Claude Max runs out faster when longer thinking turns into an effective price hike
MartinGTobias · x · 2026-07-24
A user says they burned through their Claude Max tokens in a day while using Fable.
The punchline is that longer thinking feels like a price increase: if a model spends more tokens to reason, the effective cost of using it rises even when the sticker price does not change.
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