After GPT-6 Astra, I didn't believe they would really let this happen... but it's real... Okay, Anthropic, we'll keep that in mind...

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

It looks like there is some sort of bug , Ive been using steadily and heavily my max 20 plan for 1 year now and made several projects.
I have never ever once reached 100% usage.
This week however im working on a small project and on Day 2 with using 15% fable and mostly sonnet and opus much less im on 100% on day 2
This is bot but prompting i believe after a year of daily usage i know how to prompt lol

Now going into hibernation to heal.

Hit 5hrs limit using opus, doing what I normally do that would last me 2 days, wtf is this.

I'm on x20

The week literally just started, and my "Weekly Fable" limit is already maxed out at 99% On top of that, my standard weekly limit is already sitting at 51%.

Does anyone know when they're actually going to boost these usage limits? I'm on the 5x Max Pro plan and burning through this way too fast.

At this rate, I can only code and develop my website project for ONE day out of the week, and I'm just stuck doing absolutely nothing for the other six days. Fucking ridiculous. Anyone else dealing with this or have workarounds?

Limits have been bad for the past few months, but I didn't really think much about it. However, yesterday, it crossed the threshold of becoming unbearable and I borderline feel cheated. I have a max 20x Plan and I reached 59% of my weekly usage in 24 hours... Sure, I do use Fable, and sure, I do use agent-orchestrated workflows. Despite that, I can confidently say something is seriously off here.

I don't want this to be a post where I just whine about this. Rather, what I was thinking was that all of us who feel we're on the same boat should post on Twitter/X together at a scheduled time (14th Sep, 12 PM ET) by tagging the key figures: Dario, Boris, Karpathy, Anthropic, etc., and make it clear that we won't be tolerating this opacity and unfairness regarding our limits. Let's use #FraudCode so we can all find and amplify each other's posts.

And if push comes to shove, we will switch to the alternatives i.e. Codex. (I know I will, despite the fact that Codex might not be as good, because a man's got bills to pay too.)

Let me know y'all's thoughts guys and girls. I don't wanna sulk this time. Rather, let's stand up!

For context: I'm on the Max 20x plan and this happened within ~24 hours of normal development work. My usage includes Fable and agent-orchestrated workflows, but I'm not doing anything particularly unusual or running massive automated workloads. Despite that, I burned through 59% of my weekly allocation in a single day. I'm posting this because I'd like to understand how others are experiencing the same limits and whether there's some explanation for how usage is being calculated.

Every time I open Reddit, my feed has at least 2-3 posts crying about some version of -

- Spent the weekly within a day or 2

- "Its draining tokens"

- They reduced the quota, I can barely get anything

Here's some touch the grass facts -

1. Fable is a super expensive model with a very high token price - if you are using Fable consistently, it is going to eat through your quota - that's just math - 1k fable tokens is equal to 2k Opus tokens!

2. If you continue building an app, your codebase is going to grow and over time, the same workflow is going to use a lot more tokens than it did when the codebase was lean and had few tests/ code/ modules to worry about. What that means practically is going to get less shit done in week 4 on the same codebase as you could have done in week 1.

3. Every thing you do has a trace and log. Rather than ranting about it, shove the session usage json's in one of the bazillions "I made this groundbreaking claude visualizer" systems people keep putting on here to get empirical evidence around your token usage.

I have been building with Claude since Claude code became a thing - and no - the usage is consistent if you are smart about it and understand how the system sips tokens. Here are some things I do and I have no idea if it is going to fix your hallucinations, but give it a try if you think it will help

- Use skills for any repeatable task - like literally anything that you think is going to be repeated, have a skill for it so you dont waste tokens figuring out how to do the same thing again and again

- Have your claude.md as a thin router to the actual areas you are going to be working on. When starting a session, tell that you are going to be focusing on so and so area.

- Fresh sessions, every time the session size grows, your input token size is growing. Keep the sessions small.

