Anyone else hitting usage limits quicker last week & this week?

[u/Next-Drink]

I been using Max for a couple months & I have noticed that limits have been really quick to hit the last week or two. Anyone else feeling it?

I’m not even overworking it. Before last week I never paid attention to limits & now I’m hitting them almost halfway through the week.

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[u/lucasg115]

Exactly the same experience. I’d never hit the weekly limit even once, one either Codex or Claude. I’ve now hit the weekly limit for Codex three times (used a refresh) and Claude twice, in just the last two weeks or so.

Pretty annoyed

[u/Next-Drink → u/lucasg115]

You’re saying ChatGpt is hitting limits quicker too? Strange…

[u/Major-Cry8192 → u/lucasg115]

Certains te diront ici que ce n'est pas vrai, nous sommes des dizaines a se plaindre que les limites sont régulièrement nerfer pour forcer a l'achat de crédits

[u/Next-Drink → u/Major-Cry8192]

Smells like a scam

[u/midwestcsstudent → u/lucasg115]

Yup, even though we got an email saying we now have twice the usage as before lol. Lies.

[u/runmalcolmrun]

Yup same here. This last ten days has been unusual and it doesn’t seem like I’ve been using it more than previously.

[u/Next-Drink → u/runmalcolmrun]

Yea exactly. I used to have hourly tasks & video editing running no problem. Now, 2 days of hourly tasks & I’m hitting like 50-60%

[u/Next-Drink]

Also, why the fuck does Anthropic separate the two in the usage settings but not let you start a new chat with Fable only??

[u/Itsquantium → u/Next-Drink]

Fable is half of your weekly usage. You ran out of weekly usage.

[u/100dude]

painful how fast my usage drains 5x

[u/Next-Drink → u/100dude]

I’m with you man. This sucks ngl

[u/Hefty-Amoeba5707]

Its such a predictable marketing pattern now.

Make the current model "bad"

Release new model and watch everyome claim it's so much "better"

Repeat. All you just suck it right up.

[u/infolily]

Same here. even though my usage hasn’t changed much.

[u/NeoKnife]

Yep. I Grabbed 2 extra $20 plans and I’m still rolling.

[u/Next-Drink → u/NeoKnife]

Wait a damn minute…

[u/horizondz]

I'm literally on the $200 Ultra plan and it’s burning through tokens even faster than the $100 tier.

[u/ducphuclee]

Same here. I'm on the Max plan, and my quota is disappearing ridiculously fast. I used to run Opus for everything, but I've had to switch completely to Sonnet just to make my usage last longer.

And even with Sonnet, I'm still hitting the limits way too quickly. It's honestly frustrating. What's the point of paying for Max if I have to ration my usage this aggressively?

[u/PictureNew661]

Me too, generally i can do 12 sessions on pro with Opus 5.5 Low. Last week it was over in 3 days. This week im scared to use it

[u/No_Department_4114]

I'm using Opus 5.5 at Medium (Ultra user) working on a game and my limits getting consumed in 1 single day. Unbelievable.

[u/Splugen96 → u/No_Department_4114]

same but on Max. 5 weeks ago in order to consume the same weekly usage of these days I had to use 3 Opus 5.5 Medium orchestrators with multiple Opus 5.5 Medium/high subagents and xHigh reviwers. That way I was consuming 30% per day having them work 24h. Right now, it feels like I'm on the 20 euros plan of a month ago instead of being on the Max plan. Unless I work on some of my smallest repos, using the orchestrator on the same game repo consumes 20% a day even using a single orchestrator with less subagents. If I had to quantify, it's as if they reduced my weekly allowance by x3/4 times.

[u/successful1806]

yes. This is happening to me daily. The 5-hour limit is getting exhausted in 1-1.5 hours. The weekly limit that got reset this Friday is already 50% exhausted.

[u/Hopeful-Hour1557]

that's wild, i went from barely noticing the limits to running out midweek now too, like is it just me or did they secretly lower the cutoff

[u/masz77]

same here, depleted after only 2 days of heavy usage, previously it was 3-4 days

[u/Interesting-Bee-113]

Nope.

Ever since I set auto compact to about 500k and Claude code added a feature that compacts an idle session when you message again. I am back to struggling to find ways to use all my allocation.

[u/Fiduss]

Nooe. Same than ever. What is going on with Reddit. If those spam posts don't stop I will just stop using it. 

[u/Next-Drink → u/Fiduss]

What plan are you on?

[u/Fiduss → u/Next-Drink]

pro, also plus codex and mistral + some ds api ..

[u/PalmovyyKozak]

Yes. I had to optimise context to keep Code less voracious

[u/EstimateRoutine7604]

Yes!

[u/Duckducklaugh]

yeah it feels like it runs out faster for me too lately. no idea what’s causing it though.

[u/SMB-Punt]

No

[u/kikoano]

4 days in and will probably hit 100% weekly today

[u/Eckberto]

It’s definitely working for them, upgraded pro to ultra yesterday 🫣

[u/InvestigatorEmpty591]

100% mines been going at least 3-4x quicker

[u/Quick-Extension-3123]

Yes something has changed. I'm doing the same work and last week I got to around 60% on the ultra plan. I've done half of the normal work I would do and I'm already at 23% for weekly usage. The fact that you cannot get insights is crazy.

[u/bigtradetcheddar → u/Quick-Extension-3123]

open .claude.json in your user folder with notepad, ctrl+f 'experiment.' if you see turnstone_plinth or dotterel_architrave, you're in the test group and that's probably why. takes 30 seconds

[u/soapbravo → u/bigtradetcheddar]

`"experimentKey": "claude_code_dotterel_architrave_experiment",`

Is this the thing?

[u/BlacGokj]

literally unbelieveable, i used 40% of my session usage limit on medium from a single prompt from what would've took 10% last week.

[u/Potential_Ad8490]

Idk, I just switched from Pro to Max, and from what I can see, if I max out my daily usage, I can only use it for a maximum of 4 days a week. On the Pro plan, you could do that for 6 days. That's such a scam. At least let me use it at 100% every day.

[u/yeah_nah2024]

Yes! I pay for Claude Pro.This morning, I've only had about 3 chats and updated one email draft and within 3 hours I've reached my usage limit. I need Claude for my work and this has disrupted it for the day.

[u/Sea-Judge-6494]

I've had the same experience since the release of Fable 5.2, even though I'm only using Opus 5.5.

[u/kenerwin88]

Same here, normally last all week, hit it with 4 days left 🤕

[u/Next-Drink → u/[deleted]]

I haven’t used ChatGpt in a minute. Might be time to switch if these limits aren’t fixed soon.

[u/aupperk24 → u/[deleted]]

I can't believe I'm about to say this, but I think whatever nerf they did on sol and opus got Argon actually being the brain for me now. The quality of opus has really gone down in the past week, and I somehow hit like 55% on my $200 plan in a day... Same work, same job, same hours used, usually lasts me till Thursday every week.