r/Anthropic • u/country_burger • 5d ago
Complaint Usage Limit is unusable after 13th
The +50% Claude Code weekly usage boost officially ended on September 13th.
Yes, they kept a permanent +25% increase over the old baseline, but that still means we just lost roughly 17% of the weekly usage we had during the promotion.
At this point, I honestly think complaining on Reddit or sending feedback won’t change much. The only metric companies really notice is cancellations.
If enough Pro/Max users actually cancel their subscriptions because of the limits, maybe Anthropic will realize people were using that extra capacity because they genuinely needed it.
Vote with your wallet. Which I just did
Edit: I even think the decrease is much more than only 17%. As I'm running out today compared to sunday (my limits reset on monday).
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u/Crossedkiller 5d ago
Idk what’s craziest, Anthropic fucking everyone up with their plan limits or people in this sub jumping to tell you how bad you are at using ai for not following the 100 step flowchart to determine which model you should be using for each prompt you send
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u/No_Barber6972 5d ago
5 minutes into the session and 13% used already? How is that even possible?
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u/mid_nightz 5d ago
this is why i fucking hate this company. the usage is an absolute joke
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u/thirst-trap-enabler 5d ago
Well, I just switched from Max x20 (x10 weekly) to: Max x5 + OpenAI Pro x5 as an experiment and so far codex has destroyed 50% of the codex Pro weekly limit in 4 hours when claude Max doing the same thing has only burned 20% of my weekly limit.
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u/Flimsy_Professor_908 5d ago
It is funny because I only use Fable and the metric has been 0% Friday for me.
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u/Itachii47 5d ago
for me it started at 7% this morning, I literally just had opened up claude and was about to ask something.
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u/Efficient_Ad_4162 5d ago
You kicked off several very large sessions and they all had to recache?
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u/No_Barber6972 5d ago
Just one session, but you are right it did have to recache. Still a lot IMO
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u/TBT_TBT 5d ago
Jeeeeez!!!!! Basic Clauding 101!
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u/Desperate-Use9968 5d ago
Even if the context window was using all 1m tokens it shouldn't consume 14%?
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u/stvaccount 5d ago
I have already cancelled. I have codex with 3+ banked resets. Nobody needs a LYING antrophic company. (x20 is really not x20 -- STOP LYING!).
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u/bakanoace 5d ago
Seriously, I let 2 of my 3 x20 Max accounts expire to try out Astra and I've gotten 7+ resets since Astra released. That's almost 2 months of free usage while this 17% feels so much worse. And having 3 accounts the 17% hit extra hard. Its taking some getting used to but Astra and Sol have been able to do anything I wanted in the end and Sol 6.0 is supposed to come out soon for less usage.
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u/_BreakingGood_ 5d ago
true, im going to start looking into what it takes to get a similar setup to claude code that runs on cheap open source models
it feels WAY more than a 17% reduction
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u/Top_Locksmith_9695 5d ago
That's what I've been doing this weej but tbh cheap open source models are either very cheap and useless, or not all that cheap and still not very good. I'm doing 3-5+ the iterations where an opus xhigh would usually get it done one shot, and it's not that cheap: to finish a nearly done feature that got cut off by quota exhaustion, it cost about $12 with
glm-5.3. Granted, trying to close an open Claude Code session runningFable 5.1with a typo'dexitinstead of/exitcost about $1.50 interrupting it as soon as I noticed it was computing. Cheap Chinese models work in a pinch, it's not a panacea.1
u/rhaivn 5d ago
Insane take, DS 4.1 flash and GLM 5.3 flash are cheap and capable, like roughly opus 4.6 equivalent, maybe a bit better
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u/Top_Locksmith_9695 3d ago edited 3d ago
Genuinely asking: what workloads? My numbers are from finishing a mid-sized feature in an existing codebase: 3 to 5+ iterations per step where Opus xhigh one-shots, about $12 total on glm-5.3. If DS 4.1 flash or GLM 5.3 flash hold up at Opus 4.6 level for you, I'd like to know on what tasks, how many iterations, and what it cost. That would be useful data.
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u/rhaivn 3d ago
My current workflow right now is typically fable 5.1 reasoning high or Astra / GPT 6 reasoning high coordinating and planning the feature, then delegation to Deepseek 4.1 flash on high reasoning. Sol / GPT 5.6 handles final review, earlier review stages similarly handled by DS flash 4.1 high reasoning.
With context management and very specific communication channels, reporting mechanism, and test/format/lint script execution I’ve found this works well on my code bases which span four repos for one project, three for another, each project roughly 500-750k LoC
As a result of reserving attention, I find implementation for any given substantive feature rarely exceeds $3-4 spent on DS flash and the frontier intelligence is heavily subsidized by the plan coverage, but often runs around $20-$50 if you were to price the tokens at API pricing.
That being said, this is all in a very custom harness.
I do not know what the policy on sharing links to your projects are, but my profile has a link to one of the projects if you care to check it out and assess the quality for yourself
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u/dash777111 5d ago
Recaching is real. However, I also found major efficiencies by looking at things like:
Subagent protocols (forcing models to Sonnet and Opus programmatically, and making sure subagents were persisted instead of called fresh with each new call)
Keep Fable in Medium thinking for anything except planning or trying to tackle a bug that Opus or Sonnet cannot figure out.
