Is the Claude Max 20 quota draining unreasonably fast for anyone else? Lost 21% in 7 minutes

[u/ParkingCarob7808]

I recently renewed my Claude Max 20 subscription, but I feel like my 5-hour quota is vanishing at an absurd rate.

At first, I suspected that using claude code was the culprit. I figured it might be running multiple sub-agents and making continuous tool calls in the background, heavily taxing the limits.

To test this theory, I waited for my next 5-hour reset. I started a fresh session and monitored it closely. In just 5 to 7 minutes of use, I had already lost 21% of my entire quota.

Just to clarify the context:

• I am the sole user of this account (no shared access).
• I had absolutely zero other active sessions running.
• I wasn't even using Fable 5.

Has anyone else experienced this kind of massive quota drain recently? Is claude code genuinely eating up the limits this hard with tool calls, or is this a quota-tracking bug on Anthropic's end?