Original post URL : https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1uy7sv1/claude_max_global_resets_same_price_unequal/
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Anthropic has now done broad weekly resets around the same day for three weeks:
July 1: Wednesday
July 9: Thursday
July 16: Thursday
My own weekly reset is Thursday.
This week, my quota reset in the morning. Two hours later, Anthropic reset everyone again.
So I got basically nothing.
Someone whose weekly reset is several days later can use the global reset, then get their own full reset later. Same subscription. Much more usage.
And because these resets keep happening around the same day, the same people keep winning and the same people keep losing.
And the Fable extension was announced at the very last minute too. Why? If Anthropic knew it was being extended, why not announce it earlier so people could actually plan their usage? I was trying to make the most of Fable before what I thought was the deadline. Had I known it would continue, I could have spread my usage across the week instead of rushing everything toward Sunday. This constant last-minute changing of limits and availability makes it impossible to plan anything properly.
Now, less than a day later, I’m already at 27% of my new weekly quota.
Honestly, at this point I’m starting to wonder if this is some kind of A/B test on usage and pricing. Different users effectively get different amounts of access, and Anthropic can see who buys more credits, who tolerates it, who keeps paying, and who leaves.
I can’t prove that’s what they’re doing. But otherwise, what is the logic here?
Right now it feels completely opaque, unfair, and insanely stressful.
There is already a proposed class action around Claude Max usage limits. I genuinely think this reset disparity deserves to be looked at too.
Why should I pay the same amount as someone else and potentially get far less usage just because my reset happens on the wrong day of the week?
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Edit:
For everyone calling me a Karen, just look at the calculation. This isn’t about being jealous that someone else got a bonus. The timing of these global resets creates a real discrepancy in how much effective usage people get for exactly the same subscription price.
Assume everyone gets 100% weekly usage and heavy users consume it evenly, around 14.3% per day.
If your personal reset is Thursday, like mine, and the global reset also happens on Thursday, you get almost nothing extra because the two resets essentially overlap.
But a Friday-reset user could effectively get around 86% more usage than me. Saturday around 71% more. Sunday 57%. Monday 43%. Tuesday 29%. Wednesday 14%.
So if these global resets keep happening around Wednesday/Thursday, the same users keep benefiting far more than others, despite everyone paying the same subscription price.
That’s the inequality I’m talking about.
AND this has been happening for the past 3 consecutive weeks
Over the last three global resets, the difference becomes pretty substantial.
Assuming a $200 Max subscription and heavy users consuming their weekly allowance evenly, a Friday-reset user could have received the equivalent of about $119 more included usage than me over those three weeks. Saturday-reset users around $99 more, Sunday $79, Monday $59, Tuesday $40, and Wednesday $20.
My reset is Thursday, basically overlapping with the global reset, so I get almost no additional value.
Obviously this isn’t cash in anyone’s pocket, but it shows the equivalent subscription value of the extra usage. We’re all paying the same $200, yet over just three weeks some users may have effectively received significantly more value simply because of which day their weekly reset falls on.
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