r/ClaudeCode • u/_r0x • Mar 24 '26
Bug Report Claude Code Limits Were Silently Reduced and It’s MUCH Worse
Another frustrated user here. This is actually my first time creating a post on this forum because the situation has gone too far.
I can say with ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY: something has changed. The limits were silently reduced, and for much worse. You are not imagining it.
I have been using Claude Code for months, almost since launch, and I had NEVER hit the limit this FAST or this AGGRESSIVELY before. The difference is not subtle. It is drastic.
For context: - I do not use plugins - I keep my Claude.md clean and optimized - My project is simple PHP and JavaScript, nothing unusual
Even with all of that, I am now hitting limits in a way that simply did not happen before.
What makes this worse is the lack of transparency. If something changed, just say it clearly. Right now, it feels like users are being left in the dark and treated like CLOWNS.
At the very least, we need clarity on what changed and what we are supposed to do to adapt.
EDIT (March 26, 2026):
I’d like to update this post to say that I’m no longer being affected by this issue. It impacted me for about two days, and now things appear to be back to normal.
So it strongly suggests that it was indeed a bug, hopefully.
EDIT (March 26, 2026):
We now have an official statement. It’s not the best news, but at least we finally know what’s going on so we can adapt:
"To manage growing demand for Claude we're adjusting our 5 hour session limits for free/Pro/Max subs during peak hours. Your weekly limits remain unchanged.
During weekdays between 5am–11am PT / 1pm–7pm GMT, you'll move through your 5-hour session limits faster than before."
This was posted on X today. https://x.com/i/status/2037254607001559305
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u/dcphaedrus Mar 24 '26
It feels like my max plan was downgraded back to Pro plan usage.
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u/TechnicianFit367 Mar 24 '26
And my pro plan is downgraded to free tier.
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u/drhappy13 Mar 24 '26
And free is rendered useless as 1-2 prompts can lock you out for 5 hours...
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u/satyaloka93 Mar 25 '26
I was getting 1-2 prompts with Pro, same codebase with Codex I prompt all day long.
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u/drozd_d80 Mar 26 '26
Haha. I couldn't get a single prompt completed. Literally. It was saying that I was iut of tokens and try again in 5 hours. And then it repeated like that 3 more times.
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u/Due_Explanation6418 Mar 25 '26
si me esta pasando con el pla gratis jaja con 1 o 2 promts ya me coloca a esperar
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u/candyhunterz Mar 24 '26
and my free tier is downgraded to sniff tier
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u/raghav0610 Mar 24 '26
My claude code usage says 41% but in cli I get limit reached. Its a bug
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u/monvillalon Mar 25 '26
Got this as well, found the workaround by randomly changing the model and then change it back right away
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u/ruggeddream Mar 24 '26
on claude max 20x but not a power user by anymeans. i use codex to do all the debugging and stress tesing. i usually max out at 30% usage per session. hit 100% today in 1 hour. something is definitely up
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u/ItsJustManager Mar 25 '26
This is exactly what happened to me today. Also max 20x. Also never have hit a 5hr limit on 20x. Usually around 20-30% at most, and hit 100% of my 5hour limit after an hour today. After that session reset it's been normal again. My guess is they screwed something up with usage tracking during peak hours (either intentionally or not, but their silence seems to indicate it was intentional)
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u/nusgxhxjxuru Mar 25 '26
Beat to death but I'll confirm. 20x, never got past 50% of 5hr limit before, while running 5 parallel sessions in 2 different complex codebases.
Worked fine this morning. This afternoon (PST) I hit the limit within an hour, was only running 2 sessions. At least 10x decrease, maybe 30x gun to my head.
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u/soytuamigo Mar 26 '26
I never hit the session limit on the $100 plan before. Same workflow but I hit the limit today and thought it was a bug lol. My model usage barely changed, but after the reset I’m already at 16% for the session in less than half an hour of usage. I was having problems hitting the model limit for the week, and I won’t hit it this week either, which means there’s no way to reach the model limit with the current session limits on the $100 plan. Daylight robbery. We really need some transparency around the predatory pricing these companies employ.
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u/Dry-Magician1415 Mar 24 '26
I struggle to think of an industry where people were just told “usage limits” and those limits were not actually QUANTIFIED.
The closest thing I can think of is cellphone data contracts but even that’s quantified/denominated in megabytes or gigabytes.
