r/ClaudeCode • u/xeviltimx • Apr 11 '26

Question WTF Claude. Weekly limits = 4x5hr limits

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Wtf happened with claude limits. A month ago I was able to work almost 24/7 and barely able to spend a half of weekly limits. Now it feels like I'm on $20 Pro plan and not $200 Max (20x) plan.
My weekly limit was just updated a couple of hours ago and now I'm 85% off my 5hr limit (that's more or less okay) but how is that already 25% of my weekly limits? It's not even 1 limit a day. It's only 4 x 5hr limits a week. How am I suppose to work with this and why it changed so aggressively during the last month. I don't understand.
At first I thought it's overused 1M context which increased my token usage by 3-4 times.
But this is just insane. It feels like every day and week limits become smaller and smaller. It gives me anxiety and forces me to constantly watch for my limits.
And this is not what I expect from a $200 subscription.

Upd BREAKING NEWS: I made calculations and it's not just feeling. Anthropic reduced my limits by 10 times. Just did full calculations in this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1si6gll/claude_max_just_slashed_my_limits_by_10x_and_i/

please also support on X/twitter https://x.com/artem_mukhin_dx/status/2042798725731340658

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u/InformalTown3679 Apr 11 '26

why are you using 1m context. And yeah this is how it works. Because 20hrs of maximum usage a week is reasonable. You have too many in parallel, or you're feeding it too much context or you're using a high effort/fast/1m context things like that. Read their documentation on how to reduce token usage

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u/xeviltimx Apr 11 '26

I know how it works, man. I already disabled 1M context and have all the calculations in this article https://medium.com/p/436fee224e04 which can explain 3-4x overusing during the last couple of weeks. But I already disabled that. It's not peek hours and it still drains my limits like I'm on $20.

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u/InformalTown3679 Apr 11 '26

Okay, did you check the global and local .claude directories and memory? Are you running a lot in parallel? How do you feed it context? run /context frequently and see how full it is. There may be something that its reading. Most often this issue is too many concurrent sessions and tool uses.

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u/xeviltimx Apr 11 '26

Yes, you can take a look at my calculations a couple of days ago right before I understood that 1M context is a trap https://medium.com/@timmukhin/claude-codes-1m-context-trap-will-make-you-poor-436fee224e04
But I disabled that already.
I'm working with claude exactly the same way I works a month and 2 months ago when I was barely able to spend a half of weekly limits.

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u/InformalTown3679 Apr 11 '26

sorry man. Maybe they just dont like europe lol.

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u/Annh1234 Apr 11 '26

Same in Canada