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Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by mrits »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #88

I'm probably not going to hit the weekly limit, but it makes me nervous that the limit is weekly as opposed to every 36 hours or something. If I do hit the limit, that's it for the entire week —a long time to be without a tool I've grown accustomed to! I feel like someone is going to reply that I'm too reliant on Claude or something. Maybe that's true, but I'd feel the same about the prospect of loosing ripgrep for a…

I imagine they will add some features soon where you have more control. It could get complicated quickly. Before they put this in I think they should have at least given you an easy way to buy more credits at a hugely discounted rate.

I know entire offices in Bangladesh share some of these accounts, so I can see how it is a problem.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by ChadMoran »

serf wrote: post #11

200 bucks a month isn't enough. Fine. Make a plan that is enough so that I will be left alone about time limits and enforced breaks. NOTHING breaks flow better than "Woops! Times up!"; it's worse than credit quotas -- at least then I can make a conscious decision to spend more money or not towards the project. This whole 'twiddle your thumbs for 5 hours while the gpus cool off' concept isn't productive for me. '35 ho…

This. Optimize for the good actors, not the bad ones.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by doorhammer »

littlestymaar wrote: post #163
el_benhameen wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is how I feel about the 100 msg/wk limit on o3 for the ChatGPT plus plan. There’s no way to see how much I’ve used, and it’s an important enough resource that my lizard brain wants to hoard it. The result is that I way underutilize my plan and go for one of the o4-mini models instead. I would much prefer a lower daily limit, but maybe the underutilization is the point of the weekly limit. *edited to change “pro”…

> This is how I feel about the 100 msg/wk limit on o3 for the ChatGPT Do I read this correctly? Only 100 messages per week, on the pro plan worth a few hundred buck a month?!

I think it’s just a mistype

I have a pro plan and I hammer o3–I’d guess more than a hundred a day sometimes—and have never run into limits personally

Wouldn’t shock me if something like that happened but haven’t seen evidence of it yet

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by paxys »

johnpaulkiser wrote: post #174
chomp wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s not what the parent commenter asked though, they wanted a price for not being concerned about limits. The API pricing is that.

I doubts thats what they want. They want a static fixed price, $5k a month for example and never have to think about it.

Even if you used the API 24x7 for a single session (no parallel requests) I doubt you'd be able to hit $5k/mo in usage for Claude 4 Sonnet.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by knowsuchagency »

One feature I would love to have is the ability to switch the model used for a message using a shorthand like #sonnet. Often, I don't want or need opus but I don't want to engage in a 3 step process where I need to:

1. switch models using /model 2. message 3. switch back to opus using /model

Help me help you (manage usage) by allowing me to submit something like "let's commit and push our changes to github #sonnet". Tasks like these rarely need opus-level intelligence and it comes up all the time.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by furyofantares »

wrs wrote: post #158
furyofantares wrote: post #74

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The Sonnet usage does not really look limited at 240-480 hours per week (a week has 168 hours in it). Opus at 24-40 looks pretty good too. A little hard to believe they aren't losing a bunch of money still if you're using those limits tbh.

You can run multiple instances of Claude Code at the same time.

I know, I do it all the time! I wasn't calling out 240 hours as being impossible to hit in 168 hour weeks. I suppose "does not really look limited" could be read multiple ways - I did not mean it's literally unlimited, just that it doesn't look very limited.

You can make your own comparison to however many hours you usually spend working in a week and how many sessions you have active on average during that time.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by tomwphillips »

alwillis wrote: post #175

From Anthropic’s Reddit account: One user consumed tens of thousands in model usage on a $200 plan. Though we're developing solutions for these advanced use cases, our new rate limits will ensure a more equitable experience for all users while also preventing policy violations like account sharing and reselling access. This is why we can’t have nice things.

I think it might actually be because they're selling services at a loss.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by CSMastermind »

littlestymaar wrote: post #163
el_benhameen wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is how I feel about the 100 msg/wk limit on o3 for the ChatGPT plus plan. There’s no way to see how much I’ve used, and it’s an important enough resource that my lizard brain wants to hoard it. The result is that I way underutilize my plan and go for one of the o4-mini models instead. I would much prefer a lower daily limit, but maybe the underutilization is the point of the weekly limit. *edited to change “pro”…

> This is how I feel about the 100 msg/wk limit on o3 for the ChatGPT Do I read this correctly? Only 100 messages per week, on the pro plan worth a few hundred buck a month?!

That's definitely not correct because I'm on the pro plan and make extensive use of o3-pro for coding. I've sent 100 messages in a single day with no limitation.

Per their website: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9793128-what-is-chatgpt-...

There are no usage caps on pro users (subject to some common sense terms of use).

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