Claude Code Just Got 5x More Expensive

pvankessel

Anecdotally this tracks what I've felt over the past month, though I haven't rigorously quantified it. I've just been burning through my quota considerably more quickly than I was a week ago. Hitting limits I didn't before. I hit my weekly max yesterday, it resets tomorrow so I asked my admin to add $50 to my overage limit so I could bridge the gap. Burned that in an hour, I was astounded. Two weeks ago that much bought me two days of work. I asked for another $10 so I could simply have Claude dump handoff notes that could be picked up by Codex, and got through 4 of the 10 agents I'd had running before running out. When it resets tomorrow I'm setting the default back to 4.7, my strong suspicion is 4.8 was designed to lighten the load by burning more quota (not necessarily tokens) on the backend. I don't understand the mechanism but they're clearly putting the squeeze on power users. Curious what others have experienced.

cyanydeez

im assuming theyve changed how their kv cache works by evicting users of any cluster after an hour and likely prioritize active users and poorly maintain claude code. theyre googling themselves at light speed.

psyclobe

I have one Claude doing triple duty: helping with side gigs, supporting my corporate job when the company-provided Claude tokens run out at lightning speed, and helping me develop a startup on the side, which I’m literally just voicing into existence. At $260 a month, it’s a bargain. I’d pay double without blinking.