Why did my Claude Max weekly usage jump overnight?

The weekly cap is separate from the 5-hour session and can move from other Claude clients on the same plan. Check whether the number is the official usage endpoint or a stale local estimate.

Can Usage HUD explain Anthropic’s accounting?

No. It shows the official weekly and 5-hour readings with a confidence label so you can tell a live official number from a stale one.

Claude Max weekly window

Weekly usage jumped. You barely used it.

People on Max 20x keep reporting the same thing: the weekly meter was at a few percent after reset, then it jumped tens of points without a matching Claude Code session. Support and the model itself often cannot explain the gap between the 5-hour window and the weekly cap.

Usage HUD cannot rewrite Anthropic’s accounting. It can put the official weekly number, the 5-hour number, and the reset time in the Mac menu bar, each with a confidence label — official, measured or estimated — and a one-line reason. A stale official reading is labeled stale instead of looking live. That is the doctor: you know whether you are looking at the same endpoint as /usage, or at a number that has stopped updating.

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What to check before you panic

Is this the weekly cap or the 5-hour window?

Max still has both. Burning the 5-hour session does not always move weekly the way you expect, and weekly can move from other Claude surfaces on the same plan. If you only watch one number, the jump looks like a bug.

Is the number official?

Usage HUD reads the same usage endpoint Claude Code’s /usage panel reads. It does not refresh or change your token. If that endpoint says 50%, the meter is not inventing 50%. If the endpoint is quiet, the label says so.

Did another client spend it?

Claude Desktop, the web app, and Claude Code share plan windows. A jump that “wasn’t me in the terminal” is often another client on the same Max seat.

Get Usage HUD

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Download for Mac

The download is a notarized disk image. Drag Usage HUD to Applications, open it, then click Set up.

Your Mac: macOS 14 or later, Apple silicon or Intel.
Claude and Codex: Claude Code or Codex signed in. Nothing else to install for those two lanes.
Gemini and Grok: those lanes need Node.js 18 or later.
Local models: the local lane reads your Ollama logs.

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