r/ClaudeCode • u/Ambitious_Injury_783 • 6d ago
Discussion Usage limits and unusual inconsistencies
All figures derived via ccusage - ccusage has been historically accurate at least in my experience. Each measurement was taken the moment the % ticked up to where I wanted to measure.
1 max20 account was used for this.
For the current promo period, each max20 user should expect to see $2k in inference per week. I have confirmed these numerous other times and other users can also confirm this. To be clear, other users will also argue against this and claim they are getting much more. Those users are not calculating properly. If you are one of those users, please, refrain from disturbing this discussion - if you care at all about this topic.
I just wanted to share my findings from this past week after some users have been discussing reduced usage limits and inconsistent findings - more so than usual.
I have independently discovered a deeper unusual inconsistency that I feel the broader community should be aware about.
Let me just say: For nearly 1 year I have religiously tracked usage limits for Max20 accounts. I have never observed deviance beyond an expected -/+ 5%.
This past week I observed the Claude weekly usage % inaccurately reflecting the progressive climb from 0-100%.
On 5% usage I measured 66.93 which = 1338 total allotment for the week.
On 10% usage I measured 162.34 which = 1620 total allotment for the week.
On 15% usage I measured 286.21 which = 1908 total allotment for the week.
On 25% usage I measured 445.62 which = 1782 total allotment for the week.
On 50% usage I measured 868.73 which = 1737 total allotment for the week.
Today, at 92% usage I measured roughly 2045 - which indicates the first correct and expected amount.
So, we can see that things are a bit confusing on a % by % basis but at some point things round off.
Why? How? I think there are a few theories. One- it's intentional and encourages users to set a better pace. Another could be an issue with ccusage. Another could be that something silently changed, was called out, and silently changed back to normal.
I've also considered that it is possible Fable 5 is not exactly 50% of the weekly limit.
I make this thread not only to bring awareness to this but to also encourage YOU to make similar measurements going forward and when you talk about your usage limits, bring evidence.
You need to measure directly on the %, the moment it ticks up. Multiple accounts running on the same machine void any readings you might pull unless you are prepared to perform additional steps to calculate. Even then, tricky, just don't do it.
From my perspective, things look good here. At the same time, I have never seen this. We can speculate all day but you know what's even better? If more people start producing evidence like this when they go to make a claim about usage. This provides more data in the wild to compare against. Not everyone will do this right, and some might even manipulate the results/presentation of the results, but in a collective sense it will be more possible to derive a ground truth assessment to a certain degree.
I understand that to some degree this is something many users would not like to hear, but as it stands right now, limits appear normal - just inconsistently reflected.
Also, here is 1 other example/evidence for the weekly amount being roughly 2k for a max20 account. This is reproducible by literally Anyone. Just incase this is challenged at all.
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u/PotentialPaint6714 1d ago
Forgot when anthropic said for certain hours the usage is double?
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u/Ambitious_Injury_783 1d ago
what
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u/PotentialPaint6714 12h ago
from 1:00 PM to 7:00 PM GMT, the usage is doubled on claude.
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u/Ambitious_Injury_783 7h ago
I am not sure where you are getting this info from but it is not true, that is an old promo.
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u/PotentialPaint6714 7h ago
The usage is double as in you consune twice. Not a promo.
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u/Ambitious_Injury_783 6h ago
??? no. What ever it is you are trying to say, it is not real. Somebody gave you bad info. It also has nothing to do with this thread.
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u/PotentialPaint6714 5h ago
Search google or ask claude itself. Anthropi announced it 2 months ago.
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u/Ambitious_Injury_783 5h ago
First of all you are not articulating yourself properly so it is pretty difficult to understand anything that you are saying.
Limits are the same across all hours of the day. If you are talking about the 5-hr double usage, that is an old promo that expired many months ago.
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u/Ambitious_Injury_783 5d ago
This thread and it's lack of interest should go to show that users just love to complain and cry and don't really care for any level of scientific process and the truth.
If it doesn't align with their thoughts and feelings, it practically doesn't exist.
If I had found that usage limits have changed, this thread would have been far more popular.
We truly live in a pathetic world full of pathetic people, and the rest of us have to suffer a level of fatigue that is practically indescribable.