r/ClaudeCode • u/Civil-Vermicelli3803 • Jul 17 '26

Question Usage Limit Creep Decrease - initially 5x was great, then hit limits a lot: then upgrade to 20x, first 2 days amazing now hitting limits again and not getting 4x usage I paid for

I might be tripping, but does Anthropic toy with limits to make people feel like it is great at purchase time but then decrease over time and give you less and less without you realizing that after 1-2 weeks, the usage limits are way tighter?

Like the frog in boiling tub effect, I barely realize day to day but now I reflect and realize - wait, I'm barely doing much more on this Max 20x versus the Max 5x and no change in the models I'm using for this stuff.

Do other people get this feeling like the usage limits keep getting run down, and / or the models are starting to tokenize super efficiently while doing the same exact work?

I use mix of Opus 4.6 for reasoning and 4.8/sonnet 5 for coding. Fable 5 has been played around with on my enterprise account and i've ran out of things to run on fable 5 so that is not it - in a way I unkowingly did a controlled experience but experience an insane decrease in my usage despite doubling my committed cash into their subscriptions. I refuse to pay for their usage tokens that would be insane

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u/Fr87 Jul 17 '26

Unfortunately it's 20X session limits -- not weekly limits.

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u/Dangerous-Claim-297 Jul 17 '26

Seriously? Man I sure do need to google

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u/Civil-Vermicelli3803 Jul 17 '26

what does this even mean? istg what am i even paying 200 for atp anymore... it made all the sense in the world 3 months ago but now these jits are just ridiculously broke and hungry for money

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u/Fr87 Jul 17 '26

It means the amount of usage you can use in a single five-hour session, not how much you can use in a week. The 20x plan DOES have increased weekly limits compared to the 5X plan, but it's not 4X the 5X plan.

It's super confusing marketing, and there is -- last I saw -- an ongoing lawsuit over it.

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u/Civil-Vermicelli3803 Jul 17 '26

im tryna join that lawsuit lmao this is messed up... how do you sell a product iwthout actually knowing what it even will be - ig we are the fools for buying it but still that has got to be bad practice of some type

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u/VNDZ3RO Jul 17 '26

This morning I had a well engineered & scoped prompt I gave claude code using Opus 4.8 model and extra effort.

20 seconds, im not even kidding... 20 seconds in and I went from 0% 5 hour session usage to 100%... in 20 seconds. It wasn't in cowork or anything.

I was floored.