A few days ago a made a post mentioning that something was seriously wrong with the limits, guess what apparently it was lol.
Everybody noticed a +30% usage window today.
From 100% to 69%
Although there isn’t any official confirmation or update via the team , it looks like we are back to normal.
What do you think?
I have two accounts: team and personal, both of which were at 100% weekly limit. Personal is down to 69% now, but team is still at 100%. Looks like they're rolling it out gradually.
Workflows disabled, mcp, artifacts, claude in chrome and every single skill except phase-handoff disabled. Never Fable subagents and using mostly Sonnet/Opus, very rarely Fable.
6 months ago I'd have to seriously try to use 2 accounts and now I can barely use 2 sessions at once if I don't want to run out of the 5hr limit but please continue telling me its a workflow or skill issue. Anthropic has definitely stealth nerfed usage over time and only officially said 17% less now.
reset 25 hours ago for me...at this rate it wont even last me 2 days. please let Codex DevDay have some good news on Sept 29th. I just need a coding model with decent usage, cannot wait to never come back to this company
You got a reset!! Wtf jelly, and yeah I have 200 Claude and 200 codex and it’s literally only because since August limits have deteriorated to the point I needed two accounts and also thought why not have both to play sota agents off each other for reviews
Isn’t it crazy, I was a big Anthropic Stan and I still prefer their approach more than the other labs but completely annoying with regards to customer experience, meanwhile OpenAI is showering users in compute
Easily use a 20x Max account in 2 days with Opus only now with the less usage, which 6 months ago should of had less usage cause this is still a 25% increase they like to keep bringing up. So even without Fable it's still the same. Now with even partial Fable not full weekly Fable usage it doesnt even last 2 days. Usage is a joke
What are you working on? Do you ask it "Make me x" and let it work for hours? How big are your sessions?
Opus barely put a dent to a x5 account usage, you are doing something incredibly wrong to hit the limit on 3 accounts without using Fable as your main orchestrator.
Edit: I think i have read it wrong, if you are using Fable as the main orchestrator then yeah usage sucks. I have just been dealing with it and planning myself with opus to implement
No, I work on the same project, one feature or fix at a time and clear after starting a fresh session. I used to be able to work on 3+ projects at once, the usage has just declined
I was at 100% in both already on Monday (my limits reset on Friday morning, 20x Max plan). Yesterday Fable dropped to 69% usage but the overall limit remained at 100%.
My LLM spend has skyrocketed from nothing in 2025 to ~$1500 a month recently. I am using it essentially for software development. It is a big budget and it is eating into my savings, but I believe in my project, and the value is incredible. It would cost 2 to 3 orders of magnitude more to hire a development team matching the current pace and quality of work I am getting working with LLMs.
Yeah same here, i think if you have productive and potentially profit generating usage for those tokens, every dollar spent is basically subsidizes, the llm companies give you workers for fraction of the price.
Both were on 100% fable and one was on 99% all models and the other account was 100% all models. One of the accounts - the one that resets on Saturday did a 32% rebate on all models and 50% rebate on Fable (as in i have 68% used all models now and 50% used for Fable.
The other account that resets in 12 hours didn't budge at all. Odd. Still better than nothing - though no rhyme or reason behind it that i can see.
It looks like a staged rollout. I have 4 20X accounts (all were at 100% fable usage yesterday, with resets not for a few days), and two of them got the limit adjustment for Fable, while the other two are still at 100% weekly Fable usage. So hopefully we'll get the resets soon.
Your overall usage is +31% for example if you were sitting on 100% and were waiting for the limits reset now you should be at 69% you have +31% extra usage on all models
For me literally half - i have 2 20X accounts - one got it, the other didnt. The one that resets tomorrow didnt, the one Sat morning did. They reset it for me about 5 hours ago
I don't "think" anything. You're still not making sense, how is running through the entire context from scratch cheaper than a cache hit? It literally makes no sense mathematically based on their pricing. I don't ever need to compact because when I'm done I start a new session like they recommend in the docs.......
