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Claude Code weekly limits reduce by a third tomorrow

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15910845-claude-code-may-august-2026-weekly-limits-promotion
70•tyre•1h ago

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Bluestein•39m ago
This might explain the outtages today, as folks race, misguidedly or not.-
wilg•22m ago
Claude Opus and Fable are so bad compared to GPT-5.6-Sol it's ridiculous, their desktop client is worse, and the value is worse because OpenAI has been spamming discounts. They better get their shit together at Anthropic!
johnwheeler•15m ago
I don't know why this comment's getting down voted. It's absolutely true. I would also add that Anthropic seems to limit, compute, the more you use it because I'm on the Max subscription, and it just stops working for me.

I'll ask it to do something and it'll say, I tried, but I couldn't do it over and over again or some variation of.

But it doesn't do that at the start of my subscription, so...

Mond_•10m ago
> I don't know why this comment's getting down voted.

Because just calling something bad does not add a lot to the conversation. It's not thoughtful, interesting, or good.

kelnos•5m ago
[delayed]
hombre_fatal•12m ago
gpt-5.6-sol uses fewer tokens and OpenAI has been more generous with usage, but quality-wise I wouldn't say they are inferior to each other.

I have a Claude Code and OpenAI subscription so that I can use Opus/Fable/gpt-5.6 as I please, and the models are often catching things the other models missed. So much that I would significantly weaken my workflow if I dropped one subscription.

My best workflow at the moment is to create the initial plan with Fable (before review/revise-cycling with other models). From my own testing it seems slightly better at arriving at high-level ideal solutions after sweeping the whole project, projecting future needs, then coming up with good trade-offs like "by construction" correctness.

While mostly subjective, maybe the closest objectivity I have here is noticing fewer revision cycles needed with Fable-initialized plans.

kbrannigan•10m ago
Any model currently in 2026 is better than the ones of 2024. What is the quality difference really.

I mean i think if a developer has a good handle of the code the difference is marginal .

Unless we 100% offload the thinking to the model and act like a prompt manager. Maybe

hombre_fatal•5m ago
For personal projects, I defer almost everything day-to-day to the models except major decision branches where they cannot decide, so it gives me a good feel for what the models are good at.
Alephinitesimal•21m ago
I saw this announcement when it came out and completely forgot about it. That explains why Claude Code felt so surprisingly generous these past few months.
bdcravens•17m ago
The promotion is ending; the limits are reverting to pre-promotion levels.

"From May 13, 2026 through August 19, 2026, your weekly usage limit in Claude Code is 50% higher."

sandcat_•12m ago
During this period however they’ve released models which lots of people report to be significantly more chatty. Framing it purely as a promotion ending feels like you’re giving them a bit too much credit. I doubt it’s a coincidence they started this promotion a week before the release of 4.8.
dexwiz•6m ago
I think running a model unsupervised in anything above medium is a sucker move to burn more tokens. The high effort models can be great in limited context, but unsupervised they too often end up navel gazing. High doesn't always mean smarter, but it always burns more tokens. Medium and low seem to be decent for day to day tasks.
johnnyApplePRNG•8m ago
Choco rations going up.

Double plus good, eh!

nostrebored•16m ago
prediction: extension of promotions because of the progressive move to codex.
tziki•12m ago
Are there any figure to back up people moving to Codex?
sscaryterry•8m ago
I for one, and I know of plenty others.
Jnr•12m ago
With how bad Opus 5 and how expensive and limited Fable is, I would not be surprised.
jdoe1337halo•16m ago
Anthropic seems cooked right now in terms of compute
johnnyApplePRNG•11m ago
Currently (and regularly) down, indeed.
jrflo•7m ago
They've been really struggling all of 2026. All of these "limited time" promos, just to have less usage than codex, and the shenanigans around "peak hour" reduction earlier in the year.
dgellow•6m ago
To be fair, their growth is ridiculously insane. I don't know how else that can be described
swader999•13m ago
Looking like this will be the last month with Anthropic. Between the outages and just overall crap utility of Opus/Fable lately...
apsurd•10m ago
also codex + sol is really good and quite fast.
ipsod•8m ago
I switched when 4.7 dropped, after over a year on the service. It was an immediate improvement - not even 1 hour before Codex was giving me better results with less effort.
danudey•8m ago
Maybe with lower weekly quotas the load will be lower and we'll have fewer outages? A guy can dream.
bellowsgulch•13m ago
[delayed]
_diyar•13m ago
I wonder if this promotion was because of the summer holidays.
elektor•12m ago
Does summer holidays only apply to Europeans? I think most Americans are still largely in office for August
MaxPock•13m ago
Will Anthropic be the Netscape or Yahoo of our time ?
brandonhbodine•10m ago
I wonder if they schedule these promotions around training runs?
bugglebeetle•7m ago
I forgot this was in effect. I’ve been hitting my weekly rate limits two to three days in because of needing to steer Slopus 5 with Fable. Absurd that they’re being cut further in the face of steep competition from open weights models.
Taikhoom10•6m ago
Anthropic's struggles have only started - https://s-1.vercel.app/posts/the-capital-cycle-theory/
PacificSpecific•5m ago
I got a max account during this promotion and it's been very fun but I'm a little burned out and am kind of looking forward to going back and tinkering with game engines without the help of an LLM for code gen (will still use it for documentation questions but I can do that with the free tier)

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https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15910845-claude-code-may-august-2026-weekly-limits-promotion
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