Anthropic plans to debut new rate limits for Claude Pro and Max on August 28, likely curbing <5% of users, saying some run Code “continuously in the background”
It's Bad Business Bluesky: Ed Zitron / @edzitron.com : That is not what is happening here, this is not Anthropic “doing the drug dealer model” — www.wheresyoured.at/anthropic- is... [embedded post] Ed Zitron / @edzitron.com : As expected, Anthropic is introducing weekly limits, after increasing costs dramatically on Cursor in late May/early June, and as I reported a few weeks ago, Claude code was costing anthropic remarkable amounts. I told you!!! — www.wheresyoured.at/anthropic- is... [embedded post] Katie Drummond / @katie-drummond : Why do some AI chatbot subscriptions cost so much damn money? (Like, hundreds of dollars a month!) — Vibes, apparently. From @thiccreese.bsky.social — www.wired.com/story/seriou... Ed Zitron / @edzitron.com : Good piece on the rationale behind charging $200 a month for a subscription, though I'd add the other reason is that power users are costing these companies so much money and $200 a month is *closer* to making actual money, even though they're still unprofitable — www.wheresyoured.at/anthropic- is... … Lauren Goode / @laurengoode : “Why the $200 price tag, though? White declined to discuss specifics about the economics of Claude Max's pricing and whether Anthropic is losing money on the plan. 'It's a very dynamic environment.'” @thiccreese.bsky.social on the new era of $200 software subs www.wired.com/story/seriou... Threads: Jacky Liang / @jjackyliang : This is every software developer's Chernobyl event X: @anthropicai : We're rolling out new weekly rate limits for Claude Pro and Max in late August. We estimate they'll apply to less than 5% of subscribers based on current usage. [image] @anthropicai : Some of the biggest Claude Code fans are running it continuously in the background, 24/7. These uses are remarkable and we want to enable them. But a few outlying cases are very costly to support. For example, one user consumed tens of thousands in model usage on a $200 plan. Darren / @darrenangle : *sniff* *pulls shirt* You know, this is perfect - *gestures wildly* - this is the ultimate perversity of capitalism at its purest. Here we have Anthropic, this company claiming to build “AI for humanity,” and what do they do? They create this digital cocaine, this Claude Code, [image] Amjad Masad / @amasad : “Unlimited usage” AI subscription plans are fundamentally unsustainable for agentic products because no matter how cheap token prices get, users will want to consume more. @cline : “Inference is not the business model” via @latentspacepod [video] Charlie Holtz / @charliebholtz : I kinda feel bad about how hard we're gonna work Claude the next 30 days Jason Liu / @jxnlco : Next month, we're introducing new weekly rate limits for Claude subscribers, affecting less than 5% of users based on current usage patterns. @cline : The pattern is predictable: 1. launch with “unlimited” access 2. power users take you at your word 3. economics hit hard 4. add hidden limits 5. users discover limits when work stops Subscription models for AI inference don't work. The math always wins. @cline : Imagine if gas stations didn't tell you how many gallons you were getting. The station built your car, but you can't look under the hood. That's the inference subscription dilemma in one image, and the reality of selling commodities on subscription models. 🧵 Tae Kim / @firstadopter : Tell me you are running out of compute without telling me you are running out of compute @bantg : you only have until august 28 to build your dream, after that it's over @anthropicai : From August 28, we'll introduce new weekly limits that'll mitigate these problems while impacting as few customers as possible. We'll also support Max plan users buying additional usage at standard API rates, if they choose to. Kevin Kwok / @kevinakwok : This reminds me of when friend at Uber told me about the day they shut down the free rides for all employees program and TK pointing out one dudes insane use of it Ryan Jones / @rjonesy : @kevinakwok We have some insane usage stories too. Users manually tracking 300 flights a day. Or importing 100k+ past flights. Or searching 2000 times but never tracking a flight. Where there's unlimited there's abusers. @pli_cachete : Horrible. We're all trying to find the guy who did this. [image] @macrocephalopod : My bad everyone, I was running Claude 24/7 on 128 threads, getting it to compute hashes to mine Bitcoin. Seems like Anthropoc are shutting down that particular arbitrage now so figured I might as well share the alpha 😮💨 Nick Dobos / @nickadobos : Y'all out here bankrupting poor Claude “one user consumed tens of thousands in model usage on a $200 plan.” I'm surprised it took so long seeing how expensive opus is via API Will Brown / @willccbb : imagine if gas stations didn't tell you how many gallons you were getting because car mileage was a trade secret and the gas station owned the car companies and you could either buy way overpriced gas per-mile or a monthly “max gas subscription” that turns off randomly sometimes Ben / @benhylak : not even anthropic has enough capital to continue subsidizing claude code Melvin Vivas / @donvito : I guess good things never last 😥 @AnthropicAI applying new weekly rate limits to plans which will affect Claude Code users Overall weekly limit that resets every 7 days Claude Opus 4 weekly limit that resets every 7 days Oh well... [image] Povilas Korop / @povilaskorop : Here we go, I knew that Anthropic has to do something with their outages. Claude Code just got too popular. And Pro plan allowed too much usage for $17/month. So yeah, expected change. [image] @theo : Called it. Claude code is getting way stricter limits on the $200/month plan. No free lunch lasts forever. [image] Ian Nuttall / @iannuttall : for what it's worth if I can get up to 40 hours of opus 4 a week I think these limits will be fine I don't think we should be saying RIP to Claude Code just yet! [image] Nikunj Kothari / @nikunj : PMF so good you need to introduce weekly limits.. but this is going to severely limit every developer's use of Claude Code 🥺 [image] Paul L. Shell III / @paulshelldev : I have it falling back to API if I hit the limits. In the last week, roughly: Claude Code - 30h Opus for planning - 500h Sonnet for execution GitHub Copilot - 100h GPT 4.1 execution with Beast Mode I know, I'm slacking. Took some time off for my bro's 21st bday. Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi : 2/ It is always a bummer when extreme users cause a system to put limits in place. We called this the “baby monitor” user for Skype video or the “Napster” user for the original OneDrive. Very small number of ppl who created a use pattern we did not intend to support. Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi : Anthropic unveils new rate limits to curb Claude Code power users https://techcrunch.com/... // I don't know how coding does not become the first AI-first app that moves to client inference. Devs can afford the hardware and it pays for itself quickly. 1/2 Forums: r/technews : Seriously, Why Do Some AI Chatbot Subscriptions Cost More Than $200? Msmash / Slashdot : Claude Code Users Hit With Weekly Rate Limits
As expected, Anthropic is introducing weekly limits, after increasing costs dramatically on Cursor in late May/early June, and as I reported a few weeks ago, Claude code was costing anthropic remarkable amounts. I told you!!! — www.wheresyoured.at/anthropic- is... [embedded p…
Why do some AI chatbot subscriptions cost so much damn money? (Like, hundreds of dollars a month!) — Vibes, apparently. From @thiccreese.bsky.social — www.wired.com/story/seriou...
