8 weeks of Claude Code logs show where subagents and cache actually move the token bill
Blocboiven · reddit · 2026-07-24
A developer published 8 weeks of Claude Code usage logs and broke down what actually affects token consumption.
- The chart tracks one Mac from Jun 1 to Jul 24, 2026, across 13,600 requests.
- The main focus is output tokens per week, split between the main model and subagents.
- One annotated week shows subagents being forced to Sonnet, plus a codebase wiki being read instead of re-exploring the project.
- Another chart shows fresh input tokens per 1k output, with weekly numbers ranging roughly from 10K to 24.4K.
- The source data comes from local /.claude/projects//.jsonl logs, with cache hit rates between 92% and 97% and 3.35B cached reads versus 153M fresh input tokens.
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