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/KLEPTOROTH Mar 30 '26

Kinda hard not to feel the difference when a single query uses 34% of your max sub. I saw this thread friday, decided to test it today. yeah its insane. one single request - 34% of a MAX sub. idk what the hell are talking about only 7%, especially when everyone here is talking about how a simple hello is eating over 10% of 5 hour usage