Hi! I’m sorry if this has been asked already but I’m having trouble wrapping my head around how the pro plan works compared to free.

I’m currently using the free plan mainly for collaborative storytelling, conversation, and help organizing adulting tasks. I notice that compared to ChatGPT’s free plan, each chat thread gets filled up very quickly. (I get the “Your prompt is too long” error, even if I just send a single word, which makes me feel like I’ve hit the end of the context window and the chat has gotten too large for Claude to handle, or something like that.) So I’ll have to consistently ask for summaries of what’s happened in the story or what we’ve talked about to feed to the next chat instance for some sense of continuity.

I was contemplating switching to the pro plan, just to give myself more space in each continuous chat window before needing to summarize and move to another thread. But I’m confused at how everything I read about pro speaks of an amount of messages that resets 5 hours. Is that amount per chat window? Or all together? I have yet to hit anything like a “you’ve sent too many messages, please use Claude again after midnight” error while using free. So the idea of limits that reset more frequently confuses me a bit.

TL;DR: If I get Claude Pro, will the available space in each chat thread increase, or will I just get hit with more time-induced limits that will be more trouble than they’re worth?

Just tested Claudes free version and I liked the output for my needs.

Am considering upgrading.

Is there a significant difference in the quality of output for content? Is the quality of content much better in the paid version?

I am not using it for coding, images, or anything crazy. Am just a blogger.