Comment by serf
2 days ago
Add a 5 hour timer so that us with MAX subs can know when to come back to our Opus work.
I like it. thanks for the effort.
2 days ago
Add a 5 hour timer so that us with MAX subs can know when to come back to our Opus work.
I like it. thanks for the effort.
I was thinking that on this, folks need a cron task to run a trivial prompt at 5-6am and get that 5hr timer running so that it the majority of the quota is available in the working day morning, and then a new 5hr block starts around lunch time. This should maximise use of included tokens by a standard work day spanning 3 blocks rather than 2
Also useful for paid APIs like DeepSeek's, where they have cheaper inference price (50%/75% off) for UTC 16:30-00:30, so being able to schedule some stuff you know would take a ton of tokens for that time period would make sense.
It hard resets limits every 5 hours instead of a sliding window?
That’s what their usage warning prompts seem to indicate.
Thinking of switching from API access to Max 20x tomorrow for a more consistent bill.
Been using $50-100 of Opus tokens through API access per day. Think I’ll hit the Max 20x limits and get put in timeout?
I wish Max could automatically overflow to API access when it times out so I would need to have token anxiety.
I moved to Max after projecting a $2,000 annual API bill. I haven't yet hit five hour limits, but login/ toggles easily between plans. I believe the interface tells you when you've hit a limit, but as I said I don't know first hand.
According to CCUsage, I hit limits on Opus usage around the equivalent of $150. If we naively extrapolate, that suggests about $600 of Opus usage per session on Max 20x.
Can you help me understand how that works?
I thought you needed an API key to work with Claude Code
They give you Claude Code usage on all the paid plans now. A certain amount of usage is shared between Chat and Code.
Not all paid plans, just Max. Pro doesn’t get access to Claude Code.
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