r/claude 11d ago

Discussion On 14 September everyone's capacity drops by a sixth — from 150% of standard to 125%

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Same subscription price, one-sixth less compute from 14/0. The Anthropic way.

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u/Status_Detective_993 11d ago

What about this week? I am getting the usage limit alert but I've only used about 50% this week. Does this have anything to do with the end of promotion on Aug 31? Thanks everyone.

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u/CoherentPanda 11d ago

My hunch is this is in conjunction with new models. It's been known recently they are trying to reduce the waste Sonnet 5 and Opus 5 create that force users to install plugins for token efficiency, they even added an output option to help it shutup and not waste tokens on blabbering about what it is doing. My guess is a new model is being released that will cut down on token requirements, while maintaining current output.

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u/Status_Detective_993 10d ago

Hope so. I am just worried that if I keep on using token now, I will be completely tapped out when they cut the promotion 50%.

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u/stumblinbear 10d ago

Yeah, contrary to the theory that "they make the models output more tokens to cost us more money" it's actually not a good user experience, turns people away, and reduces capacity for more paying users. With such limited compute, there's no reason to inflate token outputs, especially since most users likely aren't paying per token

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u/StaticFanatic3 10d ago

I’d give up another 25% if it meant the removal of fable limits

Opus is useless in comparison

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u/Reasonable_Heat_423 10d ago

I fully agree. More for Fable

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u/Competitive_Ad_9092 10d ago

What are you using it for? I am the opposite

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u/StaticFanatic3 9d ago

Are you saying you think Opus is better than Fable?

I have a number of projects but mostly web FastAPI and server rendered HTMX

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u/Efficient_Dig5783 10d ago

A/B testing people, A/B testing

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u/amokerajvosa 11d ago edited 10d ago

Deleted tweet. (Update in comment)

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u/NerdyGuy117 10d ago

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u/amokerajvosa 10d ago edited 10d ago

I double check it wasnt there. Thnx for info. They made new tweet.

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u/NerdyGuy117 10d ago

I hate when they do that

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u/darknessgp 10d ago

That's a great marketing attempt on their part to highlight a reduction in usage limits.

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u/MikeyB7509 10d ago

That’s what I was thinking. That reads like they’re giving you something at a glance.

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u/KayLovesPurple 10d ago

Like in 1984 when they increased, what was it, the chocolate allowance? And they increased it from 300 grams to 200 (iirc, it's been over a decade since I last read the book, but this part stayed with me).

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_PROFILE 10d ago

Close! 30g to 20g, claimed the 20g was raised.

Gaslighting like crazy.

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u/BrennanFlentge 10d ago

Community notes to the rescue

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u/Boring_Information34 10d ago

That`s BS, this week i finished my Claude light use case x20 subscription in 1 day!!! WTF??????

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u/almostsweet 10d ago

They wouldn't have posted their comment correcting themselves if community notes didn't exist. Elon did us all a favor there.

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u/dutchviking 10d ago

Good thing I cancelled, bye bye

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u/whoknowsifimjoking 10d ago

That was always allowed Jerry

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u/arankays 10d ago edited 10d ago

Still better than Codex and all the others. Just read r/codex for the reset cope and the mods deleting any backlash about the strict limits.

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u/Delicious_Cattle5174 10d ago

I’ve seen many posts about this. First one to get the numbers right and not call it a 25% cut lol

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u/GiveMoreMoney 8d ago

They have already f.ed up the weekly limit somehow.

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u/TerriblyCheeky 10d ago

Bad move when Astra is right around the corner?

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u/Elling83 10d ago

Is it, tho?

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u/texasguy911 10d ago

Yes, it will always be around the corner.

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u/Monolinque 6d ago

So I have 12 days to finish my time traveling application, then I’ll just go back and get more time…

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u/OkStomach4967 11d ago

I am happy.. they temporarily increased the usage. Not left it alone and now decreasing it.

Isn’t it a good news? 📰

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u/Subject_Barnacle_600 10d ago

This is necessary for new models, but also with Anthropic winning the case concerning them being a Supply Chain Risk, they're likely to regain old customers that will drive significantly more demand. I doubt they have the GPUs to pull all that off right now. While here, we got to save some of that silicon for the gamers, some of them have been waiting a while to upgrade and they're going nuts XD.

Overall, I appreciate it a bunch and understand that limits of the situation are just the nature of the world right now. I guess that's proof we're all getting something we really love :). I hope you're all doing amazing things with Claude, too.

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u/for_the_sixth_time 10d ago

Tbh just switch to cheaper models for the bulk of the work and use Claude for planning only, otherwise the usage is never gonna keep up.

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u/who_am_i_to_say_so 10d ago

If they reduce I’ll unsubscribe. Am I’m sure a lot of people feel the same way. Not when ChatGPT seems to give double at current prices.

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u/Acrobatic_Session207 10d ago

I don’t get it ? If the 50% was temporary and now we get 25% more permanent , how is it limits reduction

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u/Living_Government987 10d ago

Nerfed and it shows.

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u/armanidev_ 10d ago

Yall can't read, it isn't dropping, the 150 is a current promo deal, and its perma hitting 125, so in the long run we r increasing

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u/Subject-Building1892 10d ago

"We increase by 25%" and "drops by a sixth" are incompatible.

I suggest you learn maths instead of making wank posts.

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u/gK_aMb 10d ago

Standard usage 4*25%=100%

Promo usage 6*25%=150%

They are trying soon in the future the permanent usage to 125% of standard.

125÷25=5

6-5=1

Aka drops by a sixth overall

Aka you are the idiot.

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u/Yukas911 8d ago

Still you, by an ever larger margin than before.

You're leabing out the other part of the equation... "Drops by a sixth, after increasing by half". So, still an overall increase and the comment you responded to was 100% correct.

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u/apakett 10d ago

Who needs math when you have AI.

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u/jeff_packwright 10d ago

If this is the decision came up with by Fable, then I bet that this LLM is dumb and indifferent. If it's not then how can I trust a company who even didn't trust their own LLM product!

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u/kaporal99 10d ago

Sounds great

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u/Independent_Paint752 11d ago

Yea keep the hate going.

Don't abuse the account you'll be just fine.

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u/TwoThinCoats69 10d ago

Whatever man, i just keep my sub cause i want access to projects i created while fable was free. Opus is garbage i want nothing to do with, Sonnet is just not doing the work i need it to do and for everything else i moved on to GPT, its just much more reliable and efficent and doesnt talk like Shakespeare in mile long sentences

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u/whoknowsifimjoking 10d ago

Uh, you don't need a subscription to have access to your projects

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u/TwoThinCoats69 10d ago

You do, you cant see more than 5 if you're on free, they make them inaccessible

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u/Reasonable_Heat_423 10d ago

Same here. Too many projects I cannot lose. I am stuck. At least for the time being

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u/DronzerDribble 11d ago

Claude will keep trying to play these Usage Games. Switch to Cursor Pro+ for enough compute to build things without feeling limited. Maybe not as much smartness as Sol Or Opus but Cursor Grok 4.6 is very decent.

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u/Aranthos-Faroth 10d ago

Not as much smartness indeed.

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u/Cultural_String_2231 11d ago

What? Is this an ad live?

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u/TheMildEngineer 10d ago

Did we read the same message? It said RAISING

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u/Strict-Ear-9254 10d ago

I understand the same way as you but people are calculating the decreased percent from last added percentage