opus 5.5 usage is honestly great. ~7 agents nonstop since sunday reset, 76% left (20x)
A user reports positive experiences with opus 5.5, noting that 7 agents have been running nonstop since the Sunday reset, consuming only 24% of the weekly quota after 34 hours. This heavy load, described as more intense than typical usage, still leaves 76% of the quota remaining. The user questions how Anthropic achieved this efficiency and whether it will extend to sonnet 5.5 and fable 5.5, also inquiring about usage for max 5x as some users are downgrading from 20x.
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PublishedOffset at this time: UTC+0Sep 28, 2026, 18:43 UTC
IngestedOffset at this time: UTC+0Sep 29, 2026, 02:00 UTC
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- Sep 28, 2026, 18:43
- Ingested
- Sep 29, 2026, 02:00
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- Community
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- Healthy
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weekly reset was sunday 10:00 (stockholm). since then i've had 5-10 opus 5.5 agents on medium, running full time. around 7 on average.
it's monday 20:00 now. 34 hours in = 24% of the weekly quota used.
so ~20% of the week gone and 24% used, with a way heavier load than most people run. can't keep this pace all 7 days, but saturday is always slow for me anyway. and if i hit the wall early there's still the banked reset anthropic gave us.
how the heck did anthropic achieve this and is this temporary? will it be the same for sonnet 5.5 and fable 5.5?
how is the usage for max 5x, i see people actually downgrading from 20x now?