Three reasons your Claude quota burns faster this week. Only one was announced.
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I analyzed 22,022 API calls from my own Claude Code sessions when switching from Fable 5 to 5.1: Fable 5 vs Fable 5.1 across 22,022 of my own API calls . tl;dr: Fable 5.1 consumes ~31% more tokens per prompt. Reason 1 (was never cleanly communicated): Cache pricing discount is ONLY applied for API…
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- 2026-09-16 14:50 · r/ClaudeAI
Three reasons your Claude quota burns faster this week. Only one was announced.