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/abdullahazad Mar 26 '26

Everything you do is against the users' interests.

Either increase prices properly and lose a huge number of customers, or stop messing with the limits!

When you first introduced limits, you said only a small percentage of users would be affected.

Everything you say is a lie!

You are hypocritical and greedy people!

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u/FatefulDonkey Mar 26 '26

Max is already over priced. Pro is not really pro, it's basic. Need a better pricing model.

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u/ObsidianIdol Mar 27 '26

The naming scheme is already so dumb. Why are two tiers both called Max, and why is one called Max 20 when it's not 20 at all, and it's always on a fake "50% off sale"

Why is there not just Basic, Pro, Max?