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Claude Code reduces it's weekly limit by 17% – compared to today

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Re: Claude Code reduces it's weekly limit by 17% – compared to today

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Post by zcw100 »

xlayn wrote: post #28

I pay a $100 subscription which feels infinite for me, even using only fable... 2 weeks ago I started getting notifications of running out of credit... to me it feels more like 30% than 17%... OHHHH and surprise, I'm in my 50% boosted/higher limits... so this means I'll probably hit the $100 limit now constantly... I use the thing a bit... yesterday and it shows 14% of the week allocation used...

I worried about this myself. 50% higher limits were nice but the flip side is you get used to it and then it just feels like they're taking 50% away. I'm not sure it's going to have the effect that Anthropic was expecting....or maybe that was the point. Who knows. I can see both perspectives.

Re: Claude Code reduces it's weekly limit by 17% – compared to today

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Post by ByteOfWood »

BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #30

Meanwhile OpenAI resets everyone's weekly Codex limits back to 100% seemingly every other day as a kind of game.

Isn't this effectively the same thing Anthropic was doing? Eventually the resets will stop coming too, either entirely or just less frequently.

Re: Claude Code reduces it's weekly limit by 17% – compared to today

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Post by vablings »

BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #30

Meanwhile OpenAI resets everyone's weekly Codex limits back to 100% seemingly every other day as a kind of game.

I am very tempted to jump over to Codex for a little while. My friends are split between codex and claude code and hearing them getting a new reset every day for the past week has been giving me FOMO. Maybe that is intentional

Re: Claude Code reduces it's weekly limit by 17% – compared to today

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Post by sieve »

I subscribed to Claude Pro for one month earlier this year. The subscription lasts as long as you chat with it in the UI. The moment you use Claude Code, it becomes useless and you keep hitting limits. So, great for hammering out a specification, not so great for actually writing and debugging code.

I have a lot of hobby projects and cannot afford to drop $200/m for assistance from LLMs with above average intelligence. The Chinese models work quite well, and are cost effective, in comparison. My usage over the last few months:

- Gemini / AI Studio = translations

- Kimi 2.5 / OpenCode Go = Compiler/VM project, AI for some board games, a new document format and compiler for it,

- DS4 Flash / DeepSeek (had some credits lying around) + OpenCode Go = Template-based OCR engine

- MiMo 2.5 and MuseSpark 1.2 Contributor = The OCR engine + a product I am brainstorming + a lot of single page tools

If you select models judiciously, and can write good AGENTS.md and extremely short but potent ARCHITECTURE.md documents, the $10 you pay to OpenCode Go will last a long while even when you consume a hundreds of millions of tokens (mostly cache hits) a day. You can get multiple models to perform code review of modules against the ARCHITECTURE you have specified and get other models to execute the fixes.

Re: Claude Code reduces it's weekly limit by 17% – compared to today

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Post by cma »

gonzalohm wrote: post #25
cma wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When a new restaurant opens in a college town, there will often be things like an opening day where everyone with a student card gets a free taco or whatever. Cheaper than buying a physical ad at the football stadium, and targets the people that might end up eating there multiple times a week (developers bringing Claude to their companies) rather than a bunch of people just in town for the game (Claude TV ads). The t…

Right, and while you are getting your free taco you can probably ask for a copy of the menu so you can know if you are able to afford it One thing is offering free demos or discounted products for a short time and a different one is making your consumers believe that the current price is the long term price. I just want transparency. Are they done increasing prices?

> I just want transparency. Are they done increasing prices?

The initial announcement said it would only be available to subscriptions for a few weeks. The extra usage they said was for a limited time, I think it was 50% extra and they now are reducing that by 17%, less reduction than they had said.

Because it's a monthly plan they usually have given heads up of at least a month on stuff.

The API prices outside of personal subscription have always been more. Personal subscriptions are likely there for data scraping of company codebases (when users don't opt out), and for spreading the product to then get picked up by businesses the users work at or other word of mouth for API prices which they have said are profitable.

Re: Claude Code reduces it's weekly limit by 17% – compared to today

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Post by nottorp »

sieve wrote: post #44

I subscribed to Claude Pro for one month earlier this year. The subscription lasts as long as you chat with it in the UI. The moment you use Claude Code, it becomes useless and you keep hitting limits. So, great for hammering out a specification, not so great for actually writing and debugging code. I have a lot of hobby projects and cannot afford to drop $200/m for assistance from LLMs with above average intelligenc…

> and can write good AGENTS.md and extremely short but potent ARCHITECTURE.md

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/27/your-agents-md-file-doesn...

Re: Claude Code reduces it's weekly limit by 17% – compared to today

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Post by sieve »

nottorp wrote: post #46
sieve wrote: post #44

I subscribed to Claude Pro for one month earlier this year. The subscription lasts as long as you chat with it in the UI. The moment you use Claude Code, it becomes useless and you keep hitting limits. So, great for hammering out a specification, not so great for actually writing and debugging code. I have a lot of hobby projects and cannot afford to drop $200/m for assistance from LLMs with above average intelligenc…

> and can write good AGENTS.md and extremely short but potent ARCHITECTURE.md https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/27/your-agents-md-file-doesn...

It does for me. You need to ensure that they are injected into context. Your models might be broken if they ignore it. As good as ignoring a prompt.

Re: Claude Code reduces it's weekly limit by 17% – compared to today

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Post by dumberquestions »

Anon1096 wrote: post #24
gonzalohm wrote: post #17

Why tech companies never price things according to what they really cost. This new strategy of entering the market at a loss and then cranking up prices is getting old.

Nothing is priced according to what they really cost. Things are priced at what the market will bear based on supply and demand. You might as well ask this question for oil, iphones, bitcoin, restaurants, or housing the answer is all the same.

Predatory pricing is a separate issue from supply and demand.

Re: Claude Code reduces it's weekly limit by 17% – compared to today

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Post by lostNFound »

At risk of getting defenestrated (or worse, expelled...) getting a permanent 25% increase sounds good over a 50% temporal increase. Imagine if this was your wage you were talking about, wouldn't you rather the 25% perm?

I use only Fable High as well. 8 hour workday, it does my job, straight up. I only supervise. Mostly frontend and in particular, mobile, where Fable (Claude in general) is quite better than the competition, in my opinion of course.

I also use it for managing a company's website separate from my job, and my own website. And for daily studying of an unrelated university career + daily personal use. For all the ones in the current paragraph I use Opus 5 xhigh.

I don't think I've ever gotten even to 50% of the (currently augmented) levels. A 25% permanent increase is good in my books.

I mean, what? I just got the memo that we're in operation Complain and Destroy. This is horrible! I will now go buy my Torch&Pitchfork two-pack for 17% off.

Re: Claude Code reduces it's weekly limit by 17% – compared to today

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Post by shlewis »

gonzalohm wrote: post #26
Anon1096 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nothing is priced according to what they really cost. Things are priced at what the market will bear based on supply and demand. You might as well ask this question for oil, iphones, bitcoin, restaurants, or housing the answer is all the same.

I have been paying the same for my Kagi subscription since the start

Which is almost certainly less than how they really should be, according to what they (allegedly) cost.

Various cost-saving measures have been discussed, including a separate Assistant plan.

Again, it will be priced according to how much the market will deem fit, which is less than what it costs at the moment.

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