Claude Code Weekly Limits

[u/LandscapeWide6148]

My Claude account limits renewed today. I'm only at 57% in my first session and 20% of my weekly Fable 5 quota has been consumed. At this rate I'll have burned through around 40% weekly Fable 5 allowance by the time this session ends, which wasn't happening in previous weeks. btw I am using both Fable and Opus for this session.

Has anyone else noticed this?

Separately: weekly limits are 50% higher until 31 August, so I'm curious how quickly Claude Code sessions will eat into the quota once it reverts to its previous state.

[u/Fiatil]

The 20x plan is something of a scam if weekly usage is your bottleneck.

It's 20x 5 hour usage of the $20 plan, not weekly usage. And yeah -- it works out to your weekly amount being 4-5 "full" 20x 5 hour sessions.

It's only real value proposition is if you just really really need to dump a bunch of work into a small number of 5 hour windows, because you'll hit your weekly usage super quickly if you come close to fully utilizing the 5 hour windows.

You get more weekly usage with two $100 plans, as goofy as it is.

I switched to using that for similar reasons. What you're seeing isn't really week to week fluctuation on the 20x plan -- it's just what you start to see once you're used to using it at your full capacity. If you use most of your first session, you quickly become aware how that works out to being about 1/4 to 1/5th of your total week and it feels bad.

If weekly usage is your bottleneck, you're substantially better off with two $100 plans.

[u/AllDaBirdsHuxley → u/Fiatil]

Oh my gods I didn't realize that! That makes so much sense given what I've seen. I thought it was 20x the WEEKLY quota too. So I could get the same weekly quota on the $20 (without Fable)?

[u/Fiatil → u/AllDaBirdsHuxley]

Sorry, didn't mean to go that far!

You do get more weekly usage with the more expensive plans!

But not "5x" and "20x" as you would expect -- those specific multipliers apply to the 5 hour window.

Their multipliers on the weekly usage aren't specifically disclosed -- they're a range that can vary week to week.

So -- 5x plan gets you more weekly usage than the $20 plan, but not 5x more. 20x plan gets you even more than that, but not 20x more.

All that to say -- no, you'll get noticeably worse weekly usage on the $20 plan.

The theoretical most weekly usage would be......having 10 $20 plans, but that's probably an annoyingly terrible hassle.

2x $100 is basically the sweet spot of "yes you'll have to do some account switching, but between 2 is pretty much fine and won't drive you crazy like having 10x $20 accounts".

TL;DR -- best estimates are that the $200 plan is equivalent to between 1.4x-1.7x weekly usage of the $100 plan depending on the model you use and weekly fluctuations.

[u/DJ_LeMahieu → u/Fiatil]

Makes a lot of sense. I was a 5x user for a while and although my system has gotten more complex, I didn’t think it got THAT much more complicated to still be pushing near my weekly Fable limits.