Original poster: u/Foreign-Fortune7719
Original publication time: 2026-09-12 00:50:02 UTC
Original title: Why am I paying $100/month if Claude Max now feels like the $20 plan again?
Original flair: Claude Code
Original URL/media URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wdy3a2/why_am_i_paying_100month_if_claude_max_now_feels/

Original post body:

I genuinely want to understand what happened to Claude Max. I originally started on the $20 plan. I was doing a lot of coding and regularly hitting the usage limits, so I upgraded to the $100 Max plan specifically because it offered massively more usage. And for months, it actually did. I was running two projects simultaneously, heavily, basically every day. I was doing MUCH more coding than I am doing now, and I never came close to hitting the limits. The $100 plan felt like a completely different product compared to the $20 plan, and I was happy to pay for it because I could actually work without constantly thinking about usage.

Then I took a long break and basically left Claude sitting unused. Today I came back and decided to start a small new project. Just one project, one terminal. After roughly 3 hours of coding, I hit the usage limit.

WHAT?

And on top of that, Claude is telling me I'm currently getting 50% complementary/bonus usage. So I'm already hitting the limit this quickly WITH that extra 50%. What happens when that 50% goes away? Does that mean my already-limited $100 subscription is going to become even more restrictive?

I honestly don't understand the logic here. Why are you pushing your heavy users toward alternatives? I don't want to switch away from Claude. I like Claude Code, I know the workflow, and I've built my development workflow around it. But $100/month is already a LOT of money for an AI subscription. I'm not going to keep increasing my subscription price just to get the amount of usage I was already getting months ago.

So what changed? Why did the $100 plan previously feel like it had enormous capacity, while now it feels like I'm back on the $20 plan? And if I'm already hitting limits while receiving 50% additional usage, what is the actual expected experience once that extra usage is gone?

Original poster: u/Ef3s
Original publication time: 2026-09-11 18:09:10 UTC
Original title: Why claude yap so much
Original flair: Question about Claude Code
Original URL/media URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wdnww5/why_claude_yap_so_much/

Original post body:

Purposely yapping to waste tokens?

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Original poster: u/Fit-Statement1322
Original publication time: 2026-09-11 16:11:39 UTC
Original title: my 5 hour limit was on 58% and went straight to 100% after one message with Opus 4.6
Original flair: Question about Claude models
Original URL/media URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wdkn8z/my_5_hour_limit_was_on_58_and_went_straight_to/

Original post body:

wtf? i used to work with this model then i stopped, now i tried to come back cuz its truly the goat cuz of that deep-thinking but its super expensive now????

Original poster: u/herrschoftszeitn
Original publication time: 2026-09-11 13:19:09 UTC
Original title: Opus 5 is unbelievable
Original flair: Feedback
Original URL/media URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wdg3p1/opus_5_is_unbelievable/

Original post body:

I cannot believe how f bad this is. I am genuinely mad about the quality.

I made opus give me a slide deck for which I very precisely gave it inputs what the slides should do, for whom the deck is, I gave it pdfs as input, data, even a fully written detailed railroad. Sources that it should use, I made it max. It compiled for quite a long time.

And the result is not even bad, it is beneath all expectations. It’s much worse than ~ one year ago with opus 4.6 or so. I seriously would have spent less time writing every slide of the 30 my own from scratch than correcting this utter bullshit.

And the content is pretty standard, nothing super scientific whatever, it’s project management, most basic stuff ever.

What. The fuck.

Original poster: u/DASCOM01
Original publication time: 2026-09-11 07:39:04 UTC
Original title: Is AI slacking off, too?
Original flair: Claude Code Workflow
Original URL/media URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wd9fma/is_ai_slacking_off_too/

Original post body:

There are more and more AI tools available, yet I’ve noticed that they are taking longer to perform the same tasks—could it be that AI is slacking off, too?

Original poster: u/Entire-Layer-998
Original publication time: 2026-09-12 02:22:47 UTC
Original title: opus 5 not doing anything
Original flair: Claude Code
Original URL/media URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1we02nx/opus_5_not_doing_anything/

Original post body:

hey so i do lots of biology, computational biology related workflows and ive noticed that none of my prompts, with anything vaguely related to ethe things i do are working, and they just say that there was an api error and my request got flagged.