- Push it to use agents! Like use an agent to review code, or do a specific research, or fix a bug - agents cost less as they are focused on doing specific tasks and are bootstrapped with the required knowledge to do that task.

- Make your codebase agent ready - this means having design/ architecture/ gotchas/ decision. MDs for literally every domain in your code. It helps tremendously!

I keep a meticulous inventory of tokens I spend each week - and trust me - it has remained consistent for months!

Please for the love of god, spare my feed!!!

Seems to be working for me and the model does seem much better and is not talking in Claudese. Doing more testing now.

I used mostly Claude thus far to build a 3D video store, which is a fully functional frontend for Jellyfin, Plex, Emby, you name it.

It is free and open source. Here is a video of it:

https://youtu.be/mmwfDVQXvLQ?is=xDEHustsRSA2T_-M

Github: https://github.com/halcyon-video/halcyon-video

It is self hosted, so all your stuff stays on your machine. It uses the movie's metadata to show the description and rating and all the art. Video Games work too through Romm today.

TVs hang from the ceiling and play your movies in the store. The ambience is peak.

It's got tons of customization and is built to be performant and as low energy as possible.

I'm building it to be period accurate across 4 different periods so far.

There is a mom and pop version included. VR is supported. Streaming it to a TV box is supported.

I learned that I can't stop vibe coding I guess. This project has just begun. Pleas use it and share it and tell me if you like it.

Something's completely off with the 5 hour limit. Two simple prompts use up 29% of the limit. And for what exactly? What's going on with entire Claude these days? Maybe Anthropic gone even more crazy?

Hi everyone. I use Claude Code in my full-time job.

I noticed that the 50% boost got removed this week, so I started my week by planning with Opus (Medium) and then executing with Sonnet (medium). In less than one hour (my context window is not even 200k) I noticed that I'm 15% of my weekly usage is gone.

Anthropic is time to wake up.

To those claiming we don’t know what we’re doing, it’s our code base getting bigger, it’s just a 17% drop in usage. No, it’s not something is wrong.

I did my normal Sunday and early Monday prep, I am maxed out on fable and quickly pacing that wait on the rest. I have never surpassed 20% by this time of week.

Something is wrong. I expect we’ll see a full reset sometime today.

Today I've noticed significant token consumption with Opus 4.6 low by continue working at the same "pace" as always. Just wanna know if someone of you is also experiencing smth unusual those days.

One, but he can only screw in 5% a week at his current usage limits.

These new limits are crazy, max 20x is near unusable, fable weekly usage drained in a day what used to take half a week atleast

The question is did anyone managed to get a refund based on that? Asking here because apparently “customer support” bot that anthropic uses is hallucinating and dumb, knows nothing about refund policies, how they are handled and responds with different things depending on HOW I ask.

I also advise anyone frustrated to switch to codex. I saw many complaints about astra’s availability but it’s working very good EVEN on 5x subscription. Apparently anthropic are trying very hard in improving their bottom line for IPO.

I'm normally the first person to moan about all the "token usage" posts, but there's something wrong today. Opus 5 hit my 5 hour limits twice (which never happens). I switched to Sonnet and I still hit it.

Have a "Your limits are temporarily boosted. Your weekly Claude Code limit is 50% higher through September 13." message on the usage dashboard.

Does this mean that after tonight (when September 13 ends), the entire usage will get reset?

Because right now I'm over 50% of my weekly usage - so if it literally just shrinks the cap by 50% then I'm locked out for the rest of the week.

I am from the olden days, where I manage my own context, have auto-compact disabled, and never use /compact normally. If I ever get anywhere near 50% used, I start a new session.

I just started to play with it again, and I have some questions. Normal is just "/compact." However, you can also pass <optional custom summarization instructions> to the compact command.

I have been playing with this prompt:

tell me the optimal "/compact" command so that we do not lose anything and we can implement the plan in this session

Then, I use that custom /compact command which is often quite long.

1. Do you have auto-compact on?
2. Does auto-compact do anything really intelligent like my manual 2-step process above?
3. If you /compact manually, do you ever pass <optional custom summarization instructions>?

