https://resetradar.com/ Every documented change to Claude usage limits: resets, caps, promotions, incidents. en Mon, 07 Sep 2026 05:13:08 +0000 https://resetradar.com/#2026-09-17-fable5-promo-credits-expire 2026-09-17-fable5-promo-credits-expire Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The one-time Fable 5 credit that came with the July 20 restructure ($100 for Pro, $100 per standard Team seat, capped $2,500 per org) expires September 17, 2026 at 23:59 PT · 60 days after the promotion began, regardless of when it was claimed. The window to claim the credit has already closed: it ran to August 2, 2026 at 23:59 PT. Only the expiry is still ahead. Unspent credit is lost on expiry, so anyone holding a claimed credit has until September 17 to spend it and nobody can obtain a new one. https://resetradar.com/#2026-09-13-last-day-of-the-50-claude-code-weekly-boost-before-the-perma 2026-09-13-last-day-of-the-50-claude-code-weekly-boost-before-the-perma Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 September 13 is the final day of the temporary +50% weekly limits promotion that has run on Claude Code since May 13 and been extended repeatedly through the summer. From September 14 it is replaced by a permanent 25% rise in standard weekly limits for Pro, Max, Team and seat-based Enterprise plans. Anthropic put the net effect at a 17% reduction against the limits in force during the promotion. https://resetradar.com/#2026-09-04-unannounced-flush-of-5-hour-and-weekly-limits-reported-by-us 2026-09-04-unannounced-flush-of-5-hour-and-weekly-limits-reported-by-us Fri, 04 Sep 2026 20:00:00 +0000 Around 20:00 UTC on September 4, both usage counters went back to zero for subscribers across plans, with no announcement: nothing from Anthropic's developer account, nothing on the status page, nothing in the Claude Code changelog. The first reports appeared on r/ClaudeCode at 20:07 UTC and on r/ClaudeAI four minutes later, describing five-hour and weekly allowances refilled mid-cycle. Not everyone reports receiving it, so the reach is inferred from those reports rather than stated. It is the second flush in four days, after the September 1 reset that came with the Fable 5.1 launch, and it follows two days of major capacity incidents on September 2 and 3. https://resetradar.com/#2026-09-01-all-users-flush-of-5-hour-and-weekly-limits-bundled-with-the 2026-09-01-all-users-flush-of-5-hour-and-weekly-limits-bundled-with-the Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:35:27 +0000 Anthropic reset both the 5-hour and the weekly usage counters for every user on September 1, announced alongside the launch of Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1. It is the first all-users flush since July 16 and it lands twelve days before the +50% Claude Code weekly boost is due to give way to the permanent, 17%-lower baseline on September 14. https://resetradar.com/#2026-08-29-the-august-31-weekly-cliff-moved-again-50-runs-to-september- 2026-08-29-the-august-31-weekly-cliff-moved-again-50-runs-to-september- Sat, 29 Aug 2026 16:00:54 +0000 Anthropic announced on August 29 that the +50% Claude Code weekly limits promotion, which the help centre still showed ending August 31, will instead stay in place until September 13. From September 14 standard weekly limits rise permanently by 25% for Pro, Max, Team and seat-based Enterprise plans, replacing the temporary boost rather than extending it. Anthropic said in the same thread that this works out to a 17% reduction compared with today's limits, and that it is working on changes giving users more visibility and control over their usage. https://resetradar.com/#2026-08-19-weekly-promo-ends 2026-08-19-weekly-promo-ends Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The 50% higher Claude Code weekly limits (running since May 13) are scheduled to end August 19 after two extensions. If it holds, effective weekly headroom in Claude Code drops by a third back to standard. The two previous end dates (July 13, July 19) both moved, so watch for another extension. https://resetradar.com/#2026-08-19-weekly-cliff-likely-moves 2026-08-19-weekly-cliff-likely-moves Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A projection about an announced date, not a new date of our own. The +50% Claude Code weekly limits have been scheduled to end twice already, on July 13 and on July 19. Both times the deadline moved instead of landing, and both times the extension arrived within days of the cliff. That is the entire basis for this call, and it is a thin one: two of two. It is enough to lean, not enough to forecast. A seasonal promo with a fixed calendar end behaved differently · the holiday boost lapsed on January 1 exactly as announced. What would change the read: an explicit statement that this is the final extension, or the deadline passing quietly without an announcement in the days before August 19. We are watching for both. If the limits do drop on August 19, we grade this a miss. https://resetradar.com/#2026-08-18-the-august-19-claude-code-cliff-moved-again-50-weekly-limits 2026-08-18-the-august-19-claude-code-cliff-moved-again-50-weekly-limits Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Anthropic extended the +50% Claude Code weekly limit promotion from August 19 to August 31, 2026 for Pro, Max, Team and legacy seat-based Enterprise users, and the support article now reads "From May 13, 2026 through August 31, 2026, your weekly usage limit in Claude Code is 50% higher." Announcing it, @ClaudeDevs said Anthropic hopes to make the increase permanent but that strong demand for its models means capacity may be tight over the coming weeks. https://resetradar.com/#2026-08-07-auto-mode-becomes-the-claude-code-default-on-august-14-and-i 2026-08-07-auto-mode-becomes-the-claude-code-default-on-august-14-and-i Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Anthropic announced on August 7 that auto mode will be the default permission mode for new Claude Code sessions on Pro, Max and Team plans from August 14, routing each tool call through a separate classifier instead of asking for manual approval. Effective the day of the announcement, the extra tokens that classifier consumes no longer count against usage limits on those plans. https://resetradar.com/#2026-08-05-cowork-promo-ends 2026-08-05-cowork-promo-ends Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The