Anthropic Tightens Usage Limits For Claude Code – Without Telling Users

Since Monday morning, Claude Code users person been deed pinch unexpectedly restrictive usage limits. The problems, galore of which person been aired connected Claude Code’s GitHub page, look to beryllium concentrated among dense users of nan service, galore of whom are connected nan $200-a-month Max plan. 

Users are only told “Claude usage limit reached,” and fixed a clip (typically wrong a matter of hours) erstwhile nan limit will reset. But pinch nary definitive announcement of a alteration successful limits, galore users person concluded that their subscription has been downgraded aliases that their usage is being inaccurately tracked. 

“Your search of usage limits has changed and is nary longer accurate,” one personification complained. “There is nary measurement successful nan 30 minutes of a fewer requests I person deed nan 900 messages.”

When reached for comment, an Anthropic typical confirmed nan issues but declined to elaborate further. “We’re alert that immoderate Claude Code users are experiencing slower consequence times,” nan typical said, “and we’re moving to resoluteness these issues.”

The alteration has been alarming for users, who received nary beforehand announcement of nan changes and nary guidance connected what to expect going forward. One user, who asked not to beryllium identified, said it has been intolerable to beforehand his task since nan usage limits came into effect. “It conscionable stopped nan expertise to make progress,” nan personification told TechCrunch. “I tried Gemini and Kimi, but there’s really thing other that’s competitory pinch nan capacity group of Claude Code correct now.”

These problems person emerged alongside broader issues wrong Anthropic’s network. Many API users reported overload errors during nan aforesaid period, and the company’s position page shows six abstracted issues during nan past 4 days. Notably, nan web still shows 100 percent uptime for nan week.

While loading errors are commonplace, Anthropic’s caller attack to usage limits has caused important disorder among users, galore of whom were unaware they were taxable to usage limits. Part of nan disorder comes from Anthropic’s pricing system, which sets gradual limits without ever guaranteeing a group level of access. The astir costly Max plan, priced astatine $200 a month, promises usage limits 20 times higher than a Pro subscription. The Pro plan, successful turn, offers limits five times higher than nan free plan. But Anthropic says nan free personification limit “will alteration by demand” and does not group an absolute value. The consequence leaves users incapable to scheme astir usage limits, since they person nary clear thought of erstwhile their work will beryllium restricted.

The $200 Max scheme has been peculiarly celebrated among dense users of nan service, pinch immoderate viewing nan scheme arsenic unsustainable for Anthropic successful nan agelong term. The personification we said to said nan scheme often allows him to make complete $1000 worthy of calls (measured successful API pricing) successful a azygous day. As a result, he wasn’t amazed usage limits were becoming much restrictive — but hoped nan institution would pass nan changes much clearly.

“Just beryllium transparent,” he said. “The deficiency of connection conscionable causes group to suffer assurance successful them.”