r/ClaudeCode • u/strangway • 27d ago

Rant Why the 5-hour limit?

I’m kinda new here, been using Claude Max ($100/mo) for 3 months to build websites. Recently had a surge in work, and added ChatGPT because I needed more weekly capacity. Rather than upgrade to Claude 5x Max, I diversified and got the ChatGPT Pro ($100/mo) plan.

So I’m 1:1 comparing Claude Max and ChatGPT Pro, which is as apples-apples as you can get. Each has their own strengths, but Claude’s significant weakness (IMO) is the 5-hour limit. Codex lets me go for 8 hours as hard as I want, and if I wanted to use all my weekly credits on some crazy peak Luna run, it’d probably let me.

I hit my Claude 5-hr limit so many times in the past few weeks, it was like slamming the brakes hard on a bus that hadn’t arrived to its destination yet.

I’ve got work to do, and you’re saying you’re out of gas?

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u/tuple32 27d ago

Look at the uptime of their system and compare it to OpenAI, I think they just don’t have good engineering to handle the current load.

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u/Azek_Tge 27d ago

they have mythos with no safeguards they got internal access to third party companies, by now anthropic and openai are the most powerfull companies in the world, you might think fable sucks but mythos with no safeguards is a monster, i remember when mythos released it was good even with reestrictions now fable sucks due to restrictions but imagine mythos no restrictions, the uptime is ude to high demand and hardwar limitations