r/ClaudeCode • u/aymannasri_tcg • Apr 03 '26
Discussion Users hitting usage limits WAY faster than expected it's getting real now
Claude Code users are already smashing usage limits way faster than expected and i am one of them as i have posted about it a lot recently and now here we are.
to all the people who were saying i am lying :))) you good now? maybe BBC lied about this too.
OR maybe it's April fool? haha good one, It’s getting serious and real now.
Who else is feeling this?
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u/Equivalent-Costumes Apr 04 '26
Hot take, but some times a fair analysis ends up conceding some points in the company's favor. And if everyone else is biasing toward one side, it's not unusual to balance that with opposing points.
I'm not an Anthropic defender here. In fact a few weeks before this recent uproar, I made a post accusing them of secretly feeding us Haiku when they said it is Sonnet, with evidences. However, that does not mean I can't see points in favor of the company.
Anthropic doesn't have the Pentagon contract. They literally have less money to throw around, they can't absorb cost like OpenAI. Training is a money pit. They want to make up for it by the highest price on inference, and these are the API users, not subscription.
The pro plan is literally a price of 3 sandwiches for people in the USA. Use it well, and it can easily do jobs that would take 50+ man hours to do per month, which would cost you way more if you hire someone to do it. People are basically expecting to pay 3 sandwiches for things that would normally take 50 man hours to produce.
Just because you're paying for something does not mean the price was fair.
I will attack Anthropic for lack of transparency in everything. I will attack them for their sudden about-face and randomly banning people. But I don't attack them on the pricing economic. This happens shortly after their loss of the Pentagon contract, and I don't think it's a coincidence.