Productivity · Tabnews · 🇧🇷 Brazil
Estimating how long your AI plan will last before it runs out
A dev published an open calculation to estimate how many tokens fit into the Pro/Max plans.
- Profession
- Developer
- Tools
- Claude Code, Codex
- Source
- tabnews.com.br ↗
- Country
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- Report date
- October 20, 2026
- Verified on
- October 24, 2026
What they did
Built a calculator with sources and assumptions about the 5-hour window and weekly limit.
How it went
The author discloses that they built the calculator and a related app. The numbers are estimates, not official data.
Good to know
Providers don't publish the size of their plans, so treat any estimate with caution.
The prompt
I use [tool] with [n] agents, [duration] sessions and the [model] model. Help me estimate my weekly usage and suggest 3 routine changes so I don't hit the limit.
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