Burned 45% of weekly usage (Max 20 Plan) in 24 hours lol (40+ Employees), anyone else seeing this?

Question

I’m honestly confused what has changed with the few latest updates.

For comp. on Opus 4.5 and Max 20 plan, we couldn't even hit 50-60% during an intense workweek and everyone was using those accounts at home as well, because we were never even close to hitting the limits so why not.

In the last 24 hours I burned just over 45% of my weekly usage by doing my normal workflow... and it’s not just me.

Same thing is happening to 40+ people on our team (all on Max 20). We’ve been using Opus 4.6 + Sonnet 4.6 basically since they dropped, and the way we work hasn’t really changed: same kinds of prompts, same amount of back and forth, etc.

But the usage drain feels wild compared to what we were used to and it feels like something shifted under the hood (token accounting? context handling? tool calls? rate limits? Everything!?).

P.S.. Not trying to rant, I just want to know if this is a “yes, that’s normal now” thing or if something is off, because as it seems, Anthropic is "silently" forcing everyone to go in to the Extra Usage "category"...

If you’ve seen similar, would love to hear what your usage looks like and what kind of workflow you’re running.

Posted Feb 20, 2026, 4:27 PM UTC

5654
Loading comments…