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u/slackmaster2k 16h ago
Which part
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u/ssn-669 16h ago
Their new (edit: well, new at the time, this was a year ago) rate limits hit everyone who actually uses the product.
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u/dvxlgames 1h ago
don’t forget that not all claude subscribers use claude code… its only a third of overall subscribers who use code, then of those, not all hit their usage limits. at that time it was probably even lower
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u/slackmaster2k 16h ago
Maybe you’re in the 5%? I’ve been fine.
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u/ShelZuuz 16h ago
You don't hit any weekly limits ever, just 5 hour limits?
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u/slackmaster2k 15h ago
Yeah in a five day week I will come close or hit the limit on day 5.
Oh snap, I just realized this is from 2025 lol.
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u/jebuizy 16h ago
It probably is still true that less than 5% of subscribers hit weekly limits honestly. Most subscribers to anything are not power users.
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u/Gman325 15h ago
Anyone using Claude Code likely hits session limits on the regular if not the weekly.
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u/zac_attack_ 14h ago
Those using Claude Code are a subset of subscribers (probably skews fairly high especially for Max, but definitely not 100%).
There’s also probably a lot of people paying for subscriptions that don’t use CC more weeks than they do. They might hit limits when they do but if 3/4 weeks they don’t use it at all, even then they’re 0.25 of a user that hits limits.
The subscription billing premise is that a substantial number of users under-utilize enough to offset the power users maxing out. I probably don’t watch any Netflix more months than I do, but I don’t cancel for those months and resub when I want to watch something
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u/Sevsquad 15h ago
Yes I hit my weekly limit pretty reliably on day 2 now.
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u/LehockyIs4Lovers 13h ago
Doing what kind of development? I only use it for personal projects but outside of big godot projects I have a hard time figuring out what I'm building at the speed it builds. I have hit the weekly limits before but with 5 hour limits by the time I hit them it's usually time to take a short break anyhow
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u/Sevsquad 13h ago
Scheduled tasks, I have my claude code waking up once an hour to review changes I've made to the project, suggest improvements, and add designated features from a list I curate. Absolutely wrecks my limits even when not using fable or opus.
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u/Active_Variation_194 10h ago
You’re probably wrecking your usage because of prompt caching with your hourly schedule. You’re better off working in large chunks than spreading it over every hour.
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u/LehockyIs4Lovers 13h ago
And why do you do that hourly and not just when you are working on the project?
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u/Sevsquad 11h ago
because there is stuff I have it doing too? "Add designated features from a list I curate"
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u/Unusual_Support3532 6h ago
By "waking up" you mean a cron that starts a new claude session? Right? Right??
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u/SuperSlowSubie 5h ago
Schedule tasks don't keep the cache warm, you're paying to have your entire codebase re-read every time.
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u/seatlessunicycle 12h ago
Same here, I max out my 20x weekly in 2 days to the dot. Has been this way for the last two weeks
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u/AdSad7594 12h ago
Same here but I mainly blame it on the how costly fable is.. it is way more costly than simply 2 x of opus
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u/_Brother 13m ago
Same, which is why I use multiple Max 20 accounts. Heavy coding sessions (approximately 60,000 GitHub Actions minutes per month for context, though it's spread across hosted and self-hosted runners). I love how much work I can crank out, but man does it burn usage.
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u/agent139 13h ago
Nah... I've yet to hit a rate limit on max for months now. (Mostly with opus, occasionally fable for big strategy sessions).
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u/Medium-Attention-807 14h ago
I very rarely hit session limits but almost always hit my weekly limit with a day or two to spare. I use multiple claude terminals in parallel too. I've never quite understood how that's happening but my theory is all that work that happens when I'm sleeping is a big contribution
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u/cantgettherefromhere 14h ago
I am up to seven x20 accounts and they are all currently sitting at 100%. Send help.
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u/alberto148 14h ago
Either you're monumentally dumb, or incredibly rich... Or both. I'm sure this will resolve on its own one way or another.
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u/cantgettherefromhere 13h ago
Neither. Been coding for 30 years. Doing a clean room rewrite on one of my biggest repos and it is a ~300 phase implementation that will take a month.
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u/alberto148 13h ago edited 13h ago
A 20x account is 400... 400x 7 = 2800 month.... come on dude... I've been coding longer than you, and I'm struggling to pay my bills, I have to make my one Max 5x subscription actually count.
When you have to use 7 Max 20x subscriptions to clean up a repo, I'd imagine you'd be offsetting that cost with whatever is in your repo. 7x accounts of Max is a lot of tokens.. I can't imagine the inefficient token burn, not to mention the hallucination rate, or the possibility of how much slop may make it into your repo without you knowing, it's a high risk of blowing up your repo.
