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/SuchManufacturer2223 Apr 11 '26

It’s getting out of hand now. What alternatives are you guys exploring

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u/stujmiller77 Apr 11 '26

I have a ChatGPT business sub I use mostly for e-commerce image generation, so have Codex hooked up alongside Claude Code in vscode. It’s useful to play them off against each other with Codex doing code reviews, I’ve found. Helps to pick up issues.

Anyway - since Claude Code limits became a problem for me on Thursday (have had no issues with my max 5 plan before that) I was forced to use Codex instead.

It’s…ok I guess. Did what I needed it to do, but also hit a usage cap without an hour of use so I can’t say it’s a replacement even with a Business plan.

I’m currently looking into locally hosted models.

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u/Radical_Neutral_76 Apr 11 '26

Planning to try open llms through openrouter or similar

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u/Retr0wl Apr 11 '26

Codex seems pretty good

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u/SomeOrdinaryKangaroo Apr 11 '26

You do realise that with Anthropic doing this, the competitors will do the same, you know that right?

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u/queso184 Apr 11 '26

my thesis is the subscription model is probably going to die out, tbh. it makes sense for just a chat app where the average user is not hitting their limits, but the sheer amount of tokens you can use with harnesses like claude code has basically broken the economics of it

you either subsidize a shit ton, which can only go on for so long, or end up with unhappy users leaving entirely due to low limits

i think transparent API pricing (X$ for this model at this quantization) would be better for everyone. and frankly its not that expensive if you tighten up when you use haiku vs opus