[BUG] $115 Total cost on Max subscription while weekly quota bar sits at 73% - charged despite available plan capacity?
What happened
On a Max (Stripe subscription) plan, a single Claude Code session shows $115.85 "Total cost" while my plan-quota bars are well under 100% — Current week (all models) at 73% used, Current session at 33% used (reset Jul 12, 1:59pm PT). This matches the "extra usage charged despite available plan capacity" pattern in #32544 and the double-charge pattern in #23315.
I want to confirm whether real dollars were charged versus this being a cost-equivalent display, because the numbers diverge from the quota bars.
Environment
- Claude Code (VS Code), Windows 10
- Plan: Max,
billingType: stripe_subscription - No
ANTHROPIC_API_KEYset (verified in Machine/User/Process env); noapiKeyHelper, no Bedrock/Vertex config - Default model was
claude-fable-5[1m](1M-context), later switched to Opus
Usage panel (verbatim)
Total cost: $115.85
Total duration (API): 2h 25m 37s | (wall): 3h 9m 8s
Usage by model:
claude-haiku-4-5: 14.4k in, 513 out, 0 cache read, 1 cache write ($0.0270)
claude-fable-5: 78.4k in, 157.2k out, 38.8M cache read, 809.8k cache write ($63.60)
claude-sonnet-5: 80.1k in, 473.8k out, 90.8M cache read, 2.4M cache write ($43.67)
claude-opus-4-8: 18.0k in, 61.4k out, 4.6M cache read, 635.5k cache write ($8.55)
Current session: 33% used (resets 10:29pm PT)
Current week (all models): 73% used (resets Jul 12, 1:59pm PT)
Current week (Fable): 95% used (resets Jul 12, 1:59pm PT)
The question
- Is the
$115.85 Total costa charge to my payment method, or a cost-equivalent metric drawn against the (sub-100%) weekly plan allowance? - If a charge: why, given the weekly bar is at 73% with capacity remaining? This is the exact "charged despite available plan capacity" symptom in #32544.
- Note the enormous cache-read volume (38.8M + 90.8M ≈ 130M tokens one session) — is cache-read metered against plan quota or billed as extra usage?
Expected
Cost display and plan-quota bars should agree; usage under 100% of a weekly allowance should not incur extra-usage dollar charges on a subscription plan.
Related: #32544, #23315
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