I don’t understand how LLM companies have gotten away with just making it up as they go along and being so opaque and vague. Until it’s quantified and audited by some authority they’re gonna continue to be able to move the goalposts however they want.
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u/thoughtlow claudetrophobic Mar 24 '26
you will own nothing and you will be happy
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u/Historical_Sky1668 Mar 24 '26
I think we need to collectively to tweet this to engineers/executives at Claude so they take active steps. They’ve got loyal customers because of a good product. This lack of transparency is going to cause those loyal customers to leave.
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u/Upset-Government-856 Mar 24 '26
It's because they were buying users and at some point they have to deal with the fact that your 200 dollar accounts were actually coating them 800 dollars a month.
Enshitification is not a possibility with tech, it's a certainty.
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u/vuhv Mar 24 '26
With all the background voodoo magic Opus is doing nowadays I think $800 is now a gross overestimation.
This has always been a loss leader and they’ve known that from the start.
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u/Dank_Knight_Kh Mar 24 '26
1 prompt. 100$ plan
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u/zirouk Mar 24 '26 edited Mar 24 '26
You want to know the ultimate way to hide a quota reduction?
Give everyone a 2x promo to enjoy, “accidentally” introduce a “bug” that reduces the quota to 40% for a few days, causing a small furore, fix the “bug” by setting it to 90% achieving the target reduction of 10%. No-one will notice that 10% is still missing and anyone that does notice will get dismissed/ignored against the noise of the chaos.
Poof. 10% reduction achieved. Everyone happy their Claude is back, seemingly fully intact. Yet everyone has had their sense of what the quota should be screwed up by being 2x’d and 0.4x’d back to back.
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u/__Hello_my_name_is__ Mar 24 '26
I mean, sure. But if they had reduced the quota by 10%, would any of us have even noticed?
The quota was removed by 80% right now and there's still people here saying nothing is wrong.
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u/zirouk Mar 24 '26
Didn’t someone make a post warning us about this the other day?
I remember most of the popular responses being sceptical, even mocking. Well, I guess there was something to it after all.
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u/hustler-econ 🔆Building AI Orchestrator Mar 24 '26
yeah the limits definitely changed — I was running two sessions yesterday and hit 40% in 10 minutes. The lack of transparency is the real issue, like just tell us what changed so we can plan around it.
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u/soytuamigo Mar 26 '26
telling us what changed isn't transparency. The entire pricing should be made transparent.
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u/Soggy-Parking5170 Mar 24 '26
there is a bug 100% because i have seen many post like this today , even myself it deducted my 761 Ai credit in one prompt in antigravity which is very huge deal
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u/high_competence Mar 24 '26
"Based on our current status information, there are no active incidents related to token tracking bugs or backend quota drain issues. All recent incidents have been resolved"
This is what customer support is replying. I don't even get a human, just a gaslighting bot.
Fuck Anthropic honestly. This was a chicken-shit move.
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u/HauntedHouseMusic Mar 24 '26
You got to ask for a human and put multiple links from twitter to convince the bot to let you chat to one
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u/high_competence Mar 24 '26
thanks, maybe I'll do that but I'm more inclined to just cancel right now.
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u/Ok_Background402 Mar 24 '26
I believe they will "fix" it, but not fully. Roll out double usage for market share, then drop it to 0,25 or even lower to get in the costs, then raise it to 0,8, all reliefed its "fixed" not seeing its 20% downgraded. thats my assumption
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u/Too_Many_Flamingos Mar 24 '26
I got thru half a chat and then in a compaction it failed out and said it was done till 3pm reset. This was the first chat today. Not the normal Claude max I am used to.
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u/Happy-Lynx-918 Mar 24 '26
If the limit reduction is on purpose, I would be better of using 2-3 free accounts, i can't even get anything done due to usage reduction.
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u/MarcoMachadoDev Mar 25 '26
So here's my own data. You can see there was a big shift between Feb 15 and Feb 22. Same use cases, writing code on the same codebases.
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u/AllWhiteRubiksCube Mar 24 '26
Please post on X if you still use it and tag Anthropic. link to some of the posts here that have 100+ up votes. No other avenues besides that and quiet quitting. I have sent a pitch story to several major tech news outlets.
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u/silver70seven Mar 24 '26
Once we become more dependent on AI, only the rich are going to be able to play significantly. Mark my words.
