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.

Latest Performance Report: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1n4o701/claude_performance_report_with_workarounds_august/

Full record of past Megathreads and Reports : https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/wiki/megathreads/

Why a Performance Discussion Megathread?

This Megathread should make it easier for everyone to see what others are experiencing at any time by collecting all experiences. Most importantly, this will allow the subreddit to provide you a comprehensive periodic AI-generated summary report of all performance issues and experiences, maximally informative to everybody. See the previous period's performance report here https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1n4o701/claude_performance_report_with_workarounds_august/

It will also free up space on the main feed to make more visible the interesting insights and constructions of those using Claude productively.

What Can I Post on this Megathread?

Use this thread to voice all your experiences (positive and negative) as well as observations regarding the current performance of Claude. This includes any discussion, questions, experiences and speculations of quota, limits, context window size, downtime, price, subscription issues, general gripes, why you are quitting, Anthropic's motives, and comparative performance with other competitors.

So What are the Rules For Contributing Here?

All the same as for the main feed (especially keep the discussion on the technology)

• Give evidence of your performance issues and experiences wherever relevant. Include prompts and responses, platform you used, time it occurred. In other words, be helpful to others.

• The AI performance analysis will ignore comments that don't appear credible to it or are too vague.

• All other subreddit rules apply.

Do I Have to Post All Performance Issues Here and Not in the Main Feed?

Yes. This helps us track performance issues, workarounds and sentiment and keeps the feed free from event-related post floods.

This Megathread is to discuss your thoughts, concerns and suggestions about the changes involving the Weekly Usage Limits. Please help us keep them all in one place so we can prepare a report for Anthropic's consideration about readers' feedback. This also helps us to free the feed for other discussion.

Announcement details here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1mbo1sb/updating_rate_limits_for_claude_subscription/

UPDATE (August 6): Usage Limits Discussion Report now available : https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1mj0eyf/usage_limits_megathread_discussion_report_july_28/

I’m running Claude Code with the Max $200 plan. I used to be able to run a single window for roughly the whole five hours before running out of context. But for the past 2 days, I’ve only gotten about an hour, and then I have to wait 4. My plan hasn’t changed. It’s not an especially large codebase. I’m not doing anything crazy.

Is there some cache that needs to be cleared, or something I should make sure is not in my Claude.md file? Tips/hints/suggestions? At 1 hour out of every 5 this is unusable. :-(

UPDATE: it was a misconfigured hook. When I removed it, everything returned to normal. (Phew!) Lots of useful suggestions in the thread — thanks all!

This Megathread is a continuation of the discussion of 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.

Please try to be as constructive as possible and include as much evidence as possible. Be sure to include what plan you are on. Feel free to link out to images.

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/

Anthropic's update on usage limits post here : https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1nvnafs/update_on_usage_limits/

Last week's Megathread: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1nu9wew/usage_limits_discussion_megathread_beginning_sep/

Megathread's response to Anthropic's usage limits update post here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1o1wn34/megathreads_response_to_anthropics_post_update_on/

Currently my main AI tool develop with is cursor. Within the subscription I can use it unlimited, although I get slower responses after a while.

I tried Claude Code a few times with 5 dollars credit each time. After a few minutes the 5 dollar is gone.

I don't mind paying the 100 or even 200 for the max, if I can be sure that I van code full time the whole month. If I use credits, I'd probably end up with a 3000 dollar bill.

What are your experiences as full time developers?

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?

UPDATE: I switched to Claude Code CLI and the token consumption is now way more reasonable.

After hitting the same frustrating wall with Claude Desktop + MCP filesystem, someone recommended trying Claude Code instead.

What changed:

• No need to the filesystem MCP, claude code read/write directly from your computer

• Same tasks

• 3–5x less token consumption on average

• No more random "max length" errors on brand new chats

The paradox: MCP is the reason I chose Claude in the first place. The ability to connect to filesystems, databases, Notion, etc. is too powerful to ignore but the token management makes it almost unusable for real work.

If Anthropic fixes MCP integration and token optimization , they’ll easily dominate the market.

MCP is revolutionary, the model is brilliant, but the UX is holding it back.

Anthropic is sitting on a goldmine !! Fix the token management and Claude becomes the undisputed #1.

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I’m on Claude Pro, and honestly, in 20 years of using paid software, I’ve never been this frustrated.
The model itself is absolutely brilliant but using Claude is just a p*** in the a**.

Here’s what happened:

• I opened a brand-new chat inside a folder (the folder has a short instruction and 3 small chats).

• Sent one single request asking Claude to analyze a README through the MCP filesystem.

• Claude reads the environment variables, then instantly throws:“Claude hits the maximum length for this conversation.”

Like… what?!

• Brand new chat

• Claude Sonnet

• 30% session usage

• 20% of my weekly limit And it just dies.

Is the folder context included in the token count?
Or are the MCP env vars blowing the context window? Because this behavior makes absolutely no sense.

