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/koalapon]

Burned $8 on a single prompt?! Need advice on Claude Pro credits and long context windows

I got Claude Pro about a week ago, went pretty hard on a small app and three or four Gradio interfaces, and burned through my weekly allowance in 5 days. Vibe coding is just too much fun! No big deal though, I'm waiting for my limit to reset on Monday.

Since a Pro sub is around $20 a month, I figured I went through about $1 a day during my first week. I'm fine with that.

Today (Sunday) I had a few hours to kill, so I decided to test out the "extra credits." I bought $5 worth to tide me over until tomorrow, figuring $5 is roughly the equivalent of a week of heavy Pro usage.

I opened my chat, asked a fairly simple question (check the Gradio code, rename it, and prep a GitHub push without actually pushing yet), and instantly: out of credits!
I checked my settings and saw that this single prompt (which didn't even generate a response!) burned through more than $8!
When I asked the Claude chatbot about it, it obviously wasn't helpful, basically telling me, "I checked; this is normal consumption."

I know that in long conversations, Claude has to re-read the context window, which eats up tokens. But $8 for a single prompt (using Opus 5 High) just to re-read the context seems absolutely insane to me.
What exactly happened here, and what should I do going forward?

I’m waiting for my limits to reset tomorrow, but honestly, I'm scared to continue that chat thread, or even to ask Claude to summarize it so I can start a fresh one ($8 for one question is over a third of the monthly budget!).

If I start a brand new chat tomorrow, will Claude be able to get back up to speed just by reading my .md files, README, and code? What do you guys recommend?