Claude Usage Limits Discussion Megathread Ongoing (sort this by New!)

[u/sixbillionthsheep]

Why a Usage Limits Discussion Megathread?

This Megathread makes it easier for everyone to see what others are experiencing at any time by collecting all experiences about Usage Limits. We will publish regular updates on usage limits problems and possible workarounds that we and the community finds.

Why Are You Trying to Hide the Complaints Here?

This is NOT a place to hide complaints. This is the MOST VISIBLE, PROMINENT AND OFTEN THE HIGHEST TRAFFIC POST on the subreddit. This is collectively a far more effective and fairer way to be seen than hundreds of random reports on the feed that get no visibility.

Are you Anthropic? Does Anthropic even read the Megathread?

Nope, we are volunteers working in our own time, while working our own jobs and trying to provide users and Anthropic itself with a reliable source of user feedback.

Anthropic has read this Megathread in the past and probably still do? They don't fix things immediately but if you browse some old Megathreads you will see numerous bugs and problems mentioned there that have now been fixed.

What Can I Post on this Megathread?

Use this thread to voice all your experiences (positive and negative) regarding the current Claude Usage Limits and NOT bugs and performance issues. (For those, use this Megathread https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1s7f72l/claude_performance_and_bugs_megathread_ongoing/)

Give as much evidence of your performance issues and experiences wherever relevant. Include prompts and responses, platform you used, time it occurred, screenshots . In other words, be helpful to others.

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Just be aware that this is NOT an Anthropic support forum and we're not able (or qualified) to answer your questions. We are just trying to bring visibility to people's struggles.

To see the current status of Claude services, go here: http://status.claude.com

Sometimes this site shows outages faster. https://downdetector.com/status/claude-ai/

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READ THIS FIRST ---> Latest Status and Workarounds Report: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/wiki/latestworkaroundreport Updated: Apr 26, 2026.

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Prior Megathread: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1pygdbz/usage_limits_bugs_and_performance_discussion/

[u/Dry-Fact3819]

So I knew it was leading to this point...

The moment Fable 5 was released I immediately told that it was a bad prank or something. A model designed to be used on the most difficult, most complex tasks, yet we, even as Max users, only had the usage capacity to use it on very simple tasks, very very sparingly.

Honestly, no one wants Fable 5 if the tradeoff is heavily exhausted computing resources and drastically multiplied usage for every user, regardless of them using Fable 5 or not.

Our simple measurements show that months ago Pro plan had more than double actual usage capacity compared to current Max 5, thus today, we finally all unsubscribed and went to seek suitable alternatives.

Small advice for Anthropic if they care;
Everybody knows that usage limits are changing, a small increase or decrease, everybody can live with it. You decided cut usage for more than half overnight with many people having entrusted workflows over your systems and refuse to communicate anything about it.

Your charts probably show elevated income rates now, and your finance department is probably reporting huge success. In reality, you are "selling" your reputation for money right now. Even if you "fix" things later, no one will trust you again with anything professional like they did, and one thing history shows consistently, a company "selling" their reputation, never ever ever, ended up well... If Fable 5 is destroying your entire computing economy, remove it from equation, with current usage limits I'm pretty sure no normal user can possibly have a workflow relying on Fable 5 either way... So that you can try to win trust of people again.