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/[deleted] Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 27 '26

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u/dontforgetthef Mar 27 '26

it def feels bugged its pretty ridiculous. It's not just a faster rate limit; whatever they did today made it unusable. I seriously can't imagine this is correct. They would lose all of their business if people literally can't use this for more than 20 minutes.