How to check your Claude usage

On claude.ai: Settings → Usage

1. Sign in at claude.ai.
2. Open Settings, then Usage. You can also go straight to claude.ai/settings/usage.

What you'll see

• Current session. How much of your five-hour session limit you've used, with "Resets in X hr Y min". If you've been idle, it reads "Starts when a message is sent", meaning no session is running.
• Weekly limits. An All models bar for your weekly limit, plus separate bars for specific models that have their own limit. Each shows when it resets. Your weekly reset is a fixed day and time assigned to your account.
• Usage credits. Pay-as-you-go usage that keeps you going after a limit, with your balance, this month's spend, an optional monthly spend limit, and auto-reload. Turn them on from the web.

In Claude Code: /usage

Type /usage at the prompt. It also works as /cost or /tokens, and it runs immediately even while Claude is responding. On a Pro, Max, Team, or Enterprise plan you get:

• Plan usage bars for your limits, plus activity stats.
• A usage breakdown of recent usage attributed to skills, subagents, plugins, and individual MCP servers, each as a share of the total.
• Behavior flags for things like long context or cache misses when they account for 10% or more of recent usage, each with a tip.
• Heavy loops, a row for each of the heaviest /loop or scheduled tasks that ran recently.
• A usage-credits row when credits are on, showing this month's spend against your monthly spend limit, or "Unlimited".

Press d or w to switch the breakdown between the last 24 hours and the last 7 days. The breakdown is approximate and built from session history on that machine, so it doesn't include claude.ai or other devices. The plan bars are your account's limits.

Useful related commands

• /status shows your current model, context usage, and session details. It doesn't show plan limits.
• /usage-credits opens Settings → Usage on claude.ai for Pro and Max subscribers.
• /rate-limit-options is the menu for waiting out a limit and continuing automatically.

Using the VS Code extension? The same breakdown appears in its Account & usage dialog.

When to check

• Before a big task. A long document review, a Research run, or a big refactor in Claude Code can take a large bite out of a session.
• When a chat gets long. Each reply processes the whole conversation, so long threads use up the session faster. A fresh chat with a short summary is usually cheaper.
• Midweek. Compare your weekly bar with how many days remain until your reset. Being at 60% with one day left is fine. Being at 60% with five days left is not.
• After a warning. If you see "Approaching 5-hour limit." or a 90% warning, check the reset time. See what the 90% warning means.

Already at the limit?

The limit message shows your reset time. Paste it into the reset countdown to get an alert when you're back, or read when Claude limits reset. To understand what the bars measure, see Claude usage limits explained.