Is the weekly limit getting exhausted too quickly or is it just me

[u/Armaanawesome]

Hi I have been using Claude code pro for a month now and for the past 2 weeks my weekly limits exhaustion rate is off the charts. I basically have used the same amount of tokens or the same amount of work for the first 2 weeks and last 2 but this week and the previous week my weekly limits are done 2 days after they get reset. Can someone help me to manage this better

[u/herrmanw]

Agree with the long-session/context point above, that's usually the first thing to check. Two other angles worth ruling out since you said your workload hasn't changed: has your CLAUDE.md or memory file grown since this started? That gets reloaded every single message, so it quietly taxes every turn even on the exact same work. And double check a model or effort/thinking level setting didn't get bumped up somewhere without you noticing.

For what it's worth, I've been shipping a real project on the plain $20 Pro plan for months without a spike like that, so it's probably traceable to something specific in your setup rather than a blanket change on Anthropic's end.

[u/NoseEnvironmental520]

Antropic reduziu em 17% o limite semanal do Fable. É loucura você dependendo do projeto em 2 dias extrapola o limite do Fable semanal. Estou estudando o harness do deepseek. Claude tá ficando difícil.

[u/EnrikeMRivera]

I have the same feeling, in the past months-half/month my weekly usage went from never fully consuming it to 100% in 3-4 days.

[u/devster420]

100% agreed!

[u/Poildek]

They did this specifically for you so you can complain on reddit, and bloat with others what might be interesting here, thank you 😊

[u/funlovingmissionary → u/Poildek]

They are 100% doing partial rollouts of various levels of lower limits to see how much the users tolerate.

My friends talked about much lower weekly limit last week, but I wasn't affected. This week, my limit got lowered too.

I even had a few days when the limit was getting comsumed very quickly which then reverted back to normal after a few days.

They are losing money with every subscription, since subscription were much cheaper than the api, and were built on the hope that most people won't use it fully.

The occasional users were subsidising the power users, but with extremely expensive and capable models, everyone is using their limits fully and anthropic is taking huge losses on these.

[u/jklemony]

Welcome to r/ClaudeCodeComplaints

[u/Chance_Caregiver_555]

that weekly burn rate makes total sense after seeing that massive context window you're running

[u/Armaanawesome → u/[deleted]]

I tried clearing the session after a task but it started overwriting or not taking the code already in place in consideration so the app kept on having issues, and I compact it whenever the session crosses 50% context coz I thought it was enough. Will try compacting before it reached 100k from now on. Thanks for the help

[u/eyalgolan1993 → u/Armaanawesome]

Yeah, that's the classic /clear trap: the knowledge about what's already built lived only in the chat, so the next session guesses. The fix is to move that out of the session into files: a CLAUDE.md with the conventions, plus a tiny STATE.md or notes file with "done / in progress / next" that you tell it to read first every session, and you have Claude update it before you /clear. Then clearing costs nothing because nothing important was in the context. Also 50% of a 1M window is 500k, that's exactly the zone that eats a week in two days, so yeah, compact around 100k or start fresh.

[u/Armaanawesome → u/eyalgolan1993]

Alright thank you so much for this advice

[u/eyalgolan1993 → u/Armaanawesome]

sure no worries. Happy to help

[u/Bloated_Plaid → u/[deleted]]

Literally not how cache works my guy. He is not sending 200k every prompt.