Anthropic is introducing new weekly usage limits for its Claude AI Pro subscribers. According to the company, the movement aims to ensure a reliable experience for everyone. While this update aims to fine-tune service access, the firm indicates it will impact less than 5% of its current users.
The decision comes amidst notable growth for Claude Code, particularly as part of its subscription bundle. This expansion has also brought challenges. The list includes instances of account sharing, reselling access, and advanced usage patterns like running Claude around the clock. It seems these activities have begun to strain Anthropic’s server capacity, affecting overall service quality. The new limits are a direct response to these issues.
Anthropic announces weekly limits for Claude Pro AI subscribers
Starting August 28, or with their next billing cycle, Claude Pro subscribers will have new weekly usage limits. These will coexist with the existing 5-hour usage limits, meaning users will now have an overall weekly cap. Claude Opus 4 will also have its own specific weekly limit (reset every 7 days). Anthropic notes that these limits might be adjusted in the future as they gain more insight into developer usage patterns.
For the vast majority of users of the AI platform, these changes are expected to be imperceptible. The weekly caps are designed to accommodate typical daily project use. Most Pro users can anticipate between 40 to 80 hours of Sonnet 4 usage within their weekly allocation. Factors like the size of codebases and user settings, such as auto-accept mode, will influence this specific allowance. Users running multiple Claude Code instances simultaneously, however, may find themselves reaching these new limits more quickly.
Anthropic emphasizes that this decision was made thoughtfully. The company remains dedicated to supporting long-running use cases and plans to introduce alternative solutions in the future. In the meantime, they claim these weekly limits are a necessary step to maintain a reliable service for the entire user base. The team also acknowledges recent performance issues and confirms ongoing efforts to resolve them promptly.
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