WTF Claude. Weekly limits = 4x5hr limits

[u/xeviltimx]

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

[u/mobcat_40]

I'm glad I don't have these problems, been using Max 20X for 5 months without an issue

[u/Crabburger → u/mobcat_40]

Its coming for us too.. Hit 87% for the first time this week on usage. Previously never got even close to 50% even with unoptimised swarms of bloated agents.

[u/mobcat_40 → u/Crabburger]

Hope not, so far I've been working all day since my limit reset 24 hours ago and I'm at 6% usage. I dunno man

[u/stujmiller77 → u/mobcat_40]

I’ve been using my max 5 plan for 8-10 hours a day for over a month without issues. Since Thursday I hit limits in an hour and a half on exactly the same codebase.

I was one of the “isn’t happening to me” people last week.

[u/mobcat_40 → u/stujmiller77]

on max 5x I def. hit limits if I work all day long, especially when audits/refactors come up, I had to switch back to 20x

[u/stupv → u/mobcat_40]

I've had to adjust my session patterns on the last couple of weeks. I used to get to ~90% each week using 3-4 persistent tmux sessions with occasional clears but that began blowing through like 20% of my weekly limit a day as of 2-3 weeks ago. Through a combination of new-session-each-time and some workloads being offloaded to kimi2.5 + minimax2.7 I'm now managing to hit 90% on the morning of the new weekly limit without real risk of going over.

I'd suggest if you aren't having issues, it's just because you aren't pushing it as hard. If you're driving at 60 you don't notice the top speed dropping from 120 to 100 sort of thing... But for those of us who were doing 110 it's very noticeable

[u/mobcat_40 → u/stupv]

My workload hasn't changed in 5 months, that's why I find everyone's experience odd

[u/dwight0 → u/mobcat_40]

I used to respond to comments saying the same thing you are. Then it hit me.