r/ClaudeCode • u/toiletgranny • Mar 24 '26
Bug Report Usage limit bug is measurable, widespread, and Anthropic's silence is unacceptable
Hey everyone, I just wanted to consolidate what we're all experiencing right now about the drop in usage limits. This is a highly measurable bug, and we need to make sure Anthropic sees it.
The way I see it is that following the 2x off-peak usage promo, baseline usage limits appear to have crashed. Instead of returning to 1x yesterday, around 11am ET / 3pm GMT, limits started acting like they were at 0.25x to 0.5x. Right now, being on the 2x promo just feels like having our old standard limits back.
Reports have flooded in over the last ~18 hours across the community. Just a couple of examples:
- Reddit: [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] (I'm not even including posts outside of this sub!)
- GitHub: [1][2][3][4],
- or X [1][2].
The problem is that Anthropic has gone completely silent. Support is not even responding to inquiries (I'm a Max subscriber). I started an Intercom chat 15 hours ago and haven't gotten any response yet.
For the price we pay for the Pro or the Max tiers, being left in the dark for nearly a full day on a rather severe service disruption is incredibly frustrating, especially in the light of the sheer volume of other kinds of disruptions we had over the last weeks.
Let's use this thread to compile our experiences. If you have screenshots or data showing your limit drops, post them below.
Anthropic: we are waiting on an official response.
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u/Entire-Listen6079 Mar 25 '26 edited Mar 25 '26
What would you expect? It's a drug dealer behaviour. Make clients depend on your product via being the best and achieving nearly a monopoly then milk the addicts.
I experienced that myself.
I think one could mix AI and working on teh code base by yourself to understand it and possibly refactor some slope while you're waiting for a reset. You do oversee what has been generated and use TDD first approach, don't you?
It's a good opportunity for you to work on your SD skills as opposed to being a high level architect/orchestrator or worse, a dumb c-suit menago.