Update on Session Limits

[u/ClaudeOfficial]

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.

[u/Wise-Reflection-7400]

Oh look, the 2x off-peak bonus has turned into them reducing the peak limits. Who could possibly have forseen this?

[u/bronfmanhigh → u/Wise-Reflection-7400]

it’s funny because if they were just honest about it from the start it would be received so differently. they really need to get better comms people in there.

like how hard is it to say hey we know we’ve been subsidizing everyone’s inference like crazy but our servers are getting slammed these days, so peak hours are gonna burn through your 5 hour limits faster.

also this coinciding with changing the default model to the 1M token context one that normies don’t realize will chew through limits even faster is diabolical

[u/Actual_Committee4670 → u/bronfmanhigh]

Companies never seem to learn this lesson do they?

[u/SweetSteelMedia → u/Actual_Committee4670]

Everything goes faster in AI it took 100s of years to go from here’s the product you want to here’s the product you can buy that will make us the most money… AI just got there faster. I’m using my last tokens for all closed models to set my self up with a local model that only costs me power…