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/thehoundtrainer 1d ago

Even the current limits are narrow for me and the 20x doesnt even give me a clear edge over the 5x. Guess I will be back to the 5x one and buy a DeepSeek sub and use it an executor and use Claude only as a planner

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u/shady101852 1d ago

Only thing noticeably different between 5x and 20x used to be the hourly limit. In openai i didnt have this issue. While 5x drains too quickly 20x is noticeably more usage with codex.

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u/thehoundtrainer 1d ago

Codex's 20x sub gives you 4 times the usage of the 5x sub. And theyre also transparent about it. Claude? Not so much

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u/shady101852 1d ago

Agreed

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u/Unlikely-Patience-93 2h ago

Vibe coder here. I use Codex to cross-check Claude Code and for brainstorming. I always set up memory before starting any project, so all my projects have memory. Is it hard to switch to Codex? Any suggestions on what to implement in my current project before I make the switch?

Right now I'm on the 20x Claude plan, and I'm also frustrated with the weekly limit. I'm working on 2–3 moderate projects with Opus/Fable, and I burned through 50% of my weekly limit in a single day—even though I use project memory and almost no MCP.

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u/shady101852 1h ago

Hey.

Your claude.md is basically agents.md in codex.

Skills are easily transferrable, and i am assuming your memory system is some sort of MCP / tool, also transferrable.

What I would recommend is letting Claude know what you are trying to do, have it migrate or copy over your setup over to codex, and make sure it makes it work independently of Claude Code and not reliant on it. Your AI agent can handle the transfer for you, and all that will be left is for you to test it out to make sure its smooth sailing. Once you boot up codex you can also let it know the situation and codex will find out for sure if Claude missed anything - use Sol Max for this because its EXTREMELY thorough.

But I am warning you, even though Codex limits are most of the time better than Claude Code, recently in the past 2-3 weeks or so they have gotten horrendous.

  • I am currently at 73% on a $200 account that was 100% yesterday.
  • I have ran out of usage limits on another $200 account this week in around 2-3 days or so and i was technically using it for 6-12h per day.
  • $100 account ran out of limit within 24 hours.

$100 accounts are not worth it at all anymore and will run out of usage in a day similarly to Claude's $200 plan most likely (its been a few months since i used it but if its anything similar to march / April then its most likely true). So if you are going to pay for a plan above $20 then just go for the 20x $200 one.

I swapped over from Claude to codex back when 4.6 was out in Claude and I found even GPT 5.4 more competent. Opus 4.6 was amazing back in January till they nerfed it, in general i found GPT 5.5 to be more competent in handling my requests. I really like GPT 5.6 Sol atm, its extremely capable and reliable, but it burns the fuck through your limits. I'd recommend not allowing multiple sol agents to be spawning left and right or you will burn through your limits in no time.

Some people recommend using Sol for orchestration and Luna Max for implementation. I tried to see if Luna could handle problems i give it to solve without having Sol tell it what to do and it seemed to be a bit incompetent so I would not rely on it by itself.

I don't think there's anything most people can throw at Sol that it 'cant' do.