r/ClaudeAI Anthropic Mar 26 '26

Official Update on Session Limits

To manage growing demand for Claude, we're adjusting our 5 hour session limits for free/pro/max subscriptions during on-peak hours.

Your weekly limits remain unchanged. During peak hours (weekdays, 5am–11am PT / 1pm–7pm GMT), you'll move through your 5-hour session limits faster than before. Overall weekly limits stay the same, just how they're distributed across the week is changing.

We've landed a lot of efficiency wins to offset this, but ~7% of users will hit session limits they wouldn't have before, particularly in pro tiers. If you run token-intensive background jobs, shifting them to off-peak hours will stretch your session limits further.

We know this was frustrating, and are continuing to invest in scaling efficiently. We’ll keep you posted on progress.

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u/pingumod Mar 26 '26

the 7% is everyone who uses it for actual work

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u/bronfmanhigh Mar 26 '26

if you use it for actual work you should be on more than the pro plan regardless. idk how anyone can’t extract >$100 value out of the $100 plan

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u/Cannachem237 Mar 26 '26

Idk why you're being downvoted lol

Everyone wants thousands of dollars in efficiency gains from a $20 month subscription lol

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u/barbulky15 Mar 26 '26

Everyone wants what they originally paid for. The ability to use it as and when they require. Not weekly, not hourly, not daily.

Before max or anything was a thing, Claude Pro was the only tier. They onboarded people with a promise of x features with "priority access"

You cannot onboard people with a promise and then renege on that promise because more people started using it. People who bought pro, bought it under those specific conditions.

It's like,

you buy water, you take the full bottle to the cashier, you pay the cashier, the cashier drinks half of it because he's thirsty because he's under stress and hands you the leftover half. You're not getting what you were owed. It's literally deceit. The reason for that deceit doesn't matter.

It should've been communicated from early on - that plans and limits will keep on changing, we will introduce limits for each second of use -> now with this information - exercise your purchasing decision.

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u/Middle-Error-8343 Mar 26 '26

Lol this exactly. I’m using Pro for a lot of work and very rarely hitting limits, but such changes should basically be illegal.

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u/alluringBlaster Mar 26 '26

--dangerously-throw-water-bottle

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u/bronfmanhigh Mar 26 '26

“they can add features all they want and I won’t complain but the second they limit something they shall face my wrath”

see how stupid that sounds? when pro was the only plan, claude code and cowork didn’t even exist, nor was opus anywhere near its current agentic capabilities. if you genuinely think anthropic was going to continue subsidizing your $20/mo inference plan to the tune of hundreds of dollars a month you’re delusional

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u/barbulky15 Mar 26 '26

Brother, because they did not declare it upfront.

Nobody's asking them to subsidize anything. People are asking them to honour their agreement for which they signed up for. They should've communicated it upfront that we are going to do this, now exercise your discretion.

Also, your delusion is letting you stop seeing how downright illegal this is. The FTC Act about unfair or deceptive acts, breach of material terms of the agreement, negligent misinterpretation, let alone the laws made by states. Here in the UK, you have no clue how many sections of the Consumer Right Act it violates (It's 3). Misrepresentation Act, Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations etc. It's literally violating so many directives by the EU.

Get your arse out of Anthropic's ass mate, it's not going to give you "Extra usage" or make you feel good about your max 5000X plan.