MAX20 subscriber burns through Fable quota in 7 hours on High, asks what effort tiers actually buy
Sean_NobleThreads · reddit · 2026-09-09
A longtime MAX20 subscriber reports that after switching Fable from the default Medium to High effort, he exhausted his quota in roughly 7 hours on a single simple Shopify landing-page project — whereas he used to juggle 5-7 projects indefinitely on OPUS 5 at MAX effort.
His core question is what Medium vs High effort actually trades off in quality versus token burn, and he suspects the consumption rate reflects Anthropic's metering rather than his own usage. The thread is a useful data point on how effort tiers affect quota on coding plans.
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