You are burning through your Claude credits by lunch.

8 ways to get 3x from your subscription:

People hit their limit and blame the plan.

The real problem is how they use it.

1. Use the right model

- Haiku handles 80% of daily work.

- Sonnet covers the next 15% of work.

- Opus is for the 5% that genuinely needs it.

Don't leave Opus on and burn through your limit.

2. Turn off the token burners

- Extended Thinking doubles your usage.

- Web Search enabled adds 2 to 3x.

- Connectors add 1.5 to 2x.

Leave them all off by default and only turn them on when the task demands it.

3. Edit, do not stack

- Click edit on your message.

- Claude only re-reads the new version.

- You skip the full conversation reload every time.

One edit saves more tokens than a new message.

4. Fresh chat every 15 messages

- Message 1 costs around 200 tokens.

- By message 15 you are spending 10,000.

- By message 30 a single question costs 50,000+.

Summarise what you have, open a new chat, paste it in.

5. Batch questions into one

- Three messages means three context loads.

- One combined message means one load.

- Claude sees the full picture at once.

The answers are better too.

6. Spread your work across the day

- Claude runs on a 5-hour rolling window.

- Burn through it in one session and you wait.

- Split into 2 to 3 sessions and quota frees up.

Space your work and your oldest messages expire automatically.

7. Use Projects for repeat files

- Same PDF in five chats costs five token loads.

- Projects cache your uploaded files once.

- Every new chat reads them free.

Upload once and stop wasting tokens on the same file.

8. Store your context once

- Memory for Chat.

- claude.md for Code.

- Skills for repeated workflows.

Write these once. Never repeat yourself.

I covered every Claude feature in this week's newsletter with the full setup for each.

Read it here → charliehills.substack.c…

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