I didn't understood "your five-hour usage" I thought plans were per interaction or per token, not per hour.
There's a limit that resets every five hours and one that resets every week.
Claude March 2026 usage promotion
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Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion
#12This is great, but i guess they are feeling the heat from Codex resetting limits in the last month quite a bit.
I think they're feeling the heat from growing too quickly so they want to incentivize people to spread the load more evenly.
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#13This is great, but i guess they are feeling the heat from Codex resetting limits in the last month quite a bit.
The insanely competitive market for LLMs is great for us, but if I were one of the investors in these companies it wouldn't exactly fill me with confidence that my $500 billion spent on datacenters and Nvidia cards is going to get repaid ten times over like they're claiming. I'm still getting very strong "this is a commodity; margins will be driven inexorably to zero" vibes from these products.
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#14I just know there has to be some psychology in play with these promos. The promo during December got me to upgrade to the $100 plan, and I know I'm not the only one.
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#15Australia here we come.
Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion
#16I’m trying to figure out how this affects weekly limits, since those overlap peak hours. My observation is that it doesn’t. But I could be wrong. If they are doing it “right” I think any off peak usage should count 50% toward your weekly limits. Edit: it does look like they are doing it the "right" way.
> Does bonus usage count against my weekly usage limit? > No. The additional usage you get during off-peak hours doesn’t count toward any weekly usage limits on your plan.
I just watched my "weekly limit" get used while I ran a claude code command.
I'm not sure how to square that with the quote you gave.
Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion
#17So afternoon in Germany or am I misreading?
Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Does bonus usage count against my weekly usage limit? > No. The additional usage you get during off-peak hours doesn’t count toward any weekly usage limits on your plan.
I just watched my "weekly limit" get used while I ran a claude code command. I'm not sure how to square that with the quote you gave.
Did you exhaust the five-hour usage limit already? As I understand it, the ”additional usage” refers to anything beyond the standard five-hour usage limit.
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#19This is a psyop to recruit more Australians I'm sure of it
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#20I just know there has to be some psychology in play with these promos. The promo during December got me to upgrade to the $100 plan, and I know I'm not the only one.
There's definitely psychology in play, but I think it might be less "trying to get you to spend more" and more "trying to incentivize load-shifting", which (to me at least) is a lot less sinister-- my utility does this too for electricity, and nobody attributes malicious intent to it.
We all know these services see huge load spikes and sometimes service degradation when America wakes up, and I bet they'd appreciate it if as many "chug-and-plug" agent workflows moved to overnight hours as possible.