Token math suggests quota-hungry users may be behind Anthropic's aggressive bans
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-30
teortaxesTex speculates that Anthropic's aggressive account bans are partly driven by penny-pinching heavy users (particularly from Russia and China) who relentlessly drive agents and exhaust quota.
He cites a ChatGPT Pro estimate that such workloads consume roughly 1/4 of a $200 plan's monthly capacity. His cost math: Claude Opus 5.5 tokens on a Max subscription are only 4x more expensive than V4.1F's OpenCode Go tokens, but Opus 5.5 completes tasks in far fewer tokens (exponentially fewer on harder tasks), making it the better deal beyond a certain workload complexity.
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