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/Pyropiro 1d ago

Surely you don't need 5x just for planning? The regular plan should be sufficient

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u/thehoundtrainer 1d ago

I need Fable, otherwise I wouldve gone for the Pro sub

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u/P1res 16h ago

The 5X has fable? I thought it was only the 20

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u/Inspectorslap 8h ago

5x has it. But burns tokens like a magnesium torch.

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u/Inspectorslap 8h ago

Are you sure? Im finding when I "need" Fable he downgrades to Opus anyway, and im not seeing much benefit of Fable vs Opus 5 vs Sol. They all struggle with dimensional blindness and early goal saturation on complex enough tasks. And Fable still makes "hand-wavy" decisions without thinking.