[mock-possum]

How many sessions are you running simultaneously, how careful are you being about token consumption and context window management, and what level of reasoning are you using (with which models?)

8hrs a day doesn’t really mean anything without a lot additional qualifiers.

fwiw lately I’ve been straddling 2 or 3 claude codes and one Claude cowork, primarily on 4.7 with high effort - the company’s paying for it, so I’m doing my best to burn as many tokens as I have the mental capacity to manage. At that rate, the 100 account is completely necessary, I was blowing through my 4-hour limits consistently before requisitioning an upgrade.

[kkarpkkarp]

at most I run 2-3, but usually one.

About token consumption and models: that's the thing. I hear this question often, but my answer is always the same. As I am Cursor user, I run it always in Auto mode (so Cursor decides which model to use, I don't even know which is in use).

Sometimes I switch from Auto to defined model but I found it quickly triggers "you are out of tokens" notices so nope: I stick to Auto :) 20 usd / month and that's it

[nebben64]

> "you are out of tokens" notices

there's your answer. You're likely a heavy user. It's just that in this particular case Auto is shuffling models & reasoning efforts just right so you stay afloat.

There are a lot caveats when people say they're running out credits in hours: lots of people runnings clawS (multiple) 24/7; lots of people using Agent Teams or similar; lots of people just max reasoning for everything; etc.

If you get your work done in the 20 plan, thank the credit Gods and sleep easy. Price hikes are probably coming, or just reasons to draw more credits out from you in one form or another (e.g. new OAI device draws from you 20 sub to use)