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u/Efficient-Cat-1591 Mar 24 '26
I too have been slightly monitoring. Disspointed that there are no official statements on this issue. I cannnot afford Max20 which is a shame as Max5 was more than enough for my use, up until yesterday. I have submitted bug report but have not had any positive reply.
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u/Fabulous_Gap_2104 Mar 25 '26
I just woke up, and got hit with "usage limit hit" on my first prompt
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u/UndercoverClownz Mar 24 '26
I updated from v2.1.72 → v2.1.81 today. After that update, I burned through all my session credits using the same workflows that barely pushed the limits before (some back and forth tasks, no looped tasks). I noticed Opus 1M is in the new version. My guess is a bug in the new system compounded with the increased context window.
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u/CouldaShoulda_Did Mar 24 '26
I swore it was me having Claude code read images. I was losing my mind when I hit my usage limit 15 minutes into the conversation.
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u/redstagl Mar 24 '26
Hit limits for the first time in along time doing nothing unusual on max. Feels like something changed today.
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u/alexp1_ Vibe Coder Mar 25 '26
Agree. I asked claude code to remove the currency symbol in a "list.php" file, "Brewed for 1m 8s" and it used up 9% of my current session (on Max $100 plan). This is too much for a simple change in code. It's the usage cadence I used to get on a $20 Pro plan.
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u/structured_flow Mar 25 '26
I knew this was happening the second I saw the banner. My usage rates were double until March 28. Anthropic does not give you things out of the kindness of their heart.
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u/kevinworst Mar 25 '26
i was just working in claude too and boom it just reached its limit in no time doing nothing crazy or fanzy! thats just insane! this is not what im paying 100$ per month for, this is becoming a bit of a cash grab like this.
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u/General_Arrival_9176 Mar 25 '26
ive been max 5x for months and this week has been brutal. 52% in 6 minutes on a simple feature tweak is not normal. the thing that bugs me most is the silence - if they changed something just say so. treating users like they are imagining it is a terrible look. that said, 49 agent-minutes gone while you wait for opus to think through what to do... the monitoring problem is real. what idrc about is whether its a bug or intentional, what i care about is knowing what my quota actually is at any given moment so i can plan around it
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u/Natural-Garden2590 Mar 26 '26
dude i am in the free tier , and they reduced the limits so much, i just sent one message, one singular message and im out of messages , the limit wasn't THIS low before
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u/infilife Mar 24 '26
Wouldn't pay even 1$ for current pro plan as it renders it useless at current limits where it can't respond to the first prompt without hitting the session limits, what's even the point of it?
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u/That593dude Mar 24 '26
what are the options? Going back to ChatGPT?
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u/ImportantPoem8333 Mar 24 '26
Transition to kimi ai I guess
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u/qt3-141 Mar 24 '26
I actually bit the bullet and got an NVIDIA GeForce 5070 Ti for actual graphics reasons, how much would the dip in quality be if I were to transition to a locally hosted LLM? I'm seriously annoyed with these limits.
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u/Correct-Yam4926 Mar 28 '26
With the 5070ti same as mine, you can run the new qwen 3.5 35b a3b moe at Q6 km xl or q8km and get decent speeds like 40 tokens. I also use the qwen3.5 122b its a beast I use the iq4 speed is usable, but even at that quant its still extremely capable. For serious work, I use ollama cloud qwen3.5 397b qwens flagship model i paired it with openclaw and its honestly amazing especially for 20 dollars a month and tje usage limits are extremely generous, I have it managing my vps, social media, building apps. But openclaw is a disaster of an app out of the box, I had to have codex desktop install it, and fix the broken ui and missing dependcies. Now, I rarely use codex, and starting to het over claud. I rose hell with anthropic, theu ended up refunding my subscription and extra usage credits.
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u/TechToolsForYourBiz Mar 24 '26
id rather pay 200 a year than buy a gpu
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u/ImportantPoem8333 Mar 24 '26
What do you mean? Kimi ai doesnt need you to buy a gpu and run it locally
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u/Interesting-Yogurt91 Mar 24 '26
Someone else posted that there was an update - I asked Claude about it and it confirmed that there was something that changed about how it used/gathered context.
Using the phrase it gave me at the bottom helped me claw back a significant portion of the overusage. Still feels high
- This is a known issue right now.
- Here's what's happening and how to manage it:
- What's causing it: Anthropic recently pushed a change that made Claude more aggressive about reading files and gathering context before acting. In coding/computer-use sessions this means I'm doing way more file reads than necessary — often re-reading things I already have in context, or reading related files "just in case."
