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.
My usage only shows daily and weekly, though. I never got that.
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#22I didn't understood "your five-hour usage" I thought plans were per interaction or per token, not per hour.
You can pay either for API usage or a fixed monthly plan (which is way cheaper but you can't use it for applications, just personal use).
Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's a limit that resets every five hours and one that resets every week.
My usage only shows daily and weekly, though. I never got that.
It has "current session" and "weekly". If you notice, "current session" is never more than five hours away from expiration.
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#24I 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 i…
My assumption was always that the December promo was a combination – they were presumably way under capacity because everyone was on holiday given how enterprise-heavy they are, so giving people a bunch of extra usage with a loud promo meant a whole bunch of people would try Claude and see how good it had gotten at very little cost to Anthropic.
Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
My usage only shows daily and weekly, though. I never got that.
It has "current session" and "weekly". If you notice, "current session" is never more than five hours away from expiration.
Oh, you're right. I don't know why I've always misread "current session" as daily.
Thanks for clearing that up. It'll help me schedule stuff in the future.
Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion
#26So afternoon in Germany or am I misreading?
Outside 4pm to 10pm
Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion
#27This 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.
Very much like electric utility time of day pricing, using economic incentives to shift demand to trough periods.
Perhaps an opportunity for them to improve workload scheduling orchestration, like submitting a job to a distributed computing cluster queue, to smooth demand and maximize utilization.
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#29I 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.
The psychology is to hook you on the usage. A lot of people see a little movement in the usage meter and get cold feet about heavy usage. The prior $70 credit deal and now this offering are to try to get people to dive in, and hopefully retain that usage pattern afterwards.
Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion
#30So afternoon in Germany or am I misreading?
DST shenanigans aside (we're in the "US has changed but Europe hasn't" window), 10:00 in SF is 18:00 in London. Meaning their peak time window is 13:00–19:00 London time, or 14:00–20:00 Berlin time.
So us European folks get promotional rates during the morning and evening.
EDIT: Actually, because the promo ends at the end of March, it'll all be within DST shenanigans. So peak times are 12:00–18:00 London, 13:00–19:00 Berlin.