Claude Code adjusting down 5hr limits

One 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 & incredibly incredibly rude.

Similar 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.

Like electric cars. It's nice to charge it in summer 2013 when you're the only one on supercharger, and pain waiting in a pissing queue of 10 cars right now

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: roughly $1,300–$1,900 - Separate Sonnet-only 7d budget at ~$150 - 95% of tokens are cache reads. They barely move the meter.

It’s open source so more people can run it and we can figure out the real numbers.

https://github.com/abhishekray07/claude-meter