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Claude Code adjusting down 5hr limits

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Re: Claude Code adjusting down 5hr limits

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post #10

Yeah this is a bit crazy and not surprising at all. The limits have always been opaque and you never know when they change. I started building an open-source local proxy that logs every rate-limit header Claude Code sends. I am using it to track and get a better sense of the 5h and 7d weekly limits. Some initial data from 11 observed 5h sessions on Max 20x: - 5h budget: roughly $120–$280 per window - 7d budget: rough…

Subscription business models have become a new art form thanks to Anthropic

Re: Claude Code adjusting down 5hr limits

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post #13

And they don't announce it through any official communications but hope it gets buried on Twitter.

Yeah, extremely shady. They also made the change a few days ago silently hoping no one would notice presumably... pretty disappointed in Anthropic.

Plus they are currently running a 2x usage promo outside of peak hours so many won't probably notice until it's over.

Re: Claude Code adjusting down 5hr limits

#15
Next up:

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Or watch this 3 minute ad, for 1000 tokens.

I did not think this day would come this soon, but I assure you that anthropic has no moat.

Re: Claude Code adjusting down 5hr limits

#16

One of the shadiest things I've seen is how openai treats their weekly limit. They reset it whenever they want! So if you use 25% but then it's day 3 or day 4 of the week, you've used less than the pro-rata, they'll just reset the limit. Makes me incandescent that OpenAI would have these different rate limits that apply to you, but they can do whatever they want with your limit. It's just incredibly hostile treatment…

Really? So far I never reached codex limits, but every single day my Claude limits. And quality-wise codex is beating Claude already

Re: Claude Code adjusting down 5hr limits

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post #12

Is this legal for Anthropic to do? The whole thing screams fraud / rug pull.

It's crazy to me that this is not considered fraud. You sign up for a yearly plan under a given assumption of functionality, then they just change the terms to give you less than what they agreed to without compensating you in any way. That's textbook fraud.

Re: Claude Code adjusting down 5hr limits

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post #12

Is this legal for Anthropic to do? The whole thing screams fraud / rug pull.

The amount of compute you get is not documented anywhere.

Cursor docs do say "You get $70 of api priced tokens on $60 tier"

Anthropic limits were 8.33x with free cached tokens, but those numbers themselves were a leak rather then an official statement

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