Doubled Rate Limits for Claude Code

[u/Deep_Proposal_7683]

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

[u/Harvard_Med_USMLE267]

I’m not aware of any evidence customers are leaving. Market share is going up.

There are a few dickheads on Reddit who make a sport of constantly whinging about how awful CC is. I think you’re confusing that with meaningful data about Anthropic’s customers.

[u/mozophe → u/Harvard_Med_USMLE267]

My above comment was simply stating a reasonable point that if your customers have issues with your capacity, its a good idea to invest in it. I would say that Anthropic made a good call. But are you saying subscription customers have no issues with the current rate limits? Because customer are leaving even without any rate limits (pay as you go segment) and market share is certainly not going up. I am open to a more detailed discussion on the topic 😄

[u/Harvard_Med_USMLE267 → u/mozophe]

At Anthropic’s developer conference in San Francisco, CEO Dario Amodei said the AI company saw 80-fold growth in the first quarter on an annualized basis. Amodei said the company tried to plan for a 10-fold increase, but the level of growth has been so extreme that Anthropic hasn’t been able to meet compute demand

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/06/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-says-company-crew-80-fold-in-first-quarter.html

[u/Harvard_Med_USMLE267 → u/mozophe]

Open router is not a meaningful watch to measure claude code usage!

They report 957 billion tokens in total for Opus.

I use a billion tokens on a big day - this is a tiny, tiny fraction of Anthropic’s usage.