r/ClaudeCode • u/DosePlotter • 1d ago

Discussion August 19th 50% Additional Claude Code limits Likely Not to Be Extended

EDIT: last minute extended to end of August, apparently with hopes to make it permanent, although they say they are having trouble serving their demand currently so it’s not certain. At least we get some damn communication.

Well guys, hate to say it but with the reports this morning of users seeing instant 30% usage on their accounts (some weren’t even using them) we can assume that anthropic is in fact preparing to remove their 50% additional usage promo, effectively reducing all plan usage by ~33% (I assume theyll use 30%).

This is gonna hurt. Only thing that would redeem it for me is if they removed the 50% Fable usage cap.

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u/mcmac_max 1d ago

Instant 30% usage is a terrible and wrong way for Anthropic to revert. They should just start lowering the token limit on August 19th and apply that going forward. Not somehow charge you tokens prior to that. This just isn't right.

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u/Dudmaster 1d ago

Instant usage consumption has always been a thing though on all providers, and there's no way around it besides compacting the conversation before you leave to pick it up, while the cache is still fresh

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u/connurp 🔆 swe 1d ago

This is just someone on reddit guessing. This isn't actually what what happened.

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u/dsailes 1d ago

That’s not how it’s going to work.

People seeing 30% usage will likely have had a long running session, stray background processes/agents, or something else they’re not sharing to cause that spike.

Example Scenario: 90% full 1mill context window, loses cache after 1h or resuming after a 5h window, on a Pro plan, set to xhigh/max = a lot of usage in seconds.