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by virtualritz 223 days ago
> [...] I'm using Opus 4.1 which is much better but seems to have much lower usage limits than before Sonnet 4.5 was released [...]

Yes, it's down from 40h/week to 3-5h/week on Max plan, effectively. A real bummer. See my comment here [1] regarding [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45604301

[2] https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/8449

2 comments

Thanks, didn't know that but aligns with my experience
Glad I'm not imagining it, I'll be cancelling my sub. Paying for things only for them to get worse and the provider hoping I don't notice is such a fucking vile tactic.

In my experience sonnet 4.5 is basically pointless, it often gets non-trivial tasks wrong, and for trivial tasks I can use a local model or one of the myriad of providers that give free inference.

EDIT: Holy shit I read the github issue, fuck these people.

> We highly recommend Sonnet 4.5 -- Opus uses rate limits faster, and is not as capable for coding tasks.

They're just straight gaslighting us now lmao.