[BUG] Says monthly spend usage hit but its really session usage limit hit.

[djvibe]

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• This is a single bug report (please file separate reports for different bugs)
• I am using the latest version of Claude Code

What's Wrong?

Bash(git log --oneline -5; git status --short; git diff HEAD --stat | tail -5)
⎿  11d53d99 chore: update feature dev manager status
5f899b27 chore: add cloud fallback alerts
591404b5 chore: refresh operator tldr summary
… +5 lines (ctrl+o to expand)
⎿  You've hit your monthly spend limit.
/usage-credits to adjust your monthly spend limit.

✻ Worked for 8s

❯ /usage

─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Settings Status Config Usage Stats

Session

Total cost: $62.58
Total duration (API): 1h 1m 21s
Total duration (wall): 19h 17m 5s
Total code changes: 2283 lines added, 206 lines removed
Usage by model:
claude-haiku-4-5: 225.1k input, 8.2k output, 0 cache read, 0 cache write, 16 web search ($0.4262)
claude-fable-5: 52.3k input, 203.8k output, 29.2m cache read, 1.1m cache write ($62.16)

Current session
██████████████████████████████████████████████████ 100% used
Resets 11:40am (America/Vancouver)

Current week (all models)
██████ 12% used
Resets Jun 18, 1am (America/Vancouver)

What's contributing to your limits usage?
Approximate, based on local sessions on this machine — does not include other devices or claude.ai

Last 24h · these are independent characteristics of your usage, not a breakdown

31% of your usage was at >150k context
Longer sessions are more expensive even when cached. /compact mid-task, /clear
when switching to new tasks.

Subagents % of usage
laravel-backend-expert 2%

d to day · w to week

Usage credits
Usage credits are off · /usage-credits to turn them on

Version: 2.1.172
Session name: Review loops and automations after recent changes
Session ID:

Model: claude-fable-5[1m]
MCP servers: 4 connected · /mcp
Setting sources: User settings, Shared project settings, Project local settings

Esc to cancel

What Should Happen?

say session limit hit . not monthly limit

Error Messages/Logs

Steps to Reproduce

hit limits for a session
then run /usage

Claude Model

Other

Is this a regression?

I don't know

Last Working Version

No response

Claude Code Version

2.1.172

Platform

Anthropic API

Operating System

Ubuntu/Debian Linux

Terminal/Shell

Terminal.app (macOS)

Additional Information

Version: 2.1.172
Session name: Review loops and automations after recent changes
Session ID: 6801b70d-8e9e-4c62-a846-6dbbbf2e280b
cwd:
Login method: Claude

Model: claude-fable-5[1m]
MCP servers: 4 connected · /mcp
Setting sources: User settings, Shared project settings, Project local settings

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[github-actions]

Found 1 possible duplicate issue:

1. [BUG] You've hit your org's monthly usage limit #52908

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This issue has been automatically closed as a duplicate of #52908.

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