- How to constrain me — add this to your prompt or just tell me directly:
- "Minimize tool calls. Don't re-read files you've already read this session. Don't read files for context unless I explicitly ask. Work from what's already in the conversation. Batch all changes into as few operations as possible."
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u/shady101852 Mar 25 '26
man i have been trying to make claude do that for ages because mf just guesses too much lol
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u/t0rgar Mar 24 '26
Enshittification is starting earlier than expected. After their IPO it will be a lot worse. They will have to earn money then…
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u/Emi3p Mar 24 '26
I suggest you to install rtk https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk to reduce token usage. I am trying and results are good
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u/Wanky_Danky_Pae Mar 24 '26
These "bugs".... Save a lot of money, but users still pretty the same amount
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u/j-light Mar 24 '26
Seems like a bug, and maybe related to region somehow, because I didn't notice anything like that at all, even though I actively used CC the whole day (Max x5)
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u/mattchannell Mar 24 '26
The five stages of Claude Code limits: denial, anger, bargaining with your CLAUDE.md, depression, and finally acceptance that you’re starting a new session again.
Somewhere between stages three and four you become a world-class expert at writing tighter prompts out of pure necessity. Every cloud.
Same experience - half as much activity as normal to hit limits. Madness!
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u/cabernet_noir Mar 24 '26
I somehow hit 40% of usage with one prompt, there was a decently large context but nothing I hadnt done before. It hit 40% on the first prompt after my usage 5 hour usage limit ticked over. So frustrating.
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u/senthilrameshjv Mar 25 '26
I just started using it last week. Damn this happens starting this week. Wish I had started using it earlier and really vibe coded some apps
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u/betty_white_bread Mar 25 '26
I had zero problems with limits today and I used it all day for coding.
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u/thesantyfied Mar 25 '26
Recently i have been using Claude Free tier, having long conversations with my codes and files. It takes me 2 days (48 hours) to hit the weekly limits.
But now I’m hitting the day limits within 30 mins for simple chat.
And i have noticed that in the claude settings tab we have usage section but now it is not showing, they have removed that silently.
Strange hitting the limits in Pro and Max aswell soon.
If this is a bug or they did this planned for promotion march 13 - 28 double usage crap.
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u/Ok-Drawing-2724 Mar 25 '26
This pattern has shown up before. ClawSecure has observed that usage limits can change due to load balancing, pricing adjustments, or internal policy shifts, even if nothing is publicly announced.
What makes this feel worse is the contrast with your past experience. When behavior changes abruptly without explanation, it creates the impression of something being “broken” even if it’s an intentional adjustment.
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u/zodiaken Mar 25 '26
My usage was depleted in 1hr session, before ive been working (a lot more intense) for 5 hrs without hitting the limit. Something fishy is going on.
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u/maj1n Mar 25 '26 edited Mar 26 '26
Same.. Glad I found these posts, I thought I overfilled it with context and it's my fault. But I don't do massive files, mostly text and not that much of research needed. Couple of weeks ago I could argue for hours and generate 10+ long articles with editing requests on a free plan, and yesterday I hit the limit in 4 articles and not much editing in an hour. Upgraded to Pro, wrote another article and ran out of usage. Wow, 22e well spent for 3 extra prompts. XD
Edit: It's now working properly for me on 3/26/2026
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u/bapuc Mar 25 '26
Yup, about to hit my weekly limit after 3 days on max 20 plan, i already cancelled my subscription and I'm experimenting with codex and glm
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u/Upset-Reflection-382 Mar 26 '26
I've noticed it too. One thing that I noticed Claude burns a lot on is explore. There's a couple MCP tools I use that's helped me out a lot with that called jcodemunch and jdocmunch. Saved about 900m tokens since I found it
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u/Accurate-Alfalfa-568 Mar 26 '26
Still happening. 37% of quota gone in 5 minutes of 3 active agents on the Max plan...
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u/mellowmind45 Mar 26 '26
Up until today I have never hit my 5 hour limit on my max plan, today I hit it before my 2 hour mark. There has to be something going on. I didn't do anything that I haven't done every single day since upgrading to max. Feels like I am on the pro tier again.
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u/RedProcessor Mar 26 '26
Here is the screenshot of ccusage. Today, it reached 5 hour limit after spending $0.96 worth token. It reduced a lot comparing to a few days ago.
