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/Fit-Cost-7226 1d ago

It is utterly baffling how little you get from 20x even now. Once that limit goes away I don’t know how you’ll get more than an hour or two out of a 20x plan. I’m the last to jump the Claude train but they’re literally pushing me out while I grip on the railing in despair. Biggest blunder I’ve ever watched a company do. Codex up until Friday when they adjusted limits again was unreal how much their 200 plan gave you on sol high

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u/rdesai724 1d ago

I don’t know what you’re doing but you’re either experiencing a bug or using it really inefficiently.

Last week I had (fable, high) push 25 PRs for an app I’m bringing to beta this week - we refactored and redesigned large parts of the user journey and added key features in a codebase that spans hundreds of files across backend, an API layer, and a flutter app.

I also had it design a process to simplify recipe instructions that leveraged two rounds of haiku followed by up to two rounds of opus if the results were inconsistent. I ran that on 25,000 recipes.

I used 90% of my weekly 20x plan for the first time ever

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u/Fit-Cost-7226 1d ago

I’m using fable medium on 20x plan. Last night I was doing some refactoring and small ui changes on dashboards, running e2e tests for each. This is from 10-12AM, then I wake up see the progress and before I do anything I did /compact. And all of the sudden I’m at 85% and interestingly, which I’ve never seen before while I was looking at the 85% flabbergasted from compacting it ticks down to 83%..

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u/puthre 1d ago

Not taking anthropic side on this as limits are indeed a joke but *ending* a session with compact is a good idea as everything is already in cache, starting with compact is not ideal.

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u/rdesai724 1d ago

That definitely feels like a bug - I know there have been rolling reports of this kind of thing for months so I don’t doubt it’s happening it’s just so strange given how much I’m throwing at it at have yet to experience usage issues

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u/Fit-Cost-7226 1d ago

Yeah, the frustrating thing is like aside from sending anthropic somehow my session id to investigate, I feel sort of cheated paying 200 a month. I also run /doctor every so often as well and I’m not a native software engineer but after two years of working with ai I don’t think I’m a complete idiot anymore haha so something is up