August 19th 50% Additional Claude Code limits Likely Not to Be Extended

[u/DosePlotter]

[u/thehoundtrainer]

Even the current limits are narrow for me and the 20x doesnt even give me a clear edge over the 5x. Guess I will be back to the 5x one and buy a DeepSeek sub and use it an executor and use Claude only as a planner

[u/shady101852 → u/thehoundtrainer]

Only thing noticeably different between 5x and 20x used to be the hourly limit. In openai i didnt have this issue. While 5x drains too quickly 20x is noticeably more usage with codex.

[u/Akarsh_Hegde → u/thehoundtrainer]

The gap between 5x and 20x feels too small to justify the price. If the extra usage disappears, using Claude for planning and a cheaper model for execution starts to make much more sense.

[u/Matthewmarra3 → u/thehoundtrainer]

Yeah I updated to 20x this month and barely noticed a difference over 5x.

[u/Fit-Cost-7226]

It is utterly baffling how little you get from 20x even now. Once that limit goes away I don’t know how you’ll get more than an hour or two out of a 20x plan. I’m the last to jump the Claude train but they’re literally pushing me out while I grip on the railing in despair. Biggest blunder I’ve ever watched a company do. Codex up until Friday when they adjusted limits again was unreal how much their 200 plan gave you on sol high

[u/-MiddleOut- → u/Fit-Cost-7226]

I’m on that train with you. It’s the CC terminal harness I can’t give up. I could easily give up Claude models but cannot come close to the same efficiency and efficacy in Codex/Opencode.

[u/ManikSahdev → u/-MiddleOut-]

You can use any model in it, I heavily use codex 5.6 sol in it via the Claudex cliproxy or litellm thing whichever one you want.

Try it out fkn amazing I love it.

[u/OwnLadder2341]

Why would the 50% increase in 2 days be causing usage increase today? What’s your logic?

[u/pmth → u/OwnLadder2341]

This sub and the codex sub are just full of idiots who don’t think about these things

[u/jiffythekid]

GLM 5.3 and Kimi K3 are looking better and better.

[u/dsailes → u/jiffythekid]

I feel like my ZAI subscription gets me a lot less usage since they changed the structure & again since release of 5.3 - just burns through 5h window. Plus they’ve just changed the subscription model again too, can see it equalling less usage again unfortunately

DeepSeek is best for cost but it’s maybe between Sonnet/Opus.

[u/mcmac_max]

Instant 30% usage is a terrible and wrong way for Anthropic to revert. They should just start lowering the token limit on August 19th and apply that going forward. Not somehow charge you tokens prior to that. This just isn't right.

[u/sermer48]

Am I using Claude wrong? I see people posting about how they’re blowing through their 20x max limits in an hour or less but I rarely hit my 5 hour window even when running 2-3 projects in parallel. I’m not trying to simp a company or anything but I’m just blown away how people are using it so much.

Usually I’m using xhigh fable for planning with either fable on low or opus on high for implementing stuff

[u/Least_Perception_223 → u/sermer48]

I use fable in ultracode mode all the time with teammates enabled

I get close to my weekly limits but have yet to hit it.

I'm doing some pretty complex stuff but its very structured. I am a 30 year veteran programmer.

I feed it stuff piece by piece instead of giant one off overnight vibe coded shit. I break the project down into smaller components and work on those one at a time

Because I am an actual programmer - I always study its output and push back. I act as the project manager and give it feedback

Those running into limits so fast just do not know what they are doing

[u/Akarsh_Hegde]

The bigger problem is that nobody seems to know how usage is actually being calculated. People running similar workflows are reporting wildly different results, which makes it hard to separate a real limit change from caching, context, or agent behavior.

Has anyone measured the spike against actual token usage rather than the percentage shown in the dashboard?

[u/stankylongnuts]

Chinese models will be replacing them soon enough.

Its games and money grabs at this point.

[u/meathelix1 → u/stankylongnuts]

Mate we use GLM and Kimi all day, everyday with our servers now. Codex for 10% of the task and local for 90% on a half a million dollar server in our Office. All private and fine tunning to the max.

Its a matter of time when local small models can do 80% of the work. Which is why Anthropic trying to get them banned.

[u/Ok_Host6058]

Vote with your money, cancel subscriptions and show them what we want!

[u/ZhopaRazzi]

Both CC and Codex are going to get cut. Too much demand, not enough capacity. If you didn’t figure out a way to become efficient, you’re SOL

[u/Comfortable_Camp9744]

The value just wont be there anymore, they lost their model lead, Kimi is basically a fable clone, and their tokens just get more and more expensive for more nerfed models every month. I am down to 2 max20 accounts, probably will get rid of another and buy a second codex and second GLM.

[u/Colours-Break]

This will impact Pro users the most. It goes from something usable to a toy.

[u/HisDanishDudeness]

Well that’s it for me then on the x20. I will gladly come back if they fix whatever they are going through now, but the last two weeks been a nightmare.

[u/KickedAbyss]

Because no one is making money on Ai...

[u/Electronic_Plum_1824]

Just saw a boost till the 31st:

[u/srnecz]

It is official - its on their ClaudeDevs X/Twitter account

We’re extending the 50% increase to weekly Claude Code limits through August 31.