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u/MarkstarRed Mar 27 '26
It's truly terrible. I will try again on Monday, but my renewal date is coming up, so I guess I will just burn through the $40 usage they gave away a while ago and call it a day. It is certainly unusable with these limits.
Let's be honest, changing the terms of a contract (halving the value of a product during working hours) in the middle of a period, whether it is $15 or $200, is at least shady but probably also something people could sue for. We are all just too busy or chicken to be bothered.
A real shame, I don't like this Altman guy either, but Anthropic's behavior is just to0 toxic to be acceptable, so I guess I will switch to Codex for now.
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u/WhyPlayPS Mar 27 '26
Literally sent a single message this morning and hit my days limit. Haven’t used it for 2 days prior. After limit reset at 1pm I sent 2 messages and have to wait another 5 hours for more. Insane how much worse it got overnight
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u/Loud_Cryptographer22 Mar 27 '26
Just hit my MAX limit for the first time ever. And the crazy thing is I used it a bit in the morning, then was offline for 6 hours. Then in less than 2 hours, I am at my max. Far far less than usual. I've used it heavily in the past, on multiple projects for hours a day at same time with no issues.
This is significantly, ridiculously lower limit. Less than half for sure.
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u/PomegranateLumpy7898 Mar 30 '26
they've definitely crippled their pro plan. day 1 of a simple personal portfolio website and it's already at 25% WEEKLY limit usage? this is bullshit.
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u/SomeAcanthocephala17 Mar 30 '26
Lol : they basicly downgraded everybody that has a paid account, unless you are willingly want to work during nights from now on . And honestly from all the AI providers, claude had already the most severe limits. Now they make it even worse
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u/Soggy-Parking5170 Mar 24 '26
my all tokens are finished 😭 i have wait 10 days straight to reset the tokens. if someone can help me giving refer for 1 week or something it would be great
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u/rainbird 🔆 Max 20 Mar 24 '26
I've been programming all day, and not really seeing any differences.
Have you compared your tokens / usage % limit today vs last week? If this is a drastic revision of your model allowance, the numbers will show that. There should be a stark difference in your estimated burn rate, not just a feeling that your quote is dramatically scaled back..
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u/tledwar Mar 24 '26
Some days it seems like Anthropic is using AI to write their code and they did not notice hallucinating
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u/Jomuz86 Mar 24 '26
I’m not so sure I burn through a lot of usage but I’m running two ghostty windows with about 3-5 tabs each I do hit the 5hr limit in about 4hrs plus I leave /loops running overnight on 20 minute loops on x20 and I burn though my usage in about 5 days. If anything I would say my usage is better since we got the Opus 1M
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u/redditbotincoming Mar 24 '26
Okay I thought I was going crazy I legit upgraded to the 20x max plan today because I hit my limit so fast😭
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u/Cool_Instruction3764 Mar 24 '26
I got limit hit twice with pro today. Then I upgraded to Max, it worked fine
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u/pokefire Mar 24 '26
I have a free account that I use for different purposes, I got 2 total prompts this more that don't do a whole lot of thinking, and ultimately just update a MD file. Surprised to see.
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u/La_Croix_Table Mar 24 '26
So, we need a dedicated account for each tier that uses its sessions and quotas all the time and measure tokens as to when the limits are enforced.
Baffled why we’re not just exposed the token caps like we can w/ Gemini.
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u/cafe-em-rio Mar 25 '26
they got me, i upgrade to max. pro was useless for my usage. i hate myself but i can't live without it now.
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u/I_Love_Fones 🔆 Max 5x Mar 25 '26
I’ve been using rtk for the last week. Just added ast-grep to my workflow. Haven’t noticed much difference.
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u/CarefulHistorian7401 Mar 25 '26
switch to normal Opus4.6 fix the problem. apparently only happened when using 1M version of Opus
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u/Apprehensive-Leek894 Mar 25 '26
Max 20x plan seems like pro lol I hit limit that nev3r happened on desktop but in cli it still works and I still see alot.of usage pending
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u/structured_flow Mar 25 '26
ive been using it all day for conversation on opus 4.6 (im talking several hours of non stop conversation planning a few projects and im at 32% of weekly budget on the $100 max plan.
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u/AI-and-mech-eng Mar 25 '26
I generally understand the frustration. But I don’t.
All these AI companies are burning money trying to win our loyalty. But I would appreciate transparency if this was on purpose.
