Massive amounts of tokens in spending with "claude-fable-5-thinking-high"

[Colin]

@alorbach A lot of what you’re seeing are cache tokens! Have a look at my explanation here.

Why does Cursor consume an absurd amount of cache read tokens?

Hey all! This is effectively just going to rephrase @Andres_Cardona’s answer, but I hope it’s helpful. It might sound like it’s talking to beginners, but I want to make sure this is approachable for anybody reading! When you hover over Tokens on your usage page, the number you see is the aggregate across every LLM call that contributed to that request, not a single call. A single message in Cursor can (and typically does) trigger multiple LLM calls under the hood. The agent may read files, in…