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!

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.

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’ve seen a lot of mixed reports about hitting weekly usage limits on Claude.
Some people say it happens with Claude Pro (web), others never hit any limit when using Claude Code.

So I’d like to get a clearer picture from actual users here.

I’ll summarize results later for everyone — hopefully we can see if limits depend on version or usage type.

Am I missing something, or is the Claude Pro weekly limit completely absurd?

I just hit my cap (really fast I might add...). Fine, limits suck, whatever.

What's even more idiotic is that hitting the Pro limit... it cuts you off completely. You can't even revert back to the free account limits. Nothing.

So I paid $20, hit the "pro" limit, and now I literally can't use Claude at all until it resets.

My only option to send a simple prompt is to... what? Log out and register a whole new account with a different email? How does it make sense that I, a paying customer, am left with ZERO access?

This is a new level of "thanks for your money, now get lost." WTF Anthropic?!

I'm done. Won't be subscribing again.

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?

We've just reset weekly limits for all Claude users on paid plans.

We've seen members of this community hitting their weekly usage limits more quickly than they might have expected. This is driven by usage of Opus 4.1, which can cause you to hit the limits much faster than Sonnet 4.5.

To help during this transition, we've reset weekly limits for all paid Claude users.

Our latest model, Sonnet 4.5 is now our best coding model and comes with much higher limits than Opus 4.1. We recommend switching your usage over from Opus, if you want more usage. You will also get even better performance from Sonnet 4.5 by turning on "extended thinking" mode. In Claude Code, just use the tab key to toggle this mode on.

We appreciate that some of you have a strong affinity for our Opus models (we do too!). So we've added the ability to purchase extra usage if you're subscribed to the Max 20x plan. We’ll put together more guidance on choosing between our models in the coming weeks.

We value this community’s feedback. Please keep it coming – we want our models and products to work well for you.

I honestly don’t get it. Why on earth does Claude show me a message saying “Approaching weekly limit” when I’m literally paying for the subscription? Like… what’s the point of paying if I can’t use it freely?

I’m not spamming it, I’m not running massive jobs — just using it like any normal paying user would. And yet I get throttled as if I’m on a free plan. It’s ridiculous.

If you’re going to charge for “Pro” access, at least make it truly unlimited or transparent about how those limits work. Right now it feels like I’m renting my own frustration.

Has anyone else run into this? What’s even the limit supposed to be?

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.

So, dear user, we know you have a subscription but you have to wait 4 days to use our service again...

Hey everyone,

Not sure what’s going on, but starting today, I’m suddenly hitting my usage limits after only a few non coding related prompts (like 3–4). This has never happened before.

I didn’t change my plan, my workflow, or the size of my prompts. I’m using Claude Code normally, and out of nowhere it tells me I’m at my limit and blocks further use.

A couple things I’m trying to figure out:

• Is this happening to anyone else today specifically?

• Did Anthropic quietly change the quota calculations?

• Could it be a bug or rate-limit miscount?

• Is there any workaround people found? Logging out, switching networks, switching country, etc.?

It’s super frustrating because I literally can’t work with only a few prompts before getting locked out.

If anyone has info or experienced the same thing today, please let me know.

Thanks!

Okay, this has GOT to be the most frustrating experience in prompt engineering. I've been working with other products, have never had these issues in r/WarpDotDev, r/Trae_ai, r/FactoryAi, r/CursorAI or any of the numerous agents. Yeah, you run out of prompts you purchased.

Is Anthropic not well funded enough that they can absorb some of these costs? Did they miscalculate the business model? What is it? Because you're losing a ton of users due to this!! There has GOT to be a better way.

For me, I'm just going to go back to Warp and also try FactoryAI's Droid this month. I'm done with CC