"An Anthropic customer and forum user who asked not to be identified provided The Register with screenshots of various Discord interactions and offered his assessment of the issue. He claims that there's been a roughly 60 percent reduction in token usage limits, based on a token-level analysis of Claude Code logs. He speculates that the changes represent an attempt to reduce costs prior to Anthropic's expected public stock offering, a claim Anthropic flatly denies."
"Evidence of concern among developers using Claude Code and other Claude services has surfaced on Reddit, where a recent post claims "Claude usage consumption has suddenly become unreasonable." Numerous participants in that discussion argue that model interactions now consume more tokens than they did previously, which results in the account usage limits being reached sooner. Other Reddit threads raise similar concerns. The Claude Developers Discord channel also includes a post from a developer claiming to have run out of token capacity on an enterprise account."
Developers using Anthropic's Claude Code report abrupt reductions in token usage limits and faster token consumption that drains allotments sooner. Some customers say rapid depletion occurred while performing light tasks and allege that Discord moderators silenced criticism. Anthropic attributes the apparent changes to expiration of a holiday usage bonus and asserts that discussion of usage limits is not restricted, stating any Discord bans reflect community policy violations. One customer reported a token-level analysis indicating roughly a 60 percent reduction in limits and suggested cost-cutting before a public offering, a claim Anthropic denies. Reddit and Discord threads contain multiple reports of increased per-interaction token use and rate-limit complaints. An Anthropic admin asked users to report inconsistencies for investigation.
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