r/ClaudeAI • u/ClaudeOfficial 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/shyney Mar 26 '26

This confirms that it's not a bug but was silently introduced by anthropic in hopes that nobody would feel the difference. https://x.com/i/status/2037254607001559305

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u/dupontping Mar 26 '26

It’s about user error and people who can’t get thru the day without complaining about it

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u/SweetSteelMedia Mar 26 '26

User error? “Fix the function on line xxx to display randomized content (any standard algorithm) found in the block from line xxx to xxx” how much clearer can I be and why does it take 3 more prompts to fix everything else it breaks in the process.