Reddit user suspects Sonnet 5.5 burns through usage limits suspiciously fast
paulofilip3 · reddit · 2026-10-04
A Reddit user reports that Sonnet 5.5 matches Opus 5.5 on coding while being faster, but drains his Max subscription quota far quicker than expected — with Fable he easily got half a week of nonstop usage, while Sonnet 5.5 exhausted his limit in a few days. He suspects something is off with the usage accounting and asks whether others see the same.
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