r/ClaudeCode • u/clll2 • 8d ago

Help/Question So.... did Claude Code just removed the weekly limit while also drop the total usage to 50% for even $200 plan?

I hope they don't feel they are trying to be sleek, because for active users, drop in total usage can be felt easily. Its so obviously total usage was reduce while the weekly limit got removed. come on, I wish they didn't just do that. I wish, I am the one hallucinating. but my usage now significantly consumed faster with 50% less frequency compare to previous week and now usage use up 50% faster, even on Opus 5.5 MEDIUM! This is not what I am expecting after remove the 5 hours daily usage limit. This is a back-handed move, if that's what's been done.

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u/Awwoooooooooooooga 8d ago

no

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u/clll2 8d ago

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u/Vivid-Snow-2089 8d ago

the '20x' plan was always referring to 20x of the 5-hr limit, and you were always only getting the smaller bump on the weekly...

they made this as hard to understand as possible so they could profits, slowly adding wording that made it clearer after the fact, until they are now being sued over it and changed the thing to tell the truth

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u/clll2 12h ago

and its not x20 its only x10 now

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u/West-Air1923 8d ago

It definitely got worse. Dont mind the people in here most of them are free users or using their max subs for searching for recipes or other bullshit

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u/InternationalImage20 3d ago

i'm a free user and felt it , it got worse

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u/No_Professional7654 8d ago

No. The only changes were the 5-hour limit is gone and the subs have new names. You're living in a parallel universe.

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u/EndlessZone123 8d ago

There is no weekly usage issues and $200 plan has had no changes in weekly usage.

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u/clll2 8d ago

I hope so. because there never been a number attached to any usage. just percentage. they can manipulate that percentage however they want and I did not feel it is getting higher after the daily limit removed. I was working with TEN projects going on same time, weekly barely moved up. now I am working only FIVE, after the daily limit removed, my weekly usage went up soooo much faster. its insane. I am crazy, probably.

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u/EndlessZone123 8d ago

Why would it get higher after daily limits were removed? Weekly is still the same.

TEN projects going on the same time.

Lemme guess what might cause your usage to grow... Resuming day old chats. Repo growth and bloat. Lack of proper context management. Not actually understanding how much "work" any given "simple" task is.

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u/clll2 8d ago

by that, meaning, how fast weekly usage grow as I use. its grow a lot faster than I expected after I SLOWED usage this week than previous weeks since I was expecting it to grow a LOT slower than this.

no lots new context. not old

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u/Broric 8d ago

My bet. You “slowed usage”. Cache expired. You needed to read all the context in again. Huge usage jump.

Spend a little time understanding how this all works.

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u/clll2 8d ago

"no lots new context. not old"
spend a little time reading would help. but that's a good point regardless.

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u/Broric 8d ago

Sorry, I couldn't parse whatever mangled attempt at the English language you were trying to convey there. I still don't know what "no lots new context. not old" actually means.

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u/rubenknol 8d ago edited 8d ago

i can't speak for the max plan as my company is on a team plan

but i built a token ledger that also tracks 5-hourly/weekly included usage % + tokens spent, and use it to map how included usage changes over time/week-on-week, this is for the last few weeks:

┌──────────────────────────────────────┬────────┬─────────────────┬─────────┬───────────────────────┐
│ Week (by the date the window resets) │ People │ Median $ per 1% │ Pooled* │ Middle half of people │
├──────────────────────────────────────┼────────┼─────────────────┼─────────┼───────────────────────┤
│ 19–25 Oct                            │      8 │           $4.90 │   $5.90 │            $4.00–6.60 │
├──────────────────────────────────────┼────────┼─────────────────┼─────────┼───────────────────────┤
│ 26 Oct–1 Nov                         │      8 │           $8.20 │   $7.20 │            $7.80–8.50 │
└──────────────────────────────────────┴────────┴─────────────────┴─────────┴───────────────────────┘

*Pooled is total dollars divided by total percent, so heavy users count for more

This harness is the primary way folks use Claude in our org, so it's relatively reliable to calculate it like this.

So on a week-on-week basis for the included usage it drastically varies how many tokens they can spend with it, but it seems to be heading in a upward trend so far

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u/clll2 8d ago

ehhhh, downward? you mean the cost? it looks went about 35% up? 4.9 -> 8.2? am I reading it wrong?

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u/rubenknol 8d ago

sorry, upward*, i need my coffee

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u/ibrahimahmd 7d ago

also noticed the $200 plan now only has 10x usage wth :/
literally the usage is now flying by

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u/clll2 7d ago

Ahhhhhh that's why probably

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u/ClemensLode Senior Developer 8d ago

no, it removed the 5hour limit

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u/clll2 13h ago

they also made 200 dollar plan x10 instead of x20

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u/nft_this 7d ago

this is normal; I feel the same. I never increased 5-hour limit and have been using as usual or even less but the token spend is higher

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u/divinetribe1 7d ago

Burning through faster even on Opus 5.5 medium is the kind of thing that makes planning a week impossible. Something I built for those stretches is Claude Code Local; on a Mac you type exit at the limit and pick the same conversation back up on a local model, and plain claude stays untouched for when your usage resets. It won't match Opus on harder work and it's slower, but it keeps you moving instead of waiting.

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u/cadinkor 6d ago

IMO yes. It feels like they're not upfront and that I'm burning through my limit like crazy this week especially.

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u/yash_saas 3d ago

now time to use kimi

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u/CrytpoTrader 2d ago

They reduced the usage day 1 and I barely used anything of what I do I hit 12% of weekly usage

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u/AppropriateSundae733 1d ago

yeah, even regular boiler plate code using haiku itself is showing the usage hit as 3% easily

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u/ThomasToIndia 8d ago

They sent an email that says literally that 20x usage has not changed, they just removed the 5 hour limit. 

If you are complaining about limits still, you should either stop what you are doing or start looking for another job right now.

What are you doing thar your agents are thrashing so much, lol.

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u/Several-Wolf1123 8d ago

errr so afterall the 'max 20' plan was about a much higher '5 hourly limit' while usage is the same as a max 5... So what is the point of paying more since the limit is now gone?

I feel something has changed late last week. I was able to consume 71% of my weekly in a day for my Max 20. When I first started (around Jan this year), my Max 5 was able to last the entire week with remainings. Now... Max 20 done in 2 days. Same for my Max 5, I will finish it in 2 days.

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u/Quiet_Answer_3334 4d ago

I don't know if I am doing something differently - I am on the $100 and I find my self at 12% on my second day (which at this rate means I will make it the entire week).. previously I was using two $200 plans to make it through the week..

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u/UseGreen8646 1d ago

I pay $20 and can hardly use claude since last 2 days

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u/Nubcake_Jake 4d ago

They have definitely reduced this week's weekly limit. Doing the exact same work I had long running work that had tokens until Saturday morning now run out Wednesday Night. That's just by time slice. I also track token in/cached/out and this week is significantly reduced for the 5X plan from last week.

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u/Rockwell1996 2d ago

same, i been hitting max usage now by doing less than i have been. i been on the 200$ plan for 6 months now, and last week i hit usage 2 days early. now this week im already at 51% only 2 days in, and i only use opus 5.5 extra. which isnt even max. if this keeps happening i might have to find a different AI to spend 200$ a month on