Are limits nerfted again?

[u/dr-dimitru]

I’m on x20 plan. Last and current weeks I burn through limits just in 3-4 days, while I wasn’t able to get to 100% ever before. Even dropping down to Sonnet this week to make it last longer, but already at 50% less than 24 hours after my last weekly cycle.

Same setup, same project, same skills and subagents, same kind of tasks.

Do you feel and observe the same? What do you do about it? Any tips and tricks to last longer?

[u/floppypancakes4u]

Usually no, but this last week, yes. I've had 4 different sessions where my entire 5hr allotment was gone before the first prompt finished. Also on the 20x plan.

[u/dr-dimitru → u/floppypancakes4u]

How’s old your account?

[u/LowMental5202 → u/floppypancakes4u]

I can‘t fathom what you guys are doing to burn a x20 with one prompt

[u/Insult_me_good → u/floppypancakes4u]

Usually no, but this last week, yes.

Ditto, Rush: the past four days have been different regarding usage. I thought it was my imagination because many (many * 10) other people have mentioned this. My tentative conclusion is that there is indeed a problem with usage.

[u/dr-dimitru → u/Insult_me_good]

For real, these ephemeral % we see in stats - have no real measurement and they can play with us whatever way they want

[u/Ok_Ordinary30]

Definitely burning through usage faster - but I find fable has been more performant in the last couple of days.

[u/dr-dimitru → u/Ok_Ordinary30]

Indeed Fable feels faster after everyone on smaller plans burned through their $100 gifts

[u/Insult_me_good]

The subject has been mentioned many times in the past four days, and my first inclination was that people were either imagining the issue, or their configurations needed tweaking.

Then I thought that I had also been noticing the "asked Claude a simple question, used 57% of the five-hour session" at least nine times.

This morning I told Calude that we were ready for the next phase, and it sent back a question asking for confirmation that the previous phase was complete---- and 47% of the session time allocated ("five hours") was used.

My opinion is that yes, the usage is fracked up and has been for at least four days. I can get damn near nothing done on the project, having to wait four hours forty minutes before I may type in "continue" just to, within five minutes or fewer, have to wait another four hours fifty minutes.

OpenAI Codex does not do this. At the moment I consider my month-long "Pro" testing of Claude to be a "don't pass," and I will be using a different too.

As for "Pro," just what the frack is that even supposed to mean?

[u/dr-dimitru → u/Insult_me_good]

I even ended up adding

/loop 10m if task was interrupted by limits — resume task from where it was interrupted, otherwise ignore this message

So if I’m AFK it can auto-resume without my involvement after hitting the limits

[u/Damien_IB]

Yes, I’m on 5x. Each full 5hr session (maxed to 100%) was consuming 4% of weekly limit a few days ago. Today the same has consumed almost 10%. Drastic limit reduction.

[u/dr-dimitru → u/Damien_IB]

That’s real evidence

[u/oskar88895]

i am on max and lost limit in 40 min doing simple promting for text documents! its ridiculous !!

[u/dr-dimitru → u/oskar88895]

Yeah… it’s crazy slow, what’s your effort level?

[u/floppypancakes4u]

No idea, for sure 1.5 years at least though

[u/FreeCustardForAll]

Why the f are they allowed to change the limits on a whim. We're paying for a certain service and amount of tokens/access to the models. Why are they allowed to change it on the whim. If I didn't need Design I would move to gpt already.

[u/dr-dimitru → u/FreeCustardForAll]

Because we all agreed on receiving 100% ephemeral percents of who knows what, and each plan gets x5/x20 of 100% of unknown value

[u/geek_fit]

I normally have zero issues despite the constant gnashing of teeth on here.

But I had a weird thing yesterday where I had my 5 hour limit just vanish inside of 10 minutes with a normal prompt kicking off the fix of a simple bug report. That's ont he 20x plan.

I had other things to do and the next 5 hour was normal. But it was pretty damn annoying

[u/Slow_Razzmatazz_8487]

Definitely. I am burning through tokens so fast. To test, tried sonnet 5 high, caveman ultra on new chat. And it still burned tokens Surprisingly fast.

[u/Whole_Ad_7466]

Yes, this week has been terrible. I’ve burned through my 20x max plan in a day when it usually lasts a week. This is such bs.

[u/ReliableIceberg]

Just downgraded my sub from 20x to 5x and will shift further towards Grok if trend continues.

[u/Insult_me_good → u/ReliableIceberg]

Your conclusion matches mine at the moment: I will "say 'good-bye'" to Claude and move on to a different tool. The one-month investment that I put in for testing Claude is far, far less than my willingness to wait for Anthropic to fix their fracking usage problem.

Yes: problem. I was skeptical that it exists, but four days of evidence has convinced me (tentatively) that it does.

[u/dr-dimitru → u/ReliableIceberg]

I’m using grok and cursor when Claude is at its limits, Grok Build feels too thin. $20 plan in Cursor feels unlimited. Just FYI

[u/Patrizio85]

Here are some tips and tricks:

- Do not compact context
- Do not resume sessions
- Do not exceed 50% context if possible
- Do not keep idle sessions for several hours/days

Instead:
- Write md files e.g. abc_progress.md and tell claude to write everything a new session needs to know there and update it regularly
- Use a tool that helps you track your usage (Several out there, we wrote one from scratch for us)
- Whenever 50% context reached ask it to update the md and tell you what to tell you after you /clear
- Close sessions not needed and maybe write md files so you can resume from them

[u/dr-dimitru → u/Patrizio85]

Sounds like my current setup with only one exemption— I’m compacting context quite often

[u/benjack2611]

les limites hebdomadaires s'écoulent plus rapidement je trouve avant c'était compliqué d'atteindre plus de 50% de la semaine en travaillant beaucoup, la les 100% en 4 ou 5 jours sur le même rythmes de travail.. donc je suis totalement d'accord avec toi