A Reddit user says locally measured Claude Code token use rose from a 161 million-token previous-day average to 1.306 billion on October 27, an 8.1x increase. The user quoted Anthropic support saying retries triggered by elevated Claude Sonnet 5.5 errors count toward subscription limits and cannot be compensated. The figures include cache reads, are not actual charges, and do not establish that service incidents caused the entire increase.