Need a way to gauge usage and how close to the limit when using a Claude Max plan
Status Fixed / completed
Maintainer reply ✓ Yes — dicksontsai
Activity 5 comments · opened Jun 6, 2025 · closed Jun 7, 2025
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (dicksontsai, collaborator)
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I'm on the Claude Max plan and am trying to gauge how much I can use Opus 4 vs Sonnet, how many sessions I can have in parallel, and how long I can code for before hitting the 5-hour limit, how soon to the session window resets the usage, etc.
/cost just says no need to monitor it's include in your subscription.
The Anthropic web console only shows usage for API credit usage. There's no metrics for subscription plan usage.
I would like a way to see my current usage on a plan.
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Claude Max plans, like Claude Pro plans, do not expose usage limit metrics _by design_, since the availability is always subject to change.
https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/11014257-about-claude-s-max-plan-usage
In Claude Code, we expose the timestamp at which the rate limit resets. The 5-hour window starts upon your first message.
I don't understand why this is not possible to display. It would help me:
somehow this information IS available to the CC client since the defaul model choice relies on knowing when 20% is up
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Also, there is no display of the remaining time in the 5h window, as @dicksontsai stated above.
Part of the issue I have in Claude Code via Max is that even the /cost command doesn't work. I have no indication of how much usage of any unit I am consuming. I want to have some ballpark indicator of where I am at to make good decisions. Even if that's a fuzzy and unitless number.
For example, say I have Claude Code working on something that is nice-to-have, but not critical. I know I need to do some more work in the next few hours on something that is more critical. If my usage is at 10%, I will likely continue on the current work with Claude Code. If my usage is 70%, though, I'll probably hold on more requests in that thread until later when my usage % drops or I expect to need Claude Code less in the near future.
I am not asking for Anthropic to specify exact token counts or some exact number of requests. I want a ballpark. Round it to the nearest 10% if needed. I don't want to have to hit the limit to be able to gauge where it is!
hi @dicksontsai, not that I could see. When I hit the limit today, it just said I hit the limit. There's nothing like a timestamp anywhere. FYI. It may well be by design, but that design feels super unfriendly; please add my voice to those asking for some better indication of when you'll hit the limit.
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