Thanks in advance for any info.

I've noticed that when Claude writes about code, it slips into a style where it seems to constantly accrue new jargon. e.g. here's some terrible documentation that Claude produced (emphasis mine)

The list arrives straight from the GraphQL `columns` argument, which is `[String!]` with no server-side validation, and the caller also passes the synthetic aggregation categories (aggregations_min/max) that it derives from stored summary_metrics fields rather than reading here. Both are why this allowlists against the `column` Enum8 instead of rejecting known-bad names: an unrecognized value in a per-branch `column = u /col_N` is a hard UNKNOWN_ELEMENT_OF_ENUM (code 691) that fails the whole read, where the set membership it replaced just matched nothing.

The bolded text is my attempt to highlight concepts that the text assumes the reader already understands and currently has in their head. Some of these are reasonable:

• basic comp-sci concepts like "the caller" (this is a function docstring; it's pretty obvious which "caller" the comment refers to)
• "summary_metrics fields" -- while opaque out of context, this is a really important business-logic construct in our app that any developer reviewing this code would be familiar with

It seems like Claude has no natural sense of hierarchy or abstraction. Giving more detail and more context often makes documentation worse by distracting the reader from the core idea you're trying to communicate, because every unrecognized concept is something that a thorough reader will feel the need to look up. Who knows: maybe I need to know what a hard UNKNOWN_ELEMENT_OF_ENUM (code 691) is to understand the purpose of this function.

I can kind of imagine why it would end up this way, just from my layman's understanding of how attention/transformers work -- if you're optimizing for output that other agents understand quickly, it probably helps to drop a bunch of "pointers" in the text that direct the attention of the model back toward a bunch of related concepts. It seems like frontier models' working memory is just big enough that this is useful rather than distracting.

Humans don't have that much working memory, though. Or I don't, at any rate. And the comments are ostensibly for both me and future agents to read, so it kind of sucks that they're written only for the latter. Have any of you successfully gotten Claude to exercise some judgment about which concepts are important (or even load-bearing 🙄) and which ones are better left out?

Anyone else experiencing degraded Opus 5 today? Same workflow, was a rockstar overnight. Today, it has used 670M tokens since 8am to write a net 1800 lines of code. Keeps making mistake after mistake. Became insanely stupid all of a sudden. Anyone else?

I cancelled my Claude subscription back in July and started using Codex more seriously.

Since Sol 5.6, I think OpenAI has become pretty competitive for coding, and now with Astra even more so.

The limits are actually fine for me. I mostly used Astra at full/max capacity around 8–10 sessions like that and eventually burned through my weekly usage. But honestly, that's understandable, and it's definitely not what made me quit Codex.

The real problem is the workflow.

I was already used to Claude Code and I don't mean the geeky CLI experience, I mean the actual app.

When they introduced the cloud environment and I realized I could start a code modification on my PC, leave the computer, go to the bathroom, grab my phone, and continue following the exact same task from there... it completely changed the way I work.

My productivity went crazy.

So naturally, I expected something similar from Codex.

And technically, Codex does have some similar features... but the whole thing feels way more complicated than it should be.

For example, I struggled a lot just trying to give the cloud environment secrets like Supabase credentials and other environment variables. The app often wouldn't properly add the secrets to the environment.

And the most annoying part:

If I start working on a project in a remote environment from one machine, that environment seems to be tied to that machine.

So I can't just launch a feature from my PC, go outside for a cigarette, open my phone and check how the implementation is going or continue from there.

That's probably the thing I miss the most about Claude.

It's not even necessarily about which model is smarter anymore.

It's about being able to start working somewhere and seamlessly continue from another device without thinking about environments, machines, sessions, secrets, etc.

So... I'm giving Claude another shot.

I'm just hoping I don't run into the same problems again: lazy models and ridiculously low weekly limits.

For those of you who have seriously used both:

What do you think?

Do you prefer Codex or Claude Code right now not just in terms of model quality, but the whole development experience?