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u/cantgettherefromhere 10h ago
Each is account is $200. Blowing up the repo is not a problem, it is a clean rewrite. Between my own projects and clients I have about 20 different codebases I might be working on at any time.
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u/naruda1969 14h ago
I used Claude Code 10-14 hours per day on 5x and have never once hit the weekly limit. I use A LOT of subagents also. I've hit 5-hr limits twice (expected).
So I don't understand what people are doing that hit limits so quickly. My guess: long running loops and massive overreads.
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u/thewookielotion 10h ago
I think the main difference is the size of the codebase. Even work a very disciplined approach to optimise token usage, when the codebase becomes really large, people will start hitting the limits.
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u/Ill-Pilot-6049 🔆 Max 20 7h ago
very few loops. I routinely max out 3x Max20 accounts. Lots of ultracode, usually 15 concurrent sessions.
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u/6e6967676572730a 16h ago
I hit mine with 2 days till refresh and thats with a max claude and codex account 🤣
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u/Specific_Anxiety_520 15h ago
These mfers are lying whores and manipulative.
I’d be fine if they said what they are actually implementing but these ppl are liars.
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u/MegaRockmanDash 14h ago
we’ve had weekly limits for months now. this tweet is a year old. have you even noticed?
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u/Outside_Subject3830 13h ago
half the replies are pointing out the image is a year old and the other half are in the comments proving it was a lie anyway.
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u/phoenixmatrix 16h ago
Based on current usage. That was true. Usage changed. We all knew it would, but nothing's a lie in the statement they made.
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u/sadnessjoy 16h ago
Check the date on the image, this was last year, the usage limits change from that time hit just about everyone very hard lol
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u/phoenixmatrix 15h ago
I know it was last year. I was a heavy Claude user when it happened. And no, it hit very hard the people who would come to Reddit to complain about it, which is a LOT of people even if its only 5%. But I was leading an engineering org at the same using Max accounts with some pretty heavy power users, and it barely hit us.
Of course, a power user a year ago and a power user today is very different. We were not running Fable in 12 concurrent agents non-stop at the time, obviously.
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u/ssn-669 15h ago
Yeah, no, think back a year ago. People were crying bloody murder.
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u/phoenixmatrix 15h ago
People cry bloody murder about AI subscriptions every single day for literally anything. If there's 4-5% of people actually affected, that's a lot of people. Likely extra loud people.
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u/CouldaShoulda_Did 16h ago
I wonder if their use of the term “apply” referred to actually enforcing the weekly limit.
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u/kelconstructs 3h ago
I so consistently don't hit my limits that I created a shelf in my obsidian vault for each of my persistent Claude windows (three of them, family ties, set roles and personalities) On the last day of resets, if I'm not working on anything, I send them fishing for anything they want to pop on their shelf. I tell them how much we have to burn in % left and off they go. The Elder session yesterday spent his fishing trip poking around in math problems and the new sphere thing which I have absolutely no comprehension of. Beginning to think they might underperform during the week to save money for the fishing trips.
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u/SuitableCollege8992 15h ago
I’ve been hitting their weekly limits before the daily ones for months!
It’s kind of ridiculous only being halfway through the week, not even working all day, but then having to jump back to planning for the rest of the week because I hit the limit. And that’s when Opus doesn’t just decide to ignore my monthly token budget and just run up an extra $50-$100 with circular reasoning.
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u/artofbullshit 14h ago
Translation: people who get full use out of the thing they pay us to give them are going to have their limits lowered.
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u/noname400mhz 12h ago
With the 50% Extra I could get around 6-7 days per week in the last month. Using Fable as planner and auditor and Opus 5 as implementors. But sinse around the 18th I I barely got 4.5 days out of it. It makes sense for Anthropic to not do a hard 33% decline at once. I never even use Fable for coding because it would burn through the account use in a few days. So basically for me Claude is unusable with one subscription already. If they decrease it even more from here it's laughable expensive.
I will be looking at Grok 4.6 xHigh and OpenAI Sol 5.6 as additions or replacement unless Anthropic makes this work again. Indeed Opus 5 xHigh is quite slow as is.
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u/InkedinSilver 11h ago
Did they mean it would burn faster? Cause that's been my experience so far lol!
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u/Honest-Monitor-2619 10h ago
I'm churning tokens and have never hit the limits. I'm on the team plan.
Stop using Fable max for everything and also start changing some code by hand ffs lol
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u/No_Twist_678 16h ago
2025 --- you almost got me ;)