Claude Max users say longer thinking burns through quotas fast enough to feel like a price hike
MartinGTobias · x · 2026-07-26
A user jokes that they burned through their Claude Max tokens and that longer reasoning now feels like a price hike.
- The attached image shows usage bars for All models and Fable.
- All models is at 75% used.
- Fable is at 100% used.
- The punchline is that enabling longer thinking quickly consumes the subscription’s quota, making it feel like an implicit price increase.
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