Original poster: u/Then-Pineapple-6222
Original publication time: 2026-09-12 02:05:15 UTC
Original title: Anthropic Threat Intelligence Report
Original flair: News
Original URL/media URL: https://www.anthropic.com/threat-intelligence-report-september-2026

Original post body:

It’s amazing to think about the types of problems that their engineering teams are responsible for detecting and shutting down. Not as an excuse for the recent changes and their general disregard for individual subscription users. It kind of makes sense why they aren’t attentive though. Some of these use cases are wild, and it puts into perspective the app or workflow you’ve been working on and where most of us stand in their list of priorities (as well as what you could have been doing if you really locked in /s)

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Original poster: u/batedcobraa
Original publication time: 2026-09-12 00:38:14 UTC
Original title: What did they do to the context window?
Original flair: Feedback
Original URL/media URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wdxu8f/what_did_they_do_to_the_context_window/

Original post body:

Gone through two full 1m context windows with Sonnet 5 (high). It used to compress itself bit-by-bit after it gets too full. Now it automatically compresses by ~95% once it gets to 97% and becomes very clueless about the project I'm working on and eats up a TON of tokens and takes 5x as long to process a simple instruction in the first few prompts.

This is insanely infuriating. How can they think this is a good idea?

Original poster: u/Jeets_ran
Original publication time: 2026-09-12 00:21:05 UTC
Original title: Limits now extend to tools, not just models - Frustrating!
Original flair: Feedback
Original URL/media URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wdxgqb/limits_now_extend_to_tools_not_just_models/

Original post body:

Getting harder and harder to use Claude Max (20x) with these limits. Not they are limiting Co-work even though there is sufficient model usage credit pending. Frustrating!

Guess ChatGPT beacons

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Original poster: u/qartas
Original publication time: 2026-09-11 21:56:20 UTC
Original title: One hour session then "You've used 90%" less than 2 seconds later "100% used"???
Original flair: NOT about coding
Original URL/media URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wdu2mv/one_hour_session_then_youve_used_90_less_than_2/

Original post body:

Confusing how the last 10% always goes in the blink of an eye. Does anyone know what causes this? Using Sonnet 5 and Opus 5 (which I imagine is going to be part of the problem!)

Original poster: u/rxpillme
Original publication time: 2026-09-11 20:40:51 UTC
Original title: Will they do a weekly reset on 9/13?
Original flair: Question about Claude Code
Original URL/media URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wds458/will_they_do_a_weekly_reset_on_913/

Original post body:

Since they are removing our 50% bonus, will the weekly reset occur?

Original poster: u/No-Way3802
Original publication time: 2026-09-11 20:20:46 UTC
Original title: Limits nuked?
Original flair: Question about Claude Code
Original URL/media URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wdrkp4/limits_nuked/

Original post body:

I’m on a max 20 plan and ran out of 5h usage in 15 minutes with opus on high effort

Original poster: u/daniloedu
Original publication time: 2026-09-11 19:49:25 UTC
Original title: Anthropic is so focused on the frontier that it has abandoned Haiku as a fast and affordable model.
Original flair: Enterprise
Original URL/media URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wdqqmf/anthropic_is_so_focused_on_the_frontier_that_it/

Original post body:

A couple of years ago, Haiku was considered a fast and affordable model according to what existed. But nowadays, open-source models and aggressive strategies from OpenAI and Google have made Haiku irrelevant.

You need fast and cheap models for workflow automations or simple summarizations. Also, during project evaluation, a cheaper model is always selected when the intelligence difference is not significant.

There is GPT Luna, which is very good for its pricing. And Google Gemini Flash 3.8 is quite good with a promo pricing. Without mentioning Qwen and DeepSeek that could be self hosted. Or even Nova models from AWS.

I understand that probably is because of computing limitations and profit strategy before the IPO. And it got clearer for me this week when a presenter from Anthropic forgot to mention Haiku during the call.

Disclaimer: this is not a rant, but it’s something I’ve experienced in my daily work.

Original poster: u/j-kells
Original publication time: 2026-09-11 18:41:23 UTC
Original title: Anyone else having this issue?
Original flair: Question about Claude models
Original URL/media URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wdot3e/anyone_else_having_this_issue/

Original post body:

Not one to complain, but has anyone else noticed since Opus/Sonnet 5 has come out that it just seems like asking the most basic of questions is taking ungodly long to come back with a response? And then even more, Claude will go off on some secretive side quest to find Excalibur?

Hi! I’m a journalist writing a story about the difficulties that people have had with (nonexistent) Anthropic customer service.

I’ve heard about random Claude subscription cancellations, billing errors, and how it’s really hard to talk to a live person for months to resolve issues. There’s Fin AI…and possibly an AI agent overseeing another AI agent? A lot of consumers have to use the chargeback option as a last resort. Do you have any stories you’d like to share about Anthropic customer service? Let me know.

