So Anthropic claimed that their new weekly usage limits would only impact “less than 2% of users.” Spoiler alert: That’s complete BS. Here’s what’s actually happening: • Pro users hitting weekly Opus limits in 1-2 days of normal usage Max 20x subscribers (yes, the highest paid tier) getting restricted • People burning through 80% of Opus quota in a few hours without hitting the old 5-hour conversation limit • 50% of total model quota disappearing in a single day of regular use The math ain’t mathing. If 2% means “basically everyone who uses the service regularly,” then sure, 2%. My experience: I hit my Opus 4 limit on a Tuesday. Not because I was doing anything crazy - just normal conversations and work tasks. Meanwhile ChatGPT’s limits are also getting ridiculous (my Codex is locked for 24 hours as I write this). The real problem: It’s not just about the limits themselves. It’s the unpredictability. You can’t plan your work around these restrictions when they kick in seemingly at random and the stated policies don’t match reality. For those of us who switched from ChatGPT specifically to avoid this kind of limitation mess - welcome back to limitation hell, I guess? To Anthropic: Either fix the quotas to match actual reasonable usage patterns, or stop pretending this only affects 2% of users. The gaslighting isn’t helping. Anyone else experiencing this? What are your actual usage numbers looking like? Edit based on comments: Seeing reports that even users who barely touch Claude during the week are suddenly hitting limits. Something is clearly broken with how usage is being calculated.

I’m on the $50 plan and recently got a “Weekly limit reached” message, even though I’ve barely used Claude Code this week.

When I checked with

ccusage blocks --period week

the actual usage looks very low (see screenshot).

the PROJECTED value keeps increasing and shows several hundred percent over the limit — which doesn’t make sense.

Is anyone else experiencing something similar?
Could this be a bug in how the projection is calculated?

Thanks!

I've been using Claude Code for two months so far and have never hit the limit. But yesterday it stopped working and gave a cooldown for 4 days. If its limit resets every 5 hours, why a cooldown for 4 days? I tried usage-based pricing, and it charged $10 in 10 minutes. Is there something wrong with new update of Claude code?

This Megathread is to discuss your thoughts, concerns and suggestions about the changes involving the Weekly Usage Limits implemented alongside the recent Claude 4.5 release. Please help us keep all your feedback in one place so we can prepare a report for Anthropic's consideration about readers' suggestions, complaints and feedback. This also helps us to free the feed for other discussion. For discussion about recent Claude performance and bug reports, please use the Weekly Performance Megathread instead.

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Recent related Anthropic announcement : https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1ntq8tv/introducing_claude_usage_limit_meter/

Original Anthropic announcement here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1mbo1sb/updating_rate_limits_for_claude_subscription/

UPDATE: Anthropic have posted an update here :

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1nvnafs/update_on_usage_limits/

I was using Claude Code like usual and I noticed a message saying approaching weekly limit. Next thing I know, 75% weekly limit used. It resets on Monday, and today is just the 2nd day of the week. Absolute scam. I have never ever approached the weekly limit with the $200 max plan before. The most terrible part is that this sudden change in weekly limits was never communicated to us. I really love claude code but I cannot work with random restrictions on my usage out of the blue.