me around four hours because the limits disappear almost immediately. I also occasionally receive unexpected server/content-policy restriction messages while working on an ordinary manicure/nail application. The project contains no policy-sensitive content, no copyrighted material, no unsafe functionality, and nothing that should reasonably trigger such restrictions. Anthropic recently announced increased Claude Code limits, including the temporary additional allowance for Max users. Unfortunately, my real-world experience is the exact opposite. Despite supposedly having more available usage, I am exhausting my limits several times faster than before. At this point Claude Code has become extremely difficult to use productively. I am not asking for more free usage. I simply want to understand whether: there is a known bug, usage accounting has changed, Max plans are currently behaving incorrectly, or something else is happening. Is anyone else experiencing similar behaviour on the same projects and similar workloads? I would also appreciate it if someone from the Anthropic team could investigate this, because the difference compared to a few months ago is enormous and has had a significant impact on my daily workflow. submitted by /u/Typical-Donut-8743
Originally posted by u/Typical-Donut-8743 on r/ClaudeCode