Original Reddit post

I’m on the $100/month Claude plan, and my weekly limit resets every Sunday at 9 AM. After just two days, I’ve already burned through 73% of my weekly usage, leaving only 27% for the rest of the week.
Here are my stats:
● Monday: 146M tokens, 5h 9m active
● Tuesday: 1.515B tokens, 12h 10m active
● Total: 1.66B tokens across 17h 19m of active time
● Only 9.9M output tokens across both days
● 97–98% of tokens were cache reads, according to my breakdown
A huge amount of usage came from coordinator sessions repeatedly re-reading hundreds of millions of tokens of context.
Honestly, paying $100/month and potentially being unable to use Claude Code normally for most of the week after just two days feels ridiculous. I understand that agentic coding uses a lot of resources, but this seems excessive when so much of the token usage is cached context rather than new output.
Is anyone else running into this? How is the $100 plan supposed to be practical for serious coding if nearly three-quarters of the weekly allowance can disappear in two days?
Any ways to save tokens without cutting efficiency or quality?.
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/u/FaithlessnessFun2639

Originally posted by u/FaithlessnessFun2639 on r/ClaudeCode