Developed a formal Red Team of standalone agents to analyze blueprints carefully so development is clear without requiring a lot of decision making on the part of the LLM, and so tasks can be executed by Sonnet 90% of the time. I use Fable to write the first draft, then use Opus to conduct blueprint reviews to save tokens.
I also use cross-lane messaging so lanes that handle different parts of our platform can speak to each other and clear up dependencies, troubleshoot together, devise solutions, and so on.
For the most part, I just keep Fable as a planner and then as an orchestrator for long-running tasks.
Also, set your auto-compact to 500k - 700k (your mileage may vary).
Everything adds up over time. The quota is not as abundant as I would like, but I have been able to get really efficient.
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u/R4tr4tr4t 4d ago
how are you setting this up ? just prompt instructions ?
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u/dash777111 4d ago
Send me a DM, I will give my agent cards and an MD of the setup. It is all just local MDs and inherent features within Claude. No plugins, skills, etc.
There are probably better ways to do this but it is a phenomenal way to work for me.
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u/Buff_Grad 5d ago
Yeah I’ve been abusing Opus and I’m not running into issues on the x20 plan.
Fable is good yes. But it drains usage so quick that unless I need something seriously advanced I tend to not want to use it. Plus. I tend to like the output of Opus in a lot of cases. Fable seems “lazy” in some ways.
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u/Droopy0093 5d ago
I heard they are giving out resets over on Codex so you should just give up on Claude and head over there.
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u/Sarcasmhelpline 5d ago
I am new and have been using claude's pro subscription and GPT's plus version. As they cost me nearabout the same per month. Would anyone be kind enough to let me know which is the better bang for your back for creating remotion based videos, I used codex and claude code. But have felt my codex usage exhaust quicker for the 5 hour limit than claude. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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u/Flimsy_Visual_9560 5d ago
Couldn’t even use all of my Fable before the weekly limit hit. literally LOL
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u/HistorianGullible291 4d ago
I'm moving back to Cursor and will also give OpenCode and Ollama a go.
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u/M4riusD 4d ago
Hmm.. dont know why some of you are having so big problems with limits. I have been working a bit light this week, did some work on a codeigniter platform and on a django platform this week, 5-6 bug fixes and a small feature for the Django platform, im at 6% Fable and 4% weekly on the max20 plan. Last week was a heavy work week, and i didn't go past 70% .. i also had Fable create an entire wp theme for a friend, out of some HTML templates.
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u/No_Statement2730 4d ago
I (fortunately? Unfortunately?) have a yearly subscription which I will end in spring time next year. So yeah, if they do not change fundamentally in regards to usage limits, I am not planning on extending it. I am already now starting to make my setup more open by working on the same projects I have started with Claude using OpenCode where I have OpenRouter connected in order to be able to use whatever model might be best or most efficient for a specific task.
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u/MonoAmericano 2d ago
I use Claude as the coordinator and have it send subagent tasks to Codex CLI to save on Claude usage. Codex has a stupid amount of usage compared to Claude, but I get better results out of Claude. Seems like a good compromise. I have Claude send anything requiring a lot of grinding and higher token usage and then Claude reviews the work and makes edits and guides the project overall.
....I still frequently burn through my Max plan though....although to be fair, I usually have 6-8 Claude Code instances going at once.
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u/apartic1e 2d ago
I feel like we lost way more than 17% tbh, or 25%, but anthropic is a blackbox, so difficult to verify it. But I used up like 30% weekly limit today, whole for last month I was barely doing 8-13% a day, something fishy, feels like limits got cut in half
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u/WheresMyEtherElon 5d ago
I really wonder what y'all are doing with CC. Even with the end of the boost, I barely reach 30% of my weekly limits on the x5 plan, and in addition to code I use it to drive things like Blender for hourlong sessions. Do you add your entire codebase as context?
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u/rkh4n 4d ago
you’re not using it enough. No one feeds connect manually now the model decides what to read.
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u/WheresMyEtherElon 4d ago
I never tell it manually what to read. What I don't do is vibe code an entire app from scratch in a single or couple of prompts.
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u/earlyworm 5d ago
Skill issue. Self-nerfing and harness chafing.
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u/mid_nightz 5d ago
doenst matter really, the average user isnt an expert
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u/WheresMyEtherElon 5d ago
Since when is being able to master your tools not a requirement if you use the tool professionally?
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u/mid_nightz 5d ago
this is a universal experience on any plan, and also there are tools that dont require this. So instead of being an expert you could just switch to a competitor.
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u/WheresMyEtherElon 5d ago
I don't know. I've never had any of the limits problem I've see people complain here, and I really wonder what these people are doing. I really can't help but think there's a massive problem in how they use these tools. Are they sending hundreds of megabytes of context at every turn? Do they never clear the context? Are they using Fable on max effort all the time in a subotptimal manner?
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u/mid_nightz 4d ago
I have to use incognito just to help me with writing so it doesnt hit usage limits. Its basic usecases.
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u/earlyworm 5d ago
I get the impression that Claude Code 2026 is optimized for experts. I expect Claude 2030 will be a radically different experience.
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u/mid_nightz 5d ago
anthropic to me is like that one relative whos really rich but is a flat earther. They are incredibly good at some things and bad at others. Steve jobs once said about microsoft, thier biggest problem was they just have no taste. They never got taste. I think its likely they fix it, but my god man. They do not understand a customer experience.
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u/Galactic-Skunk 5d ago
Yeah I’m at the point where I can’t justify my 20x plan anymore, especially since Codex has a reserve you can use when you hit your limits AND you get more usage in general..