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reddit.com › r/claude › session limit reached - is this a joke?
r/claude on Reddit: Session limit reached - Is this a joke?
October 10, 2025 -

I subscribed to test out this 'AI' and the free answers were quite impressive. I subscribed to the Pro plan and started chatting with the chatbot. I sent EIGHT messages and now I am at the "Session Limit" until several hours later at 3 in the morning.

EDIT: I've checked and those EIGHT messages have cost me 12% of my weekly limit.

Is this a joke? I'm not the biggest supporter of AI but I do try them out every once a while to see what's happening. Both ChatGPT and Gemini give me dozens of messages before I would reach any limit. DeepSeek is completely free and I haven't run into a block yet.

I haven't even reached any sort of 'resolution' with the chatbot. We barely got through a few problems and then all of a sudden I am at a limit. ChatGPT at least had the courtesy to tell you that you're getting close and to plan accordingly but Claude just stops out of nowhere.

From "About Claude's Pro Plan Usage":

"you can expect to send around 45 messages every five hours, often more depending on Claude’s current capacity"

Honestly, even with the 'Max' plan this is absurdly low. I'd get 45 messages with a $100 plan and 180 for $200/month? That's insane.

I hope my refund request is honored otherwise I'm issuing a chargeback. This is unacceptable.

UPDATE: Of course it wasn't. Anthropic actively lies and misleads and then refuses to refund me after EIGHT MESSAGES. Issuing a chargeback immediately. Holy shit this is so much worse than any other AI company out there.

I did some math and if 8 messages took 12% of my weekly limit then that means I have a limit of 72 messages... per week. If I were to have 45 per 5 hours, I 'd have 1,512 message limit. So they have lied by 1,440 messages.

Dispute and report to my bank has been sent.

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github.com › anthropics › claude-code › issues › 9415
[BUG] Claude Code (Pro) session limit reached after 20 minutes · Issue #9415 · anthropics/claude-code
October 12, 2025 - [BUG] Claude Code (Pro) session limit reached after 20 minutes#9415 · Copy link · Labels ·
Published   Oct 12, 2025
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[BUG] Session limit reached - reset time inconsistent with that shown on claude.ai · Issue #8926 · anthropics/claude-code
October 4, 2025 - Claude code: Session limit reached ∙ resets 6pm https://claude.ai/: Session limit reached ∙ resets 2:00 PM
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Session limit reached ∙ resets 6pm · Issue #9151 · anthropics/claude-code
October 8, 2025 - Bug Description Since 2.x release I am getting session limit reached too often. I have been using sporadically today. As a paying customer it's very frustrating. There are 8 hours of usage in a day and 16 hours of downtime. This needs to be improve as it's a terrible CX ... [{"error":"Error\n at CA (/$bunfs/root/claude...
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[BUG] 5 hour limit reached after only 3 hours · Issue #6392 · anthropics/claude-code
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r/ClaudeAI on Reddit: Introducing Claude Usage Limit Meter
September 29, 2025 -

You can now track your usage in real time across Claude Code and the Claude apps.

  • Claude Code: /usage slash command

  • Claude apps: Settings -> Usage

The weekly rate limits we announced in July are rolling out now. With Claude Sonnet 4.5, we expect fewer than 2% of users to reach them.

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Claude AI usage limit prematurely reached · Issue #6146 · anthropics/claude-code
August 20, 2025 - • Session start: 8:00 AM • Elapsed: ~1 hour • Tokens used: ~8.7M (about 31% of the stated 28M session limit) • Burn rate: ~155k tokens/min (flagged as “normal”) • Reset time: 1:00 PM · Despite being far below the stated token allocation (only ~31%), Claude Code blocked further usage with the message: USAGE LIMIT.
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June 13, 2025 - Anthropic will be running a report of users who are using more than 50 5-hour sessions a month and checking for abuse. I don't think normal users have anything to worry about Continue this thread ... afaik you get reset every 5h or so. so, its not that you are running out of tokens mid month. ...