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Claude usage drain complaints spike as a 50% extra-usage promotion quietly ended September 13
A 492-upvote, 198-comment r/ClaudeAI thread reports a single session consuming 15% of a weekly limit, implying six or seven sessions exhausts the allowance. The thread's auto-generated consensus identifies the trigger most users missed: a 50% extra usage promotion that ran from May through 2026-09-13 has ended. The widely repeated complaint is that current drain feels worse than pre-promotion levels, which the promotion's expiry alone would not explain. Reported across Pro, Max 20x and Claude Code tiers, with a visible wave of cancellations and switches to Codex; several who switched report comparable limits there.
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