The model is extraordinary, but the user experience is pure madness.
How can a Pro user hit a max length after one request? This shouldn’t even be possible.

Anyone else seeing this nonsense?

I have been using Claude code for a long time, practically from the beginning when it was created, and it has completely changed the way I use AI. I don't know so much about code, but since AI is doing well with programming I started creating a couple of applications at the beginning to automate for myself and then streamline things at home. Claude Code, Sonnet 4 and Opus helped me a lot to develop technical skills and thanks to it I have things like automatic opening and closing of blinds or sending alarms when smoke detectors detect something, home lab and smart home is a big area of activities and possibilities.

Although there were sometimes limits I used Opus and Sonnet intensively. I didn't complain too much because the limits were sometimes reached at most an hour before the next 5-hour session. Things started to break down when weekly limits were introduced. Limits fluctuated terribly, sometimes it was better (but not like before the introduction of weekly limits), sometimes it was so bad that the limits in a 5 hour session ended after 1 hour.... My plan didn't change, the way I use it did too. The last 2 weeks have been tragic, because after about 3 days I used up the entire weekend limit. If the Anthropic team says that it does not change the limits then for me it is a simple lie, it is impossible to attract similar habits and use in a similar way so drastically change the limits.

I'll get to the main point, so as not to write too much. I've been testing Codex for a week having the usual $20 plan.

For 4 days I used similarly to Claude codex.... And only at the 4th day I had a limit. And not the cheapest model available just usually used the better ones. Codex has its downsides, but it can all be worked out and set up to achieve better accuracy similar to Claude, although in some cases Codex does better.

I know that OpenAI is probably losing a lot of money on this, and I know that it probably won't last very long, but even if they make it 2 or 3 times worse it will still be better than with Claude, who can with a $200 plan limit access after 1 day. Chatgpt's $20 plan and even more so the $200 plan is worth the money unlike Claude, which was great in the beginning and has now deteriorated.

Anthropic is going the way of Cursor, and it's not a good way because Cursor blatantly scams people, changes limits every different day and purposely worsens the performance of models through its layer just to make it cheaper.

At this point I am switching from claude to Codex and will gladly pay them $200 if necessary than $200 claude, which does not want to see its users.

And all because of the stupid decision of weekend capping. It was enough to ban forever those who used the limits 24 hours a day all week and overtaxed the resources, and give honest users full freedom, then of course because of some idiots who bragged here and created videos how claude works alone 24 hours a day Anthropic had to give a weekend limit. As far as I'm concerned they seized the moment to limit access to everyone because maintenance was too expensive, and that was just an excuse to implement limits.

Sonnet 4.5 will not save the situation, and if it goes on like this, OpenAI will garner more users than Anthropic. Personally, I feel cheated because I pay so much for only 1 day limit without giving any information that the limits are changing.

And if not OpenAI, Chinese models are available to choose from at a good price, or even for free

Time to wake up and be competitive.

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.

What are the exact weekly and 5-hour usage limits (in coding hours and request counts) for Claude Code when comparing the Anthropic Max 20× plan vs. a Team Premium seat? I know both have the same 200k token context per request, but I’m looking for concrete numbers on how many coding hours and prompts per window/ per week are actually allowed.

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!

I'm thinking of upgrading to the $20/month plan specifically to use Claude Code. Are you guys hitting the limit constantly? Just trying to figure out if it's usable for a full workday or if I'll get capped immediately.

I'm back from month hiatus of Claude Max5 Subscription and just recently re-subscribed to Pro plan to test Opus 4.5.

At first, I was laughing on how people comments and said in here that you can only prompt one Opus 4.5 and your 5-hour limit is gone until I literally experienced it. Now, I upgrade my Plan to Max5 and the usage limit difference is HUUUUUUUUUUUUGE compared to Pro Plan. It is not just 5x. So I feel like the Pro plan (This should be renamed to just "Plus" because there's no pro in this plan) is really just to test the model and Anthropic will force you to upgrade to Max.

Right now, been coding on 2 sessions simultaneously continuously using opusplan model and I'm only 57% of the 5-hour limit, reset in 1 hour.

Anyhow,

Opus 4.5 is great, the limit is higher. I'm happy but my wallet hurts. Lol

In late August, we're introducing weekly rate limits for Claude subscribers, affecting less than 5% of users based on current usage patterns.

While Pro and Max plans offer generous Claude access, some advanced users have been running Claude continuously 24/7—consuming resources far beyond typical usage. One user consumed tens of thousands in model usage on a $200 plan. Though we're developing solutions for these advanced use cases, our new rate limits will ensure a more equitable experience for all users while also preventing policy violations like account sharing and reselling access.

We take these decisions seriously. We're committed to supporting long-running use cases through other options in the future, but until then, weekly limits will help us maintain reliable service for everyone. Max 20x subscribers can purchase additional usage at standard API rates if needed.

We also recognize that during this same period, users have encountered several reliability and performance issues. We've been working to fix these as quickly as possible and will continue addressing any remaining issues over the coming days and weeks.