Anthropic Accused of Artificially Inflating Token Usage
suchenzang · x · 2026-07-11
Reports claim some Anthropic sales staff resigned after being pushed to promote usage strategies that deliberately waste tokens.
The post notes that a customer's monthly token spend could surge from around $1,000 to $90,000, citing complaints that Claude Desktop is "very buggy" and feels like a "token maxxing scam".
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