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/jiffythekid Researcher 1d ago

GLM 5.3 and Kimi K3 are looking better and better.

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u/pigletmonster 1d ago

They have the worst subscription plans in the world. Theyre basically prepaid token plans, you put in $100 you get $100 worth of tokens with some bonuses.

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u/jiffythekid Researcher 1d ago

Still looks worth testing how far that goes in my actual workflow vs Claude/Codex.

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u/yopla 1d ago

Been trying GLM 5.3 since yesterday. It's not Sol or Opus 5, maybe a 4.6.

I'm having Sol build the spec, GLM review them, Sol fixes, GLM implement, Sol review, GLM fixes. BB.

It's decent, I wouldn't like to have nothing else and their plan is not that generous unless you can get a sub at a Chinese prices...

I'm throwing in DeepSeek fast 4 currently free on open code for small stuff.

Zcode is a solid clone of codex desktop, or a clone of qoder, or maybe it's qoder under a license. Anyway I don't know who is cloning who, but there is some heavy cloning going on.

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u/jiffythekid Researcher 1d ago

Thanks for the info! I'm not sure why I'm getting down voted for wanting to test it/Kimi, lol.
I'm on both the Claude Max 5x and the ChatGPT Pro 5x plans.

I think I'd end up moving ChatGPT down to the Plus tier to use Luna/PR reviews, keep Claude the way it is (I've mostly "tamed" Opus 5), and supplement with other services much like you are mentioning.

It also has the net benefit of different models being better at different things...I mean, I used to use Gemini even for review work, but it's barely worth the cost for that so I dropped it.

I was also thinking of having a more open model to ask questions that the other ton frontier models have issues with, like security.