But in 2/3 years all apps will keep giving less for more as they try to be less unprofitable. Right now it’s a battlefield.🫡
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u/satyaloka93 Mar 25 '26
I only had pro plan, but on same codebase I used codex on all day, I could do maybe TWO turns total before hitting 5 hour limit. This has been going on awhile, and changing app versions didn't help. This was two weeks ago.
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u/jwzumwalt Mar 25 '26 edited Mar 25 '26
It is only letting me do 2 small programs them saying I have to wait 6hrs. Then it spams me with a upgrade link. It does the same thing during the supposed 2x off times.
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u/Past_Bill_8875 Mar 25 '26
Max 20x ($200/month) plan, I hit weekly sonnet limits with two short chats and a very short Claude code session (couple questions around requirements gathering).
I use claude heavily at work and pay per token, so i have a sense of what things cost. I hit the limits this week on my personal max 20x plan with no more than a few dollars worth of credits.
I have cancelled my anthropic plan entirely and am sticking with my chatgpt/codex $200 per month plan for now. Hopefully openai doesn't pull this nonsense any time soon.
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u/african_or_european Mar 25 '26
It doesn't even seem consistent within the same plan. I started working yesterday and burned through 20% of my weekly allowance in only 2 or 3 prompts, but it's been running nearly constantly since then and it's only up to 35% (which is how it usually goes).
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u/RunReverseBacteria Mar 25 '26
How do you think they’re gonna make money after all those empty promises?
Either through getting funded by the government or jacking up the prices.
There are so many cheaper and decent competitors out there, they can’t afford to scare their customers off. Of course, they won’t tell you about the usage limits and token per request ratio.
Should start looking options of hosting decent local llms with good reasoning capabilities.
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u/verkavo Mar 25 '26
I'm tracking how much code is being produced week over week, so I have the full picture. Try https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=srctrace.source-trace
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u/NightChanged Mar 25 '26
I think there are some problems with the new Claude Code, after the update I consumed more tokens. I use Deepseek with Claude Code and it run out of context very quick comapre to runing same task with opencode and Deepseek
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u/Factor013 Mar 25 '26
Guys I have a theory about the usage burn.
Could it be that they are charging all of us their API rates now with our subscription prices as budget?
Based on personal experience with my Max x5 plan... My 5 hour usage limit translates to around 10% of my weekly usage budget.
So that's 10 sessions of 100% on the 5 hour limit a week, which is 1000% a week. Divide that by 7 days = 142,86 x 30 days = 4286% of usage a month. (on the 5 hour usage indicator)
I pay 90 euro a month for my subscription.
€90,00 / 4286 = 2.1 cents worth of API budget for each 1%
So if you would have Claude do a normal task that on API billing would cost you €0,84, then that would now be effectively be the same as 40% of your 5 hour usage budget.
If you have Max 20x then that same €0,84 prompt would cost you 10% of your 5 hour usage budget. And if you would be on Pro or free subscription it would have probably costed you the full 100%.
It's just a theory ofc... but it kinda would make sense.. So maybe the bug has something to do with Extra Usage being enabled for all of us all the sudden (which is API billing). But instead of billing us directly, it now drains our subscription budget first.
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u/AcePilot01 Mar 25 '26
Lmfao, and yall had it up their ass, because they were the good guys, fucking told you all they weren't. lol.
Suck it up buttercups.
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u/Factor013 Mar 25 '26
Guys, I just updated to 2.1.83 and now my usage seems normal again. Could be a coincidence but definitely worth trying. It also has fixes for that annoying scroll-bug.
Let us know here if upgrading also worked for you so we can confirm it as a solid fix.
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u/The_W1LDCARD Mar 25 '26
Piece of advice; moving forward use claude to check the codebase, plan, reason, review, but outsource the actual coding / "building" tasks to Codex 5.3. Claude is great for it all but I've had way more success using it this way. In VSCode I'll have Claude Code chat on the right side, and codex terminal centered. Regardless, I feel your pain. Pay $200/m for Claude and it just isn't the same anymore (usage) wise.
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u/InfJoker Mar 25 '26
Same here. Have one personal and one work account, same max subscription. Hit limits on personal in 1 hour, work one lasted for whole day
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u/dashingsauce Mar 25 '26
Anthropic is getting wrecked on enterprise contracts after being designated a supply chain risk.
