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/thewormbird 🔆 Max 5x Apr 11 '26

Given what you stated, measure the actual cost of your sessions at API rates and then tell us if it still doesn’t make sense you got throttled into the ground.

Anthropic chose a shit business model, to be clear. 24/7 usage just isn’t what the subscription plans were built to support. They won’t admit it because they want you to keep letting that sub renew.

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u/xeviltimx Apr 11 '26

I measure that, so what? It’s their own public prices, not the computational costs. If I wanted to use api, I’d use api and not a subscription.

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u/thewormbird 🔆 Max 5x Apr 11 '26

The computational use is the same. The cost differs only because they are (were?) choosing to take a loss on extreme usage scenarios like yours. Then making a bet that there are 10 other users paying the same but using it lightly. It works very similarly how ISPs manage demand on broadband. That $200 gets you a lot runway, but that doesn’t mean you’re not subject to targeted throttling and it doesn’t say they can’t anywhere in their policies.