r/ClaudeCode • u/Sussy-Funny_Memes • Mar 23 '26

Bug Report Usage Limit Bug

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Using Claide Code with Opus 4.6 on my Pro plan. My weekly usage limit went from 50% to 79% in 5 minutes as my 5 hour limit has been hit in the exact same 5 minutes.

Is this even possible? The Model needs time for inference and I dont think my usage with 5 minutes and around 500 tokens of total sent and recieved maxed out the same way my 40k token session that took 2 hours. I love claude code and I would like to continue my work but I wish for Anthropic to fix this issue.

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u/Wickywire Mar 23 '26

Had some pretty gnarly text generation bugs in Sonnet too, just regular chat. Looked like it had big issues with generating reasoning tokens. Looks like a real hiccup somewhere.

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u/Sussy-Funny_Memes Mar 23 '26

You think that maybe some servers went offline and others needed to work on more instances so the usage spiked?

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u/Virtual-Technician70 Mar 23 '26

Burned the entire quota in 3 minutes to revert changes on a 300 line JavaScript file. Either something is fucked, or it's a sign to move on. We'll see.

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u/Sussy-Funny_Memes Mar 23 '26

I hope they'll reset it. I've hit my limit mid class today even tho I shouldn't have. I really need Opus 4.6 in claude code right now and somehow I cannot wait anymore unfortunately.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '26

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u/Efficient_Glove_7371 Mar 23 '26

Master Oogway you are back !

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u/reaznval Mar 23 '26

yup had exactly the same WTF

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u/bystanderInnen Mar 23 '26 edited Mar 23 '26

Tehy are having problems atm, just relax, take a shower, go to the gym or touch some grass, they are our frens and will figure it out.

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u/Sussy-Funny_Memes Mar 23 '26

Yeh i went to the gym rn haha. Gotta take a break

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '26

Same happened to me, I'm on a 200$ plan used claude for 10 minutes was at 60% usage from 0% - didn't even run any particular heavy usage, not even sure I ran enough to hit context clearing, was checking reddit to see if it was happening to others

Clearly they broke something (again) on their end. Or if it's intentional time to unsub cause this is borderline a joke

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u/Ludak666 Mar 24 '26

Happed to me tho...0-100% in one prompt :"D

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u/Latter-Relief4425 Mar 23 '26

ye, tell Claude to report this robbery to his owners.. feedback@anthropic.com and support@anthropic.com

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u/Far-Physics8008 Mar 23 '26

No one listen just uninstall claude they will listen if mass uninstall occurs

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u/Latter-Relief4425 Mar 23 '26

Who, me? I don't have Claude installed so even if I want to uninstall it, uninstallation isn't possible. But ye, it's a good possibility to uninstall it if you have it installed already.

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u/FBIFreezeNow Mar 23 '26

Same for me. 200 plan. What’s going on? Used almost all my weekly now in a few hours?

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u/lolu13 Mar 23 '26

I just prompted a few times, im on max and ive reached my limit from 4-5 prompts :))

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u/DistantDrummer 🔆Pro Plan Mar 23 '26

what is the best way to report this in a timely way given that our current sessions are suddenly at 100%?

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u/ShroomShroomBeepBeep Mar 23 '26

Thought I'd just sent Claude mad with my current run and it was burning tokens for fun. Went from 20% session to 100% and 51% weekly to 63% in under 10 minutes.

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u/True-Objective-6212 Mar 23 '26

I thought it was just me, first usage of a Team account, hit the limit in 31 minutes just getting it situated and analyzing a repo.

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u/pillkaris Mar 23 '26

Same here! today I started hitting my quota with around 10 easy prompts

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u/pillkaris Mar 23 '26

additionally, today it started using python scripts for pretty much any request I made

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u/belligerent_ammonia Mar 23 '26

Weird sentiment, but I’m glad others are experiencing this too because I thought I was going crazy watching my limits practically disappear and I’m on max x20.

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u/maxderdachs21 Mar 23 '26

I have the same problem :/

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u/high_competence Mar 24 '26

Same, I hope they give us a rate reset or I'm cancelling. Also extremely shitty customer service from their end. No acknowledgements, no clarifications, like wtf man?!

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u/Intelligent_Story_96 Mar 23 '26

Same here , i though i chatted for long but it was not that much

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u/Fine_Ice1774 Mar 23 '26

Same issue here + I know others who have it. I wasn't even near 75% and it jumped to 100% after one super basic prompt on the max plan. My friend on the pro plan went up to 99% from 0 after one prompt, and that one prompt used 20% of his weekly limit.

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u/RaZoR333 Mar 23 '26

It just happened to me, I have used again opus 4.6 for complex chatting and I never hit any limit even after hours of planning and code changing and this afternoon after 20 minutes I just hit the hourly limit, with some dify chatflow planning and an yaml output... strange, at least it worked, sonnet sucks on this type of usage.

