Anthropic adjusts Claude session limits and says users will use up their limits faster during peak hours, amid compute strain due to Claude's new popularity
Follow Brent D. Griffiths … - Anthropic adjusted Claude usage caps during peak hours. — The changes show that the AI company is experiencing some compute strain.
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Discussion
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@trq212
@trq212
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To manage growing demand for Claude we're adjusting our 5 hour session limits for free/Pro/Max subs during peak hours. Your weekly limits remain unchanged. During weekdays between 5am-11am PT / 1pm-7pm GMT, you'll move through your 5-hour session limits faster than before.
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@trq212
@trq212
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We've landed a lot of efficiency wins to offset this, but ~7% of users will hit session limits they wouldn't have before, particularly for pro tiers. If you run token-intensive background jobs, shifting them to off-peak hours will stretch your session limits further.
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@trq212
@trq212
on x
Overall weekly limits stay the same, just how they're distributed across the week is changing. I know this was frustrating. We're continuing to invest in scaling efficiently. I'll keep you posted on progress.
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@buccocapital
@buccocapital
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Thariq: “I need to give our customers less for the same price. How can I obfuscate that as much as possible” Claude: “How about 'You'll move through your 5-hour session limits faster than before'”
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@elvissun
Elvis
on x
which happen first? A) Max 20x becomes $1000/mo B) Anthropic burns through all its customer goodwill
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@gergelyorosz
Gergely Orosz
on x
Devs who can code also WITHOUT AI as well looking to became 10x more valuable They are the ones who won't panic or be idle when their Claude quota runs out... So much for all the advice on how learning to code is not worth it any more...
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@tekbog
@tekbog
on x
this is why open source is important
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@reach_vb
@reach_vb
on x
meanwhile, you can enjoy Codex with 2x rate limits for the next week 24x7 across all ChatGPT subscriptions! npm i -g @openai/codex time to build is NOW!!
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@edzitron
Ed Zitron
on x
It begins...
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@weswinder
Wes Winder
on x
this guy literally called this 11 days ago and this was thariq's response lol [image]
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@edsocra
Eduarda Ferreira
on x
You're going from rewarding users using it during off-peak hours (double usage which ends March 28th) to punishing them for using during peak hours. I think that's a terrible move if you want happy customers.
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@pranit
@pranit
on x
nah it's not that deep [image]
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@matthewberman
Matthew Berman
on x
Too much demand...or not enough compute?
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@sawyerhood
Sawyer Hood
on x
welcome to the permanent underclass fam
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@bradgroux
Brad Groux
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You make this announcement BEFORE you make the change. Good riddance... what a shame @AnthropicAI and @claudeai. Customer service isn't hard, @DarioAmodei. This was a rug pool and y'all got caught. I hope the @FTC fines you.
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@vivianmshen
Vivian Midha Shen
on x
anthropic is a utility company now
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@mariofilhoml
Mario Filho
on x
“you'll move through your 5-hour session limits faster than before.” really well-written thread to avoid saying “we are reducing the limits”
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@weswinder
Wes Winder
on x
ai is getting billed like utilities lol
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@grady_booch
Grady Booch
on x
The enshittification of @claudeai begins.
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@thdxr
Dax
on x
this is probably going to have a positive impact on software
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@theo
@theo
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I think people are overreacting to this. It sucks, but they clearly have a real compute shortage and this was the best path they had without cutting your usage massively
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Claude reducing token limits on all tiers during busy hours