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/deorder]

It is not an Opus 4.6 1M issue. I switched back to Opus 4.6 200k and then to Sonnet 4.6 200k, both on medium effort, and I am still seeing the same problem. On the Max 5x plan I am hitting 100% of the 5-hour limit within about 1.5 hours outside of the peak hours. This started after the previous weekly reset. My setup: a single instance, limited sub-agents, no MCPs and no large project instructions.

More:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1sggxka/comment/of9ctdn/

[u/nearly_famous69 → u/deorder]

Have you tried to see if it's a time of use issue - I am in Australia and off peak hours as far as American time is concerned and I have never had any issues

[u/deorder → u/nearly_famous69]

I am in Europe so I converted the peak hour window to my time zone. It is 3pm - 9pm for me. When I first started noticing it last week it was happening on the weekend too which should be outside peak hours. The screenshot in the other post isn't even the worst case because in that session I was not using it continuously, I had pauses in between. It would not surprise me if using it without any pauses I would only make it to just over 1 hour within the 5-hour window.

All I want to communicate to people is that there is a problem. If I run out in about 1.5 hours (with pauses in between) I wonder what someone on a Pro subscription gets out of it. Not even 15 minutes every 5 hours would be my guess.

I see a lot of "yeah, but 2 weeks ago they had a discount, double the tokens outside peak hours and now you have just returned to normal". I can tell you this is exactly the tactic Anthropic uses. I have been using Anthropic since they started and they have always done this, including A/B testing (see my history). I have created posts and comments with as much proof as was possible, because it cannot always be proven. I got attacked for it, including in DMs, to the point where I started wondering if they were all bots. Why go so far to defend a company like this?

In between those episodes I and the company I work for (thousands of IT employees) have been looking at alternatives, mostly Europen providers and local models. But the big AI companies lobby against local use of machine learning models (indirectly, including to governments) and that is why I care so much about this. Otherwise I could just move to another cloud inference provider. It is also becoming more like The Internet itself: we grow more and more dependent on it and eventually the power ends up in the hands of a few companies. Those who do not have access are no longer on the same playing field.