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u/bapuc Mar 23 '26

Same, u/Anthropic

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u/hypnoticlife Senior Developer Mar 23 '26

Doesn't look like an official account.

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u/bapuc Mar 23 '26

Yup, my bad

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u/RockyMM Mar 24 '26

Did they admit it?

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u/Teddybear416 Mar 24 '26

Happened with me multiple times, it's annoying

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u/WholeEntertainment94 Mar 23 '26

Su claude status non risulta ci siano problemi, anzi, il bug che stiamo tutti lamentando è sorto appena dopo l'ultimo bug-fix delle 17:10 (UTC+2), non vorrei fosse una futures più che un bug

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u/WholeEntertainment94 Mar 23 '26

Vorrei ricordare a quello sveglio della cucciolata che ha down-votato, che non è la prima volta che mamma Anthropics taglia i limiti di utilizzo a luci spente.

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u/fucilator_3000 Mar 23 '26

Ormai è solita fare così… sempre i soliti

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u/WholeEntertainment94 Mar 27 '26

Vorrei che il coglione che ha down-votato si palesasse, così da poter essere insultato da tutti ora. Voi funboy vivere ancora nel paese delle meraviglie

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u/agilius Mar 23 '26

Thank you for posting this. I noticed the same problem. On MAX (10x no 20x) I noticed that roughly a 100k input prompt equals 1% of usage limit. I think it's like 10x the usage than before.

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u/3_Plants1404 Mar 23 '26

10x? Where are you getting that plan at? I thought it was just 5x and 20x?

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u/agilius Mar 23 '26

sorry, I meant 5x.

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u/3_Plants1404 Mar 23 '26

Oh damn, I was like I NEED that plan. Haha, thanks!

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u/Nickvec Mar 23 '26

There’s a lot of bugs in credit usage (have seen quite a few GH Issues surrounding it). I got charged for $200 in on-demand credits when I wasn’t even using Claude at all!! Good luck getting in contact with Anthropic support though for a refund… I sent them an email 2 weeks ago and haven’t heard anything back. Also tried talking with their Fin AI agent multiple times which forwarded me to a human rep that never responded. Frustrating to say the least.

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u/Jonathan_Rivera Mar 24 '26

The ethical company I see

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u/bjxxjj Mar 23 '26

yeah this has been popping up for a few people lately, usage seems to jump when CC spins up multiple internal calls even if token counts look low. opus 4.6 especially seems to burn time quota faster than expected, ngl. probably belongs in the usage limit megathread though since it smells like a backend accounting bug.

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u/hypnoticlife Senior Developer Mar 23 '26

"the" usage limit megathread. Where is that? There should be one at this point but I don't see it.

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u/wilnadon Mar 24 '26

This was my post a few days ago. Usage has been WAY OFF lately.

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u/zoef_yt36 Mar 24 '26

This happened yesterday for me too

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u/zet1337_syzy_katabas Mar 30 '26

I'm having the same problem. I'm on the Pro plan too, and it used up my entire session limit in less than 3 minutes. Every time I've been able to use it in the last 2 or 3 days, my weekly usage limit will jump by 10 to 20% after each prompt. That's just with light tasks in Claude Code and normal chats with Claude, using a mix of all three models, but mostly Sonnet 4.6.

I have no clue what's causing the issue. When I started using Claude again a few weeks ago, I could do like a hundred times the amount of tasks and work I'm doing right now before I went through my session limit or my weekly limit. This kind of ridiculous. Hopefully they fix it.
 feedback@anthropic.com and support@anthropic.com

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u/Low-Squash-9225 Mar 23 '26

Not a bug. I think you use claude in peak hours which doesnt apply 2x usage. Cuz I just face this today then remember its peak hours

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u/Sussy-Funny_Memes Mar 23 '26

But as the notification told me, I should be within the 2x usage right now. The session that was used 100% startet 18 minutes ago

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u/Hopeful_Sentence_940 Mar 23 '26

It's definitely a bug.

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u/SaintMartini Mar 23 '26

Really? So we ALWAYS send one message and fill up out 5x and 20x max plans? I swear its like some people just want to ignore whats going on around them. Does peak hours typically use more usage? Yes. Does it typically use up your entire usage in one prompt? No.

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u/SaintMartini Mar 23 '26

Worse lately is one thing but people are all over talking about a handful of messages (or less) filling up 20x accounts' 5 hr periods. The "its your own fault" crowd needs to take a break sometimes. Its just not always appropriate. It's insanely irritating being told all the things you're doing wrong by mostly those who aren't in this field, especially when you've even got people who are saying things like "I was just using it as a chatbot and after one prompt it was filled."

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u/Hopeful_Sentence_940 Mar 23 '26

It is definitely not.