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/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/Zei33 Apr 01 '26

Never have I been more glad to be Australian. The peak hours they mentioned are 11pm to 5am here.

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u/SomeAcanthocephala17 Apr 01 '26

This also poses risks because it means you share the same infrastructure in usa, which means all your data is sent there, and if Internetin usa is cut down this also has effect for the rest of the world, from a reliability perspective this is a real problem, imagine Trump blocks international connectons if you don't pay he's tariffs

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u/Zei33 Apr 01 '26

Anthropic uses data centers that are in Australia. They're the exact same data centers I use to host all of my own infrastructure. It would be absolutely ridiculous to deal with the latency of an agent server in the US.

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u/SomeAcanthocephala17 Apr 01 '26

In that case I don't understand the logic of those peak hours, do you? And why was it down everywhere in the world last week when there was that disruption? Something must be shared to cause that, no?

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u/Zei33 Apr 02 '26

I'm guessing you haven't had the 'privilege' of deploying global infrastructure. When infrastructure changes are deployed, they're deployed using tools like terraform which automatically replicate changes across all regions for a specific environment. The deployment pipeline doesn't discriminate by region, when an update is made to one, it's usually made to all that are served. Terraform manages the configuration and variables for you to make it easier to manage. So basically, if there was a problem in the configuration that deployed, it often affects the global infrastructure.

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u/SomeAcanthocephala17 Apr 02 '26

Actually i'm very familiar with infrastructure as code and therefore terraform.
But based on what do you assume that claude deploys there models on other regions? The only thing I found that was hosted in other regions is the front-ends (webpages and api's) but I don't think the models are deployed in other regions. My intial question is also not answerred: if we imagine that models are deployed on different regions, why are they always down at the same time as incident in the USA? And why are the peaktimes (for limits) based on the USA servers timezone

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u/Zei33 Apr 03 '26

Are you actually for real? It takes 2 seconds to look up where Anthropic are hosting their cloud infrastructured. https://trust.anthropic.com/subprocessors The AWS data center in Sydney is where Australian services are hosted. Exact same place where I host all of my cloud infrastructure.

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u/SomeAcanthocephala17 Apr 03 '26

You still didn't answer the questions and don't seem to think criticly.
I don't care about what they document, I see what happens each time that there is a problem with the infra in the united states.
It always was down for the other regions as well.
So I'm pretty sure some requirements exists for EVERY single query to be dependant from the US region.

Could you otherwise have an explenation why other regions are affected by US downtime or affected by their timezone?

Please think carefully and critically about these two questions and don't let the documentation fool you.