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Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by wahnfrieden »

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…

It is becoming typical to counter this (and the multi-hour limits) simply by purchasing multiple Max tier subscriptions.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by wahnfrieden »

artursapek wrote: post #434
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”…

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

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Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by ehnto »

I am pretty interested in what the person letting it run 24/7 is achieving. Is it a continuously processing workload of some kind that pipes into the model? Maybe a 24/7 chat support with high throughput? Very curious.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by sneak »

bananapub wrote: post #439
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.

No, I mean, a one-click (or no-click) upgrade path. Having to hit a wall and then go get your API key and stuff sounds like a pain. It should just ask you if you want to switch to usage-based pricing when you hit the limit.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by wahnfrieden »

jonas21 wrote: post #202
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…

You can use an API key to get more usage on a pay-as-you-go basis.

Just buy several Max tier subscriptions...

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by samrus »

AstroBen wrote: post #496
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…

It's quite possible changing plans to something that's enough to make them profitable would push everyone to a competitor Slowly bringing up prices as people get dependent sounds like a pretty decent strategy if they have the money to burn

Changing plans? They could just keep the old plans and add a new one, like OAIs 2k/month plan

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by wahnfrieden »

chomp wrote: post #133
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…

Just use the API

Just buy multiple Max subscriptions.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by aspenmayer »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #509
aspenmayer wrote: post #454

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> prevent people from gaming the system If I sit down for dinner at an all-you-can-eat buffet, I get to decide how much I’m having for dinner. I don’t mind if they don’t let me take leftovers, as it is already understood that they mean as much as I can eat in one sitting. If they don’t want folks to take advantage of an advertised offer, then they should change their sales pitch. It’s explicitly not gaming any system…

I feel like using Claude Code overnight while you sleep or sharing your account with someone else is equivalent to taking home leftovers from an all-you-can-eat buffet. I also find it hard to believe 5% of customers are doing that, though.

If that’s off-peak time, I’d argue the adjacent opposite point, that Anthropic et al could implement deferred and/or scheduled jobs natively so that folks can do what they’re going to do anyway in a way that comports with reasonable load management that all vendors must do.

For example, I don’t mind that Netflix pauses playback after playing continuously for a few episodes of a show, because the options they present me with acknowledge different use cases. The options are: stop playing, play now and ask me again later, and play now and don’t ask me again. These options are kind to the user because they don’t disable the power user option.

Re: Claude Code weekly rate limits

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Post by jongjong »

For the sake of saying something positive on HN, Claude Code is great. I haven't run into any limits yet. My code is quite minimalist and the output of Claude Code is also minimalist, maybe that's why.

If you work on some overengineered codebase, it will produce overengineered code; this requires more tokens.

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