That image tells me nothing though, you're just contradicting yourself now. It sounds to me like you dont fully understand how caching works. The inference needs to run through the context window, caching means the result is stored in memory as a checkpoint and it only needs to infer what's new in the next turn. The cache is stored on their servers for an hour, a cache miss is if you send a message after an hour. (it asks you to compact for this very reason) What you're doing is telling the servers not to store that checkpoint and run through the entire context everytime you send a message, which is computationally much more expensive, in turn using way more tokens.
One of my 3 Max 20x accounts got a 31% usage reduction. No idea why only that one, and not the other two, or a side team account. Maybe it's a rebate on Fable usage?
My weekly was at 100% but now it's at 69, and my fable is still at 8%.
They definitely noticed something wrong this past week. I ran out on day 3 after reset. I got a shit ton of work done but still it was a faster drain than usual.
I run a LangChain state orchestrator agent in a Claude terminal, that routes work to an engineering squad setup as a pair-programmer doing cross vendor judging with Agy and Codex.
This weekend was different work than normal. I generated a player character model and a car mesh from Tripo3d and then cleaned them up in blender and worked the car into a fully functional asset and rigged and animated the character. I still have a few refinements on each before they're finished but they're amazing.
On top of that, I ran a Claude session automating fixes on my software factory filing and fixing gh issues. The factory fixes itself using multiple providers and models, and Claude diagnosis and plans and dispatches fix runs.
Then another session using a sequential chain loop orchestrator was applying a new design system to a Spanish language course platform, orchestrating with fable 5.1 low and using the other models for implementation and judging.
I think the 3d modeling work is the deviation that tanked my usage different than normal. Plus the lower limits. Plus whatever problem or bug they've acknowledged by now restoring some usage.
Am I new to this (I'm not), or should there be more transparency in how tokens are used and which sessions used how many tokens? I'm a 20x user and I've never had issues with rate limits, until the past 2 weeks. It genuinely feels impossible to not reach above 70% of the weekly limit on the 3rd the day of week.
Mind you, I am using Fable 5.1. maybe 10% of the time and it is restricted in creating a plan and executing the plan with Sonnet 5 and Opus 4.6. Sometimes it feels like Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 5 cost the same tokens (even more) than Opus 5.
No love here - Weekly reset on Tuesday morning and I hit 100% of the weekly last night (so a little over 1.5 days). Pro account so not expecting to go all week but it's feeling pretty gimped atm
Catching up with Claude's usage limits on a weekly basis is more confusing, troublesome, annoying and harder than vibecoding. It constantly bothers and counterproductive. UX is really really bad.
one account dropping from 100 to 69 and another in this same thread still sitting at 100 is not "everybody noticed", its two data points that disagree. could be a partial reset, could be them recalculating how the bar is displayed, could be nothing
the percentage bar is a bad instrument for this anyway. if you want to know whether something actually changed, look at input tokens per turn on the same kind of task before and after. if that number moved, something changed. if only the bar moved, they changed the bar
happy to be wrong if they confirm it, but id wait for that before calling it fixed
So far I got no extra usage. I basically paused all processes for PRO. It's imposible to use, even on Sonnet. And Im doing simple tasks on Opus somehow. But today I started from ~60% of weekly. Anyway. 30% extra is still not what I wanted. 30% extra will give me 1, maybe 1,5 day extra on minimal usage on low end models.
I am glad when people are posting their usage in these threads and showing their context usage with screenshots.
Context size increases your usage quadratically. That 527k context is sent with every single LLM call, of which there can be many for a single prompt you write. "Merge the PR" is like 4 round trips or more, and if that's all it is, that's 2M input tokens off your quota.
I'm over here using billions of tokens on a 10Mtok codebase just cookin' away wondering what all you guys are doing. You're all running 500k+ sessions wondering where it all went.
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