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Anthropic Imposes Weekly Rate Limits on Claude Pro and Max Plans

The company said the new measures will safeguard service stability by limiting nonstop background use by a small group of heavy subscribers.

Currently, the rate limits for Claude reset every five hours
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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.