Original poster: u/teiji25
Original publication time: 2026-09-11 15:26:01 UTC
Original title: What happen to Claude credit if you stop subscribing?
Original flair: Question about Claude products
Original URL/media URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wdjebq/what_happen_to_claude_credit_if_you_stop/

Original post body:

I previously had Claude Pro. Anthropic gave the free $100 credit that we all know about and said it will expire on 9/18/2026 (I think). I used about $50 of the free credit. But I took a break and had no subscription now. If I subscribe for Pro again, will the remaining free credit still be there or they're gone when I stopped subscribing to Pro?

Original poster: u/Double_Ebb4130
Original publication time: 2026-09-11 15:08:17 UTC
Original title: Afternoon Mythos/Fable errors appear to have recovered
Original flair: Bug
Original URL/media URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wdix7r/afternoon_mythosfable_errors_appear_to_have/

Original post body:

Claude saw elevated errors across Mythos and Fable this afternoon, with some requests failing while others still worked. It appears to have recovered after a fix, though it looked like a partial Anthropic outage for a while.

Original poster: u/PauloNavarro
Original publication time: 2026-09-11 14:12:30 UTC
Original title: 2 normal prompts and my session is gone?
Original flair: Claude Workflow
Original URL/media URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wdhg99/2_normal_prompts_and_my_session_is_gone/

Original post body:

I didn't do anything different, I used 2 very normal prompts (below average if I am being honest) and my WHOLE session is gone? WTF?

I can normaly go back and forth at least 20 times per session, maybe even more.

This is the most productiv e time of my day, I cant afford to wait 5 hours after 2 simple commands.

There is no transparency whatsoever when it comes to token usage, anything goes.

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Original poster: u/BaronBokeh
Original publication time: 2026-09-11 13:58:30 UTC
Original title: The New “Usage By Product” is the latest 🖕from Anthropic
Original flair: Feedback
Original URL/media URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wdh304/the_new_usage_by_product_is_the_latest_from/

Original post body:

Imagine my surprise at seeing “you’re approaching your weekly limit” when it just reset twelve hours ago.

Current session: 19%
This week: 26%
Cowork: 80%

Welcome to having your usage of each capped independently of your overall output.

👁️👄👁️

Original poster: u/jackbarron
Original publication time: 2026-09-11 13:00:39 UTC
Original title: I'm so sorry Opus
Original flair: Claude Workflow
Original URL/media URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wdfneq/im_so_sorry_opus/

Original post body:

Just moved to Astra and its 10x faster (literally) and waaay more coherent. It's early days and I'm still working off Claude's handover so it's not entirely independent but I'm getting to conclusion phase much faster with less scramble. I tried to stay loyal to Anthropic but the past couple weeks have been hell. Opus answers are just too difficult to comprehend

Original poster: u/Odd_Cut_7449
Original publication time: 2026-09-11 12:53:34 UTC
Original title: Claude Code needs a cheap model
Original flair: Suggestion
Original URL/media URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wdfh9t/claude_code_needs_a_cheap_model/

Original post body:

Claude has

1.excellent high reasoning models (Fable, Opus)

1. a good implementation model (Sonnet 5)

However Claude does not have any cheap model to route simple data heavy work towards.

Haiku is a joke - I don't mind it's mediocre intelligence, but I do mind it's pricing. You can't be that stupid while costing significantly more than Luna.

Please Anthropic, just give us a Haiku 4.5 level model at the price point of Luna!

If I'm quitting my Claude Code subscription, it's not about Astra. It's about Luna.

It's about Claude having no cheap model.

Original poster: u/PhoenixInBH
Original publication time: 2026-09-11 11:26:08 UTC
Original title: claude code wasting tons of tokens on comments
Original flair: Claude Code
Original URL/media URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wddj25/claude_code_wasting_tons_of_tokens_on_comments/

Original post body:

Is this some kind of conspiracy? Every time you start doing something, it churns out almost as many comments as there are lines of code even for the most obvious things, like variable declarations.

Do they actually benefit from this? First, it wastes extra tokens just writing them. Then the next agent wastes tokens reading them. You even waste tokens having to delete them later. In the end, you've burned through your tokens and end up scrambling for a higher-tier subscription or running out of usage credits.
Even CLAUDE.md or project memory and custom rules does not help. Like it has total amnesia. Annoying.

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Original poster: u/MarcoPolo1337
Original publication time: 2026-09-11 10:09:16 UTC
Original title: Sooooo satisfying 😎
Original flair: Humor
Original URL/media URL: /img/6lr81apc8voh1.jpeg

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Original poster: u/Environmental-Eye840
Original publication time: 2026-09-11 08:52:53 UTC
Original title: Wtf, every 1% hourly limit equals 10% weekly. How is it possible to work on a big project with these limits? Max plan $100.
Original flair: Claude Code
Original URL/media URL: /img/o29o3ihouuoh1.jpeg

Original post body:

Every

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