Bug(?) Insane Usage Consumption Spike Today

Pro account user here - today, I ran out of my 5 hour usage limit with TWO creative writing prompts, using what I usually use: Opus 4.6, medium effort, extended thinking on, cross-chat memory turned OFF, and every other setting on default. Normally it takes anywhere from 50-100 prompts of the same complexity and scope as the ones I wrote today to hit my 5 hour limit. Tried using some credits to run a couple of test prompts (one of them in a different chat altogether) just to see if it was a bad prompt(s) and made Claude freak out and burn up my usage, which has happened a couple times in the past in a few isolated incidents (but never more than once in a session). Using credits, mine normally cost between $0.03 to $0.15 per prompt (again, my prompts today haven't been any more complex than normal); so, needless to say, when the three additional test prompts I did today cost $3.56, $3.80 and $5.10 respectively - the $5.10 one happening AFTER I deleted a bunch of chats, thinking that maybe somehow my global token usage had passed a certain threshold - I was very surprised, and pretty pissed off. The chats that these happened in were nowhere near the longest ones I've run, with one having only 1 .md that I made it reference on occasion and the other having none. For comparison, I've had up to 5 on past chats that I reference CONSTANTLY without (usage) issues across all currently available Opus models. Does anyone know what is going on here? Has anyone else noticed this today specifically? submitted by /u/thechimplord [link] [comments]