[meetingthrower]

I don't get it. Last week on the 100 bucks plan I generated probably 50k LOC (not a quality measure for sure!) and just barely kissed the weekly limit. I did get rate limited on some sessions for sure, but that's to be expected.

I'm curious what are people doing that is consuming your limits? I can't imagine filling the $200 a month plan unless I was essentially using Claude code itself as the api to mass process stuff? For basic coding what are people doing?

[SkyPuncher]

This is the problem most people are facing. Before March, I had hit the rate limit as single time. That involved security audit of our entire code base from a few different angles.

As of now, I’m consistently hitting my 5 hour limit in less than 1 hour during N/A business hours. I’m getting to the point where I basically can’t use CC for work unless I work very early or late in the day.

[wellthisisgreat]

$200 plan and VERY tame usage (not 24/7, not every day even, maybe 8-10 hours for ~4 days). Suddenly I am at 96% weekly (!) limit, multiple session limits, two daily limits.

Either they decimated the limits internally, or they broke something.

Tried all the third-party tricks (headroom, etc.), switched to 200k context window, switched back to 4.5.

I hope 4.5 will help, but the rest of the efforts didn’t move the needle much

[dgellow]

I have the same experience as you. I’m wondering if it is regional? I’m in Europe so don’t overlap much with US usage, which is likely to be way higher

[danielbln]

Also in Europe and can only agree. Granted I'm on the 20x plan, but I have yet to hit a limit once and I'm using Claude 12h+ per day on multiple projects.

[fluidcruft]

I don't hit limits either on $100, it's more that claude-code seems to be constantly broken and they added some vague bullshit about not using claude-code before 2pm so I just don't expect it to work anymore and tend to use codex-cli as my driver nowadays. I also never hit limits in codex but... codex is $20/mo not $100/mo so it's making me consider relocating the $100 I spend to Anthropic as play money for z.ai and other tools. I think claude-code has great training wheels (codex does not) but once the training wheels come off, and claude-code becomes as unreliable as it has been then it makes you consider alternatives.

[hgoel]

They had a 2x usage cap promotion that was active after 2pm. They weren't saying that you shouldn't use Claude before 2pm.

[fluidcruft]

Is that true? What I saw was an official announcement linked on the claude code subreddit that said that if you claude code within the high-demand times using a subscription account, then you will now burn through your usage faster than previously. They did have a promotion as a carrot but the stick is the stick.

[hgoel]

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14063676-claude-march...

"Usage remains unchanged" between 8am and 2pm.

I feel the Claude subreddits are mostly full of speculation and dramatics, not much productive discussion, like endless exaggerated complaining about downtime. Pretty much the same as a pretty significant chunk of reddit nowadays.

Edit: the rumor was probably stemming from this https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/26/anthropic_tweaks_usag...

It does look pretty bad, especially not announcing it on a primary channel, but also they claim it's balanced out by efficiency gains and would affect 7% of users overall and 2% of 20x users.

[fluidcruft]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Anthropic/comments/1s4iefu/update_o...

is an official post by Anthropic.

> Your weekly limits remain unchanged. During peak hours (weekdays, 5am–11am PT / 1pm–7pm GMT), you'll move through your 5-hour session limits faster than before. Overall weekly limits stay the same, just how they're distributed across the week is changing.

I'm Eastern time and peak usage works out as 8am-2pm (the bulk of my work day). It's nice that Europe gets to use it in the morning and Pacific gets to use it in the afternoon, but this is completely bullshit and infuriating. I would have no problem if it were 2x outside peak but that's NOT what they're saying.

[hgoel]

Yeah I hadn't been aware of that change previously. I'm also ET, but perhaps I just don't use it enough to hit the limits. They could definitely do to be more transparent, maybe instead of percentages, show a "credit" allocation such that the time-based variation in 5-hour windows is visible.

[ryandrake]

Yea, I found myself maxing out the $20/mo plan occasionally, so I tried the $100/mo, but I don't think I even once even approached the session limit, let alone the weekly limit. And this is doing what I would consider heavy, continuous programming. I probably ought to go back down to $20 one. It would be nice if they had a cheaper tier in between them, but the tiers they have are probably a good business trick to get people to buy much more than they need.

[hk__2]

I’m on the $20/mo plan right now and I hit the limit in under an hour, sometimes 20-30 minutes. I don’t understand how people can work with this plan; maybe it was better before?

[Jensson]

Probably depends on the size of your codebase and how AI friendly it is.

[bmurphy1976]

Anthropic is going through major growing pains, both technical and organizational. The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. It's chaos, things are changing too quickly, and us users are getting caught in the middle of it.

Think Twitter's fail-whale problems. Sometimes you are lucky, sometimes you aren't. Why? We won't know until Anthropic figures it out and from the outside it sure looks like they're struggling.

[rafaelmn]

I'm in the same camp but I mostly do backed. My coworker doing frontend is chewing through rate limits consistently. React code is quite logic shallow, stuff gets pulled in all over so not localized, especially when you start using js styling frameworks - hundreds of k of tokens to do simple changes.

If you start to parallelize and you have permission prompts on you're likely missing cache windows as well.

[freedomben]

What does it look like when you get rate limited? Does the instance just kind of sit and spin?

I suspect I was getting rate limited very aggressively on Thursday last week. It honestly infuriated me, because I'm paying $200 a month for this thing. If it's going to rate limit me, at least tell me what it's doing instead of just making it seem like it's taking 12 hours to run through something that I would expect to be 15 minutes. The worst part is that it never even finished it.

[gedy]

> because I'm paying $200 a month for this thing.

My gut feeling is this is not enough money for them by far (not to mention their investors), and we'll eventually get ratcheted up inline with dev salaries. E.g. "look how many devs you didn't have to hire", etc.

[SkyPuncher]

I’ve never been actually rate limited. Usage limits display in yellow when you’re above 90%. At the limit, you’ll get a red error message.

[prmoustache]

Looks like the enshittification simply started much quicker than other disruptive techs due to operating costs.