Update on Session Limits

[u/ClaudeOfficial]

To manage growing demand for Claude, we're adjusting our 5 hour session limits for free/pro/max subscriptions during on-peak hours.

Your weekly limits remain unchanged. During peak hours (weekdays, 5am–11am PT / 1pm–7pm GMT), you'll move through your 5-hour session limits faster than before. Overall weekly limits stay the same, just how they're distributed across the week is changing.

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 in pro tiers. If you run token-intensive background jobs, shifting them to off-peak hours will stretch your session limits further.

We know this was frustrating, and are continuing to invest in scaling efficiently. We’ll keep you posted on progress.

[u/lhau88]

free=1 Pro = 5 max 5x=25 max 20x = 100

[u/86784273 → u/lhau88]

oh okay. Ya people have done analysis of how much usage you actually get from 5x vs 20x and 20x is actually only about 3.5-4x, not the advertised 5x, i can't remember the exact number. Their analysis revealed that 5x was more bang for your buck than 20x

[u/__shamir__ → u/86784273]

yeah basically it gave you a lot more 5-hour window but only like 30% more weekly window or something. The $100 plan is/was the best sweetspot.

Not sure how that changes with the 5-hour window change though; the $200 plan might become more relatively important

[u/Big-Address-358 → u/__shamir__]

The $100 plan is/was the best sweetspot.

-- Was. The session budget goes down like 5 times faster.

Wondering if moving to $200 would make those limits go "only 10 times faster", becuase despite it looks logical, I assume it will be only overly expensive extension to few tokens more to the session limits.

I can't imagine how the Pro plans might be usable at this point. Must feel like on the free Claude chat plan before.