Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by tyre » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 5:02 PM UTC

Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion
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Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by Bluestein » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 5:26 PM UTC

This might explain the outtages today, as folks race, misguidedly or not.-

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by wilg » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 5:43 PM UTC

Claude Opus and Fable are so bad compared to GPT-5.6-Sol it's ridiculous, their desktop client is worse, and the value is worse because OpenAI has been spamming discounts. They better get their shit together at Anthropic!

Edit: If you're mad I'm light on the details I have provided some in the replies.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by Alephinitesimal » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 5:44 PM UTC

I saw this announcement when it came out and completely forgot about it. That explains why Claude Code felt so surprisingly generous these past few months.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by bdcravens » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 5:47 PM UTC

The promotion is ending; the limits are reverting to pre-promotion levels.

"From May 13, 2026 through August 19, 2026, your weekly usage limit in Claude Code is 50% higher."

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by nostrebored » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 5:49 PM UTC

prediction: extension of promotions because of the progressive move to codex.

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by jdoe1337halo » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 5:49 PM UTC

Anthropic seems cooked right now in terms of compute

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by johnwheeler » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 5:50 PM UTC

wilg wrote: post #3

Claude Opus and Fable are so bad compared to GPT-5.6-Sol it's ridiculous, their desktop client is worse, and the value is worse because OpenAI has been spamming discounts. They better get their shit together at Anthropic! Edit: If you're mad I'm light on the details I have provided some in the replies.

I don't know why this comment's getting down voted. It's absolutely true. I would also add that Anthropic seems to limit, compute, the more you use it because I'm on the Max subscription, and it just stops working for me.

I'll ask it to do something and it'll say, I tried, but I couldn't do it over and over again or some variation of.

But it doesn't do that at the start of my subscription, so...

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by swader999 » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 5:51 PM UTC

Looking like this will be the last month with Anthropic. Between the outages and just overall crap utility of Opus/Fable lately...

Re: Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Post by bellowsgulch » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 5:52 PM UTC

I have no idea why anyone would spend the money Anthropic asks for Claude models these days. There was a brief window in time when it was worth the money to use them a bit through GitHub Copilot, but there's no way in hell I'm spending that for Claude Sonnet when DeepSeek is basically doing all of my work right now.