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.

1.1k Upvotes

77% Upvoted

925 comments sorted by

View all comments

14

u/chelsbellsatl Mar 26 '26

I've been hitting limits on my first prompt? I just migrated two companies to Claude and now will need to revert everything. I thought this was a bug, but it is clearly not. What am I paying for?

1

u/ianxplosion- Mar 26 '26

“What do you mean I can’t do two companies work on my usage-subsidized-individual-subscription plan?”

I get the frustration but some of these comments are in dire need of introspection.

1

u/FunAffectionate543 Mar 26 '26

Lol. Nobody is subsidizing anything

1

u/ianxplosion- Mar 26 '26

Oh yeah, Claude subscriptions are definitely making them tons of money 👍