Overview
- Anthropic will enforce weekly rate limits for its $20 Pro plan and $100 and $200 Max plans beginning August 28.
- Subscribers will face two new seven-day caps—one on total Claude Code use and another on its most advanced Opus 4 model—while retaining existing five-hour reset limits.
- The measures are designed to curb nonstop 24/7 background usage and unauthorized account sharing or resale by a small subset of power users.
- Fewer than 5% of subscribers are expected to reach the new weekly limits and Max plan users can purchase additional capacity at standard API rates.
- The controls respond to at least seven outages on Claude Code this past month and mirror similar usage restrictions by other AI coding-tool providers.