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Cost and usage issues on VS Code — page 3

Issues the maintainers labelled both platform:vscode and area:cost.

248 issues · 59 open · 189 resolved (76%) · first seen Feb 26, 2026

Is this getting better or worse?

This class of problem is converging. 70 new reports in the last 90 days vs 124 in the 90 before — -44%. The open backlog peaked at 65 in 2026-04 and sits at 59 today.

0 16 33 49 65 2026-022026-052026-082026-10
2026-02 — First reports2026-04 — Peak backlog (65 open)

Derived by counting each matching issue from its creation date until it closed. First-party computation over the anthropics/claude-code tracker — the trend is not published anywhere upstream.

Which builds report this

193 of these reports name the Claude Code build they were running, spanning 101 releases. Heaviest reporters:

Report volume, not a defect count: an issue can mention a build without that build having caused the failure. Versions come from the version string in the bug-report template, matched against real published tags.

Do these get fixed?

Median time to close is 35 days across 189 closures. Of the 189 closures with a recorded reason, 8% were closed as completed and 174 as not-planned or duplicate. The most recent completed fix landed in 2026-08.

Workarounds reported by the community

21 of these issues post a workaround someone says worked. The highest-engagement ones:

[BUG] Abnormal rate limit consumption — 1-2 prompts exhausting 5-hour window
1-2 prompts exhausting the limit sounds like the cache creation bug others have reported in 38350. The token accounting seems broken. While waiting for a fix, multi-model routing h
Found in the thread of #38345 · still open
Claude Code changed default model to 1M context without notifying Pro users
…overnight. I lost hours trying to debug the issue, applying workarounds (environment variables, settings.json), and ultimately had to downgrade to a smaller context model — losing functionality I was already using and pa…
Found in the description of #62199 · still open
Max plan: usage exhausted abnormally fast, twice in one day (March 31)
…o dropped to 4.3% (effectively ~20x token inflation). After workarounds it recovered to 89–99% . Full analysis + workarounds: Important caveat: All my testing was done in the CLI environment ( in terminal, Linux). Since…
Found in the thread of #41504 · still open
[BUG] Usage credits required for 1M context - Pro plan blocked despite 17% usage
…ses, making --model flag and CLAUDE CODE DISABLE 1M CONTEXT workarounds ineffective. Versions tested: 2.1.104 (WinGet), 2.1.6 (npm), 2.0.0 (npm) — all produce the same error. To use Claude Code at all, I was forced to pu…
Found in the description of #65514 · still open
93% rate limit consumed in ~3 minutes on fresh session (Max plan, v2.1.85)
….3% , meaning ~20x token inflation per turn. After applying workarounds it stabilized at 89-99% . Full analysis with per-request measured data, safe workarounds, and community references (including [cc-cache-fix](
Found in the thread of #39938 · resolved

Excerpts are quoted from the linked issue so you can judge relevance before opening it. Threads that only ask for a workaround, or report that there is none, are excluded. These are community suggestions, not official guidance from Anthropic — read the full thread before applying one.

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