Good piece on the rationale behind charging $200 a month for a subscription, though I'd add the other reason is that power users are costing these companies so much money and $200 a month is *closer* to making actual money, even though they're still unprofitable — www.wheresyou…
“Why the $200 price tag, though? White declined to discuss specifics about the economics of Claude Max's pricing and whether Anthropic is losing money on the plan. 'It's a very dynamic environment.'” @thiccreese.bsky.social on the new era of $200 software subs www.wired.com/sto…
We're rolling out new weekly rate limits for Claude Pro and Max in late August. We estimate they'll apply to less than 5% of subscribers based on current usage. [image]
Some of the biggest Claude Code fans are running it continuously in the background, 24/7. These uses are remarkable and we want to enable them. But a few outlying cases are very costly to support. For example, one user consumed tens of thousands in model usage on a $200 plan.
*sniff* *pulls shirt* You know, this is perfect - *gestures wildly* - this is the ultimate perversity of capitalism at its purest. Here we have Anthropic, this company claiming to build “AI for humanity,” and what do they do? They create this digital cocaine, this Claude Code, [i…
“Unlimited usage” AI subscription plans are fundamentally unsustainable for agentic products because no matter how cheap token prices get, users will want to consume more.
The pattern is predictable: 1. launch with “unlimited” access 2. power users take you at your word 3. economics hit hard 4. add hidden limits 5. users discover limits when work stops Subscription models for AI inference don't work. The math always wins.
Imagine if gas stations didn't tell you how many gallons you were getting. The station built your car, but you can't look under the hood. That's the inference subscription dilemma in one image, and the reality of selling commodities on subscription models. 🧵
From August 28, we'll introduce new weekly limits that'll mitigate these problems while impacting as few customers as possible. We'll also support Max plan users buying additional usage at standard API rates, if they choose to.
This reminds me of when friend at Uber told me about the day they shut down the free rides for all employees program and TK pointing out one dudes insane use of it
@kevinakwok We have some insane usage stories too. Users manually tracking 300 flights a day. Or importing 100k+ past flights. Or searching 2000 times but never tracking a flight. Where there's unlimited there's abusers.
My bad everyone, I was running Claude 24/7 on 128 threads, getting it to compute hashes to mine Bitcoin. Seems like Anthropoc are shutting down that particular arbitrage now so figured I might as well share the alpha 😮💨
Y'all out here bankrupting poor Claude “one user consumed tens of thousands in model usage on a $200 plan.” I'm surprised it took so long seeing how expensive opus is via API
imagine if gas stations didn't tell you how many gallons you were getting because car mileage was a trade secret and the gas station owned the car companies and you could either buy way overpriced gas per-mile or a monthly “max gas subscription” that turns off randomly sometimes
I guess good things never last 😥 @AnthropicAI applying new weekly rate limits to plans which will affect Claude Code users Overall weekly limit that resets every 7 days Claude Opus 4 weekly limit that resets every 7 days Oh well... [image]
Here we go, I knew that Anthropic has to do something with their outages. Claude Code just got too popular. And Pro plan allowed too much usage for $17/month. So yeah, expected change. [image]
for what it's worth if I can get up to 40 hours of opus 4 a week I think these limits will be fine I don't think we should be saying RIP to Claude Code just yet! [image]
I have it falling back to API if I hit the limits. In the last week, roughly: Claude Code - 30h Opus for planning - 500h Sonnet for execution GitHub Copilot - 100h GPT 4.1 execution with Beast Mode I know, I'm slacking. Took some time off for my bro's 21st bday.
2/ It is always a bummer when extreme users cause a system to put limits in place. We called this the “baby monitor” user for Skype video or the “Napster” user for the original OneDrive. Very small number of ppl who created a use pattern we did not intend to support.
Anthropic unveils new rate limits to curb Claude Code power users https://techcrunch.com/... // I don't know how coding does not become the first AI-first app that moves to client inference. Devs can afford the hardware and it pays for itself quickly. 1/2