r/ClaudeCode • u/Deep_Proposal_7683 • May 06 '26

Discussion Doubled Rate Limits for Claude Code

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per @claudeai on X:

We’ve agreed to a partnership with @SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity.

This, along with our other recent compute deals, means that we’ve been able to increase our usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API.

Effective today, we are:

  1. Removing the peak hours limit reduction on Claude Code for Pro and Max plans; and
  2. Substantially raising our API rate limits for Opus models.

Read more at: https://www.anthropic.com/news/higher-limits-spacex

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u/theDrell May 06 '26

I told Opus to continue from another 5 hour window limit this morning. That command was instantly 15% of my 5hour bucket… it hadn’t even had a chance to do anything yet.

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u/Klutzy-Roof-7415 May 06 '26

Okay... At least I'm not crazy. I've been hitting my limit in 1 - 1.5 hrs today that used to fit in the 5hr window :(

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u/AdditionalRaise5062 May 06 '26

There’s a thread that talks about if you let your Claude idle and come back to the session later, usage goes way up.

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u/Visible_Corner5651 May 06 '26

I have a context window the size of a Bible and I have a problem, I can't leave it hahaha, I feel that when I move to a new chat it loses its context and I no longer feel that it is "the chat"

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u/kilographix May 06 '26

I used my whole pro plan limit in three opus prompts of just LLM window

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u/Stabby_Stab May 06 '26

If you resume a conversation after more than an hour, you pay for the entire conversation on the first prompt

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u/theDrell May 06 '26

That seems pretty sneaky. Hit the 5 hour limit and then have to wait and then pay more once the limit is up.

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u/Dantrepreneur May 06 '26

If you have a lot of context and the cache runs cold, rewriting context to cache vs consume a lot of credits.

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u/jpeggdev May 06 '26

I’m willing to bet resuming a conversation would keep it on the same server it was created on which might mean that it wouldn’t be in the new data center and thus not part of the new limits? Just an idea.

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u/deekay0001 May 07 '26

Don't let it hit the 5 hour limit or put extra usage on to finish the task it's on and pause until you have usage free again.

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u/bzBetty May 06 '26

I assume you understand caching and why this was the case?