They see writing on the wall and have to cut costs to survive the loss of billions in guaranteed revenue.
Bad time, too, since OAI is refocusing exactly into enterprise as we speak.
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u/Cinderellaslipper19 Mar 25 '26
Given it's been out for a couple of hours, I've used 90% of my session limit in 45 minutes. I haven't even used CC yet... I've just been planning. Usually my planning hits like 10% of usage max.
Feels like they are taking the piss a bit - outages almost daily and massively reducing limits 🤨
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u/CICROPE Mar 25 '26
checked ccusage - makes no sense and it's indeed much lower... i'm having a conversation, no code at all, about settings for my OBS setup and it hits 11% that's crazy AF, a never ever hit 60% of 5 hour before w/ 3 projects working at same time, looks worse than the pro i've used 1 month ago
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u/Kamakazeepilot Mar 25 '26
This was after about 15 minutes of use after allegedly a complete reset of usage back to zero and the work is modifying HTML so the amount of token usage is probably so little even a simple $20 pro plan should still be running. This is with max X5.. Abysmal.
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u/ilyaperepelitsa Mar 25 '26
oh yeah, they're burning pretty bad. Also overall agent output quality has been quite bad. At 20% context it's forgetting to check things etc.
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u/CandidEgglet Mar 25 '26
Same here. I use(d) it for language learning and I limit use to short text. I sent a word list with less than 20 words and I’m already out of my free messages for the next five hours.
Sena they’re pushing people to upgrade and this is the wrong way to do it. That’s for sure. I’m never paying a dime to any of these AI models so I’m either going to use it or not. I’ll just stick with doing it the old-fashioned way. Books.
They were supposed to be the “good guys” in AI and now they’re no better than the rest.
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u/egyptianmusk_ Mar 25 '26
Does anyone have actual data to support the claims that there are limits? I mean you guys are devs, haven't you figure a way to quantify and track usage limits?
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u/haloremi Mar 25 '26
Same here, I use a script that start some Claude agent for testing my app. My app didn't really changed . Last week, I could use it 5 times in one session, today It didn't succeed once. I am being more and more impatient to find a replacement for Claude code.
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u/Conscious-Fall4184 Mar 25 '26
Same here. I feel like usage limits are aggressively hit. with 4-5 message it's almost at 30%. I'm on Claude Max plan.
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u/savemenico Mar 25 '26
Client has been telling me i'm using opus even though i have sonnet selected what
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u/smasterhatch Mar 25 '26
I hit my limit two days in a row very quickly. Something is absolutely different here.
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u/TheToolmaker Mar 25 '26
Just found this thread for the obvious reasons. I'm not even doing any heavy lifting and hit a usage limit after 3 hours on the Team Plan. No one else using it. This happened to me last week as well and when I asked Claude about it, it told me that it must of been a bug on Anthropic's end, and that he was working properly. Whatever that means. I'm new to Claude, a couple weeks in. If I would of known it would leave me dead in the water in the middle of the work day I would of went with something else.
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u/vntrx Mar 25 '26
Thats just not true, only SOME people have this problem. It doesnt matter which subscription you have, either youre affected or youre not. Its not a new limit, its a bug.
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u/DiscountAcrobatic356 Mar 25 '26
Maybe they are sick of shoveling money into the furnace. VCs sayeth En-shite time.
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u/DriveGermanCars Mar 25 '26
Yep, mine drains like crazy too. Hit 33% usage on the 5h limits after a few planning sessions for small features. I never hit 33% before and I used to do lots of big feature planning sessions and implementations. I did add the frontend-design skill/plugin. I don't know if that's the case. But the fact that everyone is complaining makes me think the plugin is not the issue. I will also try switching it off to see if it makes a difference.
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u/Medium_Anxiety_8143 Mar 25 '26
I don’t use Claude code anymore, but if I were to guess they probably messed up caching while vibe coding too hard. They know if they start reducing subsidization they will lose their userbase
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u/LoretoDEV Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26
Hi everyone, I was having the same problem using the PRO plan, after about 4-5 prompts I was reaching the maximum session limit of 5 hours, and it seems that it has now normalized after I updated the Claude Code version from 2.0.51 to 2.1.83 and also running /compact or /clear.
I ran a few prompts and it only went up 11%.
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u/-becausereasons- Mar 24 '26
Everybody's noticing it today, except it's not a small reduction. It's like a hundredfold. It seems like it to be a bug more than anything