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Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by j45 »

KronisLV wrote: post #81
jimbo808 wrote: post #22

I'm not sure how this will play out long term, but I really am not a fan of having to feel like I'm using a limited resource whenever I use an LLM. People like unlimited plans, we are used to them for internet, text messaging, etc. The current pricing models just feel bad.

I personally take an issue with them expecting that your usage would be more or less consistent throughout the month. Instead, I might have low usage throughout most of the month and then an 11 hour binge a few days, which in most cases would involve running into rate limits (either that, or just token limitations for inputs). That's why using the API directly and paying for tokens anything past that basic usage feel…

Can anyone help compare a cost comparison between Gemini 2.5 pro vs Claude Code on a plan or API?

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by j45 »

furyofantares wrote: post #74
jimbo808 wrote: post #22

I'm not sure how this will play out long term, but I really am not a fan of having to feel like I'm using a limited resource whenever I use an LLM. People like unlimited plans, we are used to them for internet, text messaging, etc. The current pricing models just feel bad.

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.

The calculation of hours is a little tough to imagine sometimes, is it the inference time itself, or the period of time used? Is there an average token cost per hour of use (average or explicit?)

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by artursapek »

el_benhameen wrote: post #128
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…

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”…

Just curious, what do people use these expensive reasoning models for?

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by thomasfromcdnjs »

strictnein wrote: post #114

Confused on the Max 5x vs Max 20x. I'm on the latter, and in my email it says: > "Most Max 20x users can expect 240-480 hours of Sonnet 4 and 24-40 hours of Opus 4 within their weekly rate limits." In this post it says: > "Most Max 5x users can expect 140-280 hours of Sonnet 4 and 15-35 hours of Opus 4 within their weekly rate limits." How is the "Max 20x" only an additional 5-9 hours of Opus 4, and not 4x that of "M…

Would love more feedback on this, I will definitely downgrade from Max 20x if it is the case. Cost me $350 a month in Australia...

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by buzzerbetrayed »

foota wrote: post #380
strictnein wrote: post #259

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not what they claim: https://www.anthropic.com/pricing > Max > Choose 5x or 20x more usage per session than Pro* > Higher output limits for all tasks > Priority access at high traffic times That first bullet pretty clearly implies 4x the usage and the last one implies that Max gets priority over Pro, not that 20x gets priority over 5x.

That is sort of what it implies, but I don't think that's what's actually happening on the backend. I was looking at this yesterday though and I agree that it's all a bit hand-wavy. I feel for them somewhat though because it's hand-wavy because it's a difficult problem to solve. They're essentially offering spot instances.

Some say hand wavy where others say dishonest. You’re justifying their dishonesty because telling the truth would cost them customers.

Gross.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by steve_adams_86 »

throwup238 wrote: post #429
tkiolp4 wrote: post #397

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Killing a fly with a cannonball.

Doesn’t really matter when the marginal cost of the cannonball is effectively zero - I’m already paying the monthly subscription. Then not using the canonball is just a waste of time, which is a heck of a lot more valuable than some purist aversion to using LLMs to save time and effort.

One could argue this is like paying a subscription for gasoline and saying you better use it up or it's a waste. There's an externality at play.

I know LLMs aren't as much of an environmental scourge as people sometimes make them out to be, but if they're used eagerly and aggressively, their impacts certainly have a capability of scaling in concerning ways.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by bananapub »

mkbelieve wrote: post #292

I understand, but I also will not pay a subscription fee for limited service. I canceled as soon as I got this e-mail. Too bad I signed up for an annual subscription last month. This is also exactly why I feel this industry is sitting atop a massive bubble.

> I also will not pay a subscription fee for limited service.

you...already were? it already had a variety of limits, they've just added one new one (total weekly use to discourage highly efficient 24/7 use of their discounted subscriptions).

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by bananapub »

sneak wrote: post #416

Why not just have a usage-based pricing system that people can opt in to so that they just pay-as-they-go once they hit these plan limits? It makes no sense to me that you would tell customers “no”. Make it easy for them to give you more money.

they already do, you can give claude code an API key and it charges per token.

this entire thread is people whinging about the "you get some reasonable use for a flat fee" product having the "reasonable use" level capped a bit at the extreme edge.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

sva_ wrote: post #337
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…

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On a Mac, you can use option-shift-dash to insert an emdash, which is muscle memory for me.

If I had used an LLM, maybe I wouldn't have misspelled "losing" not once but twice and not noticed until after the edit window. <_<

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