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Limits change

Anthropic adds weekly usage limits to Claude subscriptions from August 28, 2025

Anthropic emailed subscribers that from August 28, 2025 an overall weekly limit and a separate Claude Opus 4 weekly limit would apply alongside the 5-hour limit, affecting less than 5% of users. It estimated 140 to 280 hours of Sonnet 4 and 15 to 35 hours of Opus 4 a week for most Max 5x users. The Hacker News thread drew 609 points and 705 comments.

Before

5-hour limit only

After

5-hour limit plus overall weekly limit and Opus weekly limit

Who is affected:
Claude Pro and Max subscribers who run Claude Code for long or parallel sessions.
Action needed:
Check your weekly usage and plan long Opus sessions around the weekly reset.

Source

"Starting August 28, we're introducing weekly usage limits alongside our existing 5-hour limits"

Hacker News (text of Anthropic's email)

Published · 705 comments

Open the sourcenews.ycombinator.com

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