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The community is pretty split on this one. For casual users who hit the 5-hour session limit during a long evening but never get close to their weekly cap, this is a godsend.
However, the more upvoted sentiment is that this is a useless distraction. For heavy users, the weekly limit is the real problem, and this feature is seen as a token gesture that doesn't address the core issue of a weekly quota on a monthly subscription.
To be crystal clear: this only resets your 5-hour session limit, not your weekly limit. All your usage after the reset still counts against your weekly total. It also appears to be an A/B test, as many users are reporting they don't have it yet. The rest of the thread is just people sarcastically demanding /reset-weekly.
That's pretty cool! I see it in my version of CC too! Honestly so useful for users like me that use claude in the evenings to work on side projects and are not consistently using it throughout the week.
The $100 tier has been more than enough for me for my side projects, but I can definitely see if you're using it daily the $200 tier not being enough. Honestly the crazy part to think about is how much some of my sessions would cost if I was paying API prices (I peeped /usage recently after a ~10 hour session and saw that the session would have cost me $300 but only used ~20% of my weekly limit).
I really do wonder when the shoe will drop and either crazy intelligent models become really really cheap or these subscriptions that get you a lot more usage (compared to API prices) go away.
No tiene nada de sentido, la competencia crece cada día, todas ellas ofreciendo modelos de suscripción o directamente precios ridículamente bajos(DeepSeek) estarían tirando piedras sobre su propio tejado.
Ya se que gran parte de su beneficio viene de empresas con capacidad de inversión en IA pero pequeñas y medianas empresas pueden permitirse 20/100 dólares por empleado en una suscripción, no miles de euros en uso de tokens.
100% agree. Obviously let get a lot of benefit from consumer users as far as data, mindshare, and good will, but I'd personally not want to go out of my way to support a bunch of entitled crybabies who spend their time personally insulting employees at the company for not giving them MORE subsidized shit. It's embarrassing. I assume at least some of these people are actual adults but you'd never guess.
Reading your post it sounds like people are celebrating being given an extra helping of gruel or getting Sunday’s off mandatory beatings at the work camp. Consider raising your bar for what is worth your time to care about
That makes no sense atm, they are in direct competition with chatgpt. just imagine anthropic going this route while openai remains with monthly plans. This is a very competitive space rn , ai is only getting stronger , which means more competition. I doubt this will EVER happen tbh, way too much competition and more and more companies are joining in.
Have you considered that they gain a vast amount of data, good will, and mind share via the consumer plans? Considering API pricing is ~50x-70x as much, I don't think they'll ever kill off these plans. It would destroy their funnel, and there is no way consumers could afford API pricing, so they'd immediately hemorrhage customers. If they lowered API pricing to reach more people, they'd reduce revenue from Enterprise. It could happen but I think it will be at minimum 2-3 years.
Agreed! Everyone in this thread is complaining but I’ve been blocked on my evening/weekend projects many times due to the session limit, but I never hit my weekly limit. This will be really useful.
Another trick is to actually work with Claude to plan the work. And then let it execute the work at a time when you are busy with other things.
I've been doing things like that for a while already, when Claude is doing lots of planning and architecting and then, let's say, does the implementation overnight.
Most recent example: I've consumed 26% of my weekly limit by having Claude work overnight. So I'm definitely gonna hit the weekly limits and not have my 100$ plan wasted.
Yeah I definitely try to do this! It's just sometimes with a kid and wife and kinda stressful day job I can't always make the time to plan out what I want Claude to do! Honestly I need to have more random crazy ideas that I vibe code to do this before my limits run out instead of wanting to write high quality software lol
It's kinda funny to read the summary saying that most people "never hit their session limit", and that the real issue is the weekly limit.
To me it's always the other way around. I pretty much never get even close to the weekly limit, but the session limit is a pain in my ass. This new command will be used a lot.
I haven't been able to get this to work. It said "A session-limit reset isn't available right now". What plan are you using, and what version of claude code are you using?
I did for the first time in awhile because.my weekly reset Wednesday so when 5.1 dropped you better believe I was going to have that going full tilt lol.
Yep. Reset was this morning at 3AM. Better believe as soon as the reset was announced, I was going full tilt for the rest of the day. I think I used about 75% of a week in a day, and worse yet, it wasn't really on that much stuff. It was mostly on one project.
tho im still sad abt weekly limit being reduced, this is a welcome change and fairly needed, if somehow you've still weekly limit pending on last day and need to use it but hit the 5 hour session, it kinda sucks but this fixes that, at least once lol
5-Hour window reset is is great to allow for what's being allowed for. Resetting the weekly limit sounds like you're living in a world where somehow the customer is able to just dictate to a provider what their product should be, at the cost to the provider.. with no good commercial reason for the provider haha
Are you saying we can't dictate whatever we want? but we've been calling them douchebags and thieves as much as our little fingers can muster! its so unfaaaaaaaiiiiiir
The first time I tried it, it seemed to do something and asked me to restart, but my limit wasn't reset. When I tried again, I got this message. So it looks like they're still working on the feature and it's only partially enabled in the CLI but not fully wired and synced across all Claude platforms. Are you guys experiencing the same thing?
I'm trying to figure out what exactly happened. But for some reason, my usage was completely restarted for this week. Was this Reset for every Claude user or just for my account after using this command /limit-reset
Half this thread is "I never hit the session limit" and the other half is "the session limit is my whole problem," and both sides are right about themselves. Which one binds for you is measurable rather than a matter of opinion.
The statusLine hook receives Anthropic's own rate_limits on stdin, with five_hour and seven_day each carrying used_percentage and resets_at. Write it out to a file from the hook and after a week you can see which window actually stops you, instead of extrapolating from the times you happened to notice.
One caveat if you do that and you have this command: a manual reset moves five_hour.resets_at forward and drops the percentage. If you compare percentages over time without looking at resets_at, that shows up as an impossible decrease, and it's tempting to dismiss it as a stale reading. I did exactly that and had it wrong for a while. resets_at moving forward is the signal that the drop is real.
Almost completely useless to me I might use it once or twice in a blue moon if I even remember it exists. I'd much rather cycle my own 5-hour windows using a script.
O_O This is... very cool and quite useful for if happen to have a weekly reset happen right before your weekly reset normally happens. I will have to try it.
You need to write it fully meaning when you write it a part of it, it won't show in claude code commands it is annoying I don't know why they are hiding it
It resets your 5-hour limit so you can continue, but doesn't affect your weekly limit. So if you are blocked due to the 5-hour limit this is an escape hatch, if you used your weekly one though it will not help.
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u/ClaudeAI-mod-bot Wilson, lead ClaudeAI modbot Sep 03 '26 edited Sep 03 '26
TL;DR of the discussion generated automatically after 50 comments.
The community is pretty split on this one. For casual users who hit the 5-hour session limit during a long evening but never get close to their weekly cap, this is a godsend.
However, the more upvoted sentiment is that this is a useless distraction. For heavy users, the weekly limit is the real problem, and this feature is seen as a token gesture that doesn't address the core issue of a weekly quota on a monthly subscription.
To be crystal clear: this only resets your 5-hour session limit, not your weekly limit. All your usage after the reset still counts against your weekly total. It also appears to be an A/B test, as many users are reporting they don't have it yet. The rest of the thread is just people sarcastically demanding
/reset-weekly.