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…
Claude Code adjusting down 5hr limits
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#13And they don't announce it through any official communications but hope it gets buried on Twitter.
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#14And 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.
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#16One 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…
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#17Is this legal for Anthropic to do? The whole thing screams fraud / rug pull.
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#18Super shady and opaque. And this is just the start of the enshittification slope…
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#19Similar to what google recently pulled with Antigravity limits. I guess we may be on the cusp of seeing how much AI usage is really going to cost us when demand goes up and the subsidies disappear.
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#20Is this legal for Anthropic to do? The whole thing screams fraud / rug pull.
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