I Tracked 42,363 Claude Code API Calls. Here's Where Your Quota Actually Goes.

I pay $200/month for Claude Code Max 20. On April 1, my quota hit 100% in 70 minutes during normal coding. That turned out to be two cache bugs — Anthropic fixed them in v2.1.90–91, and it made a real difference. But even after the fix, I wanted to understand where the quota actually goes. So I filed issues, dug into community threads, and built a transparent proxy to measure every API call. ...

April 6, 2026 · 8 min · ArkNill