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.

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!

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Why a Performance, Usage Limits and Bugs 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 and bug issues and experiences, maximally informative to everybody. See the previous period's performance and workarounds report here https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/wiki/latestworkaroundreport

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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.

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.

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/

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

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TL;DR: git init in ~/.claude/, delete old log lines (skip line 1), restart Claude Code = infinite conversation

⚠️ Use at your own risk - always backup with git first

Found an interesting workaround when hitting Claude Code conversation limits. The session logs can be edited to continue conversations indefinitely.

The Discovery: Claude Code stores conversation history in log files. When you hit the conversation limit, you can actually delete the beginning of the log file and continue the conversation.

Steps:

1. Setup git backup (CRITICAL)

   cd ~/.claude/
   git init
   git add .
   git commit -m "backup before log manipulation"

2. Find your session ID

   • In Claude Code, type /session

   • Copy the session ID

3. Locate the session log

   cd ~/.claude/
   # Find your session file using the ID

4. Edit the session file

   • Open in VSCode (Cmd+P to quick open if on Mac)

   • IMPORTANT: Disable word wrap (Opt+Z for Mac) for clarity

   • DO NOT touch the first line

   • Delete lines from the beginning (after line 1) to free up space

5. Restart the conversation

   • Close Claude Code

   • Reopen Claude Code

   • Continue sending messages - the conversation continues!

Why this works: The conversation limit is based on the total size of the session log. By removing old messages from the beginning (keeping the header intact), you free up space for new messages.

Risks:

• Loss of context from deleted messages

• Potential data corruption if done incorrectly

• That's why git backup is ESSENTIAL

Pro tip: When context changes significantly, it's better to just start a new conversation. But if you're stuck and need to continue, this is your escape hatch.

Found this while debugging session issues. Use responsibly!

And also i tried different solution for it, but not good as expected for now @yemreak/claude-compact

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?

I have Claude Pro ($20/month) and consistently run into the per-session usage limits when using Claude Code (CLI tool). I'll max out my current session and have to wait for the window to reset, even though I often end up using only 20-40% of my overall weekly allowance.

My budget is around $30/month total. Is there a better solution than Pro + occasional overage purchases?

Options I'm considering:

Paying for extra usage when I hit limits (but feels inefficient)

Switching to API pay-as-you-go for Claude Code specifically

Upgrading to a higher tier (but $100/month seems excessive for my usage)

For those who use Claude Code heavily in bursts but inconsistently week-to-week - what's your setup?

As we know, each time we start a chat or claude code, we open a session for 5 hours. As I understand, even if I wrote hi and left the code, came back in 5 hours - write Hi again - its counted 2 session, regardless of the tokens passed\recieved, so hitting 50 sessions a month is pretty easy. How this works realy, and if some one got session limit warning ever?

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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ORIGINAL POST

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?

Is the sum of all per-session limits over a week greater than the weekly limit? No
Can you use the entire weekly limit in a single session? No

Right now you have to ration the weekly limit within each session’s limit.

Either the session limit or the weekly limit needs to go, or the price needs to come down.

Does ChatGPT also have session and weekly limits?

I use ChatGPT more than Claude, but I’ve never hit a limit.

Latest Performance, Usage Limits and Bugs with Workarounds Report: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/wiki/latestworkaroundreport

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

Why a Performance, Usage Limits and Bugs 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 and bug issues and experiences, maximally informative to everybody. See the previous period's performance and workarounds report here https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/wiki/latestworkaroundreport

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.

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’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!

Claude code used to show the time that it'd reset. It was quite helpful to be able to plan for getting lunch, coffee, workout, etc.

I assume they're prepping for the Aug 28 hammer.. but removing transparency is a bit frustrating.

Note before your pants-ants go nuts, settle down I'm using roughly 70% sonnet.