doubled Cowork usage limits that shipped with the web and mobile beta ran through August 5, per the announcement, and ended on the announced date. Cowork usage counts against standard limits again. This is the first promo deadline this summer that landed rather than moved. The two Claude Code weekly deadlines, July 13 and July 19, were both extended within days of the cliff, and the Fable 5 access window was extended twice. What we can and cannot say: no end was ever announced, so the resolution rests on the absence of any extension. The primary announcement still reads 'through August 5' with no update, and official channels were swept daily from August 6 to August 17 with no extension found. That is strong evidence the promo lapsed on schedule and no evidence at all about what the post-promo Cowork allowance actually is. https://resetradar.com/#2026-08-01-possible-flush-window 2026-08-01-possible-flush-window Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A projection, not an announcement. Counter-reset flushes ran on April 23, May 15, June 1, June 19, July 1, July 9 and July 16 · gaps of 22, 17, 18, 12, 8 and 7 days, a clearly contracting cadence. That contraction has now broken. Extrapolating it predicted a flush around July 24 or 25, and none arrived. We are recording that miss rather than quietly re-fitting the line. Conditioning instead on the 12 quiet days since July 16, only the three longer historical gaps (17, 18 and 22 days) remain possible, which puts the next flush between August 2 and August 7. Confidence is moderate, not high: six intervals is a thin sample, and the July 20 plan restructure may have removed the reason these flushes happened at all. Three things corroborate the window. A capacity-incident cluster ran from July 25 and was still going on July 27, and sustained rough stretches, not single bad days, preceded the April 23, June 1 and June 19 flushes. Opus 5 became the Max default on July 24 with no limit adjustment attached, which raises consumption pressure. And the doubled Cowork limits are scheduled to end August 5, inside the window. One thing argues against it: the July 17 and July 20 credit-billing incidents drew no flush, where three earlier incidents each did within days. If a flush lands before August 2 we will grade this a miss and say so. Graded a miss on August 17. No flush arrived inside the August 2 to 7 window, and none has arrived since. The gap now stands at 32 days from July 16, longer than every interval this projection was fitted to, including the 22-day maximum, so the method has no remaining support rather than a window that was slightly off. The rule stated above only anticipated the opposite failure, a flush landing early, and we are leaving that wording visible rather than tidying it away. What the accumulated evidence turned out to be worth: the capacity-incident cluster ran for a month and a critical-impact outage landed on August 16, so the corroborating conditions held and the flush still did not follow. That breaks the link this projection rested on. Whether the compensatory flush survived the July 20 plan restructure at all is now the open question, and it is the one a successor projection would have to answer. https://resetradar.com/#2026-07-20-claude-code-fable5-credit-misprompt 2026-07-20-claude-code-fable5-credit-misprompt Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:35:00 +0000 On the July 20 changeover day, some Claude Code users on Max plans were incorrectly prompted to spend usage credits to access Fable 5, which is included in their plan. Anthropic's status page opened the incident at 07:35 UTC and resolved it at 15:35 UTC; affected users had to restart Claude Code to clear the prompt. Minor impact, Claude Code only. Distinct from the July 17 early credit-wall glitch · this one was the operational hiccup as the permanent restructure went live. https://resetradar.com/#2026-07-20-fable5-permanent-restructure 2026-07-20-fable5-permanent-restructure Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The extension cycle ends with a tier split. From July 20: Fable 5 is permanently included in Max and Team Premium plans at 50% of limits; Pro and Team Standard use usage credits ($10 per million input tokens, $50 per million output) and receive a one-time $100 credit. Anthropic says it aims to restore broader inclusion "when sufficient capacity allows", no timeline. Note the effective Fable allotment is lower than during the promo, since 50% now applies to standard limits. Confirmed in effect: on July 20 a Claude Code status incident recorded Max users being wrongly prompted to spend credits for Fable 5 (included in their plan), a changeover-day glitch that placed the restructure live. https://resetradar.com/#2026-07-17-fable5-credits-glitch 2026-07-17-fable5-credits-glitch Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:32:00 +0000 For about 71 minutes (18:32 to 19:43 UTC) the promo entitlement misfired: paid-plan users were required to spend usage credits for Fable 5 although included access ran through July 19. Anthropic's status page tracked it as "Elevated errors across Fable 5" and resolved it the same evening. One outlet reports affected users had erroneous charges refunded plus a matching credit granted; treat that compensation detail as reported, not confirmed. https://resetradar.com/#2026-07-16-all-users-flush 2026-07-16-all-users-flush Thu, 16 Jul 2026 03:58:00 +0000 At 03:58 UTC (8:58 PM PT on July 15) @ClaudeDevs posted: "We've reset 5-hour and weekly rate limits for all users." Both meters refilled to 100%; capacity unchanged. It followed a degraded stretch (Haiku errors July 13, a claude.ai partial outage July 14, multi-model errors July 15) and landed about four hours after Cursor announced doubled included usage; OpenAI's Codex issued a refill the same day. July's flush cadence is now roughly weekly: July 1, July 9, July 16. https://resetradar.com/#2026-07-20-next-flush-window 2026-07-20-next-flush-window Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A projection, not an announcement. In early July we projected another flush in the second half of the month, based on the roughly weekly cadence. Hit on July 16, 2026, when Anthropic reset all users' counters at 03:58 UTC after a rough incident week. Kept on the board as part of the track record. https://resetradar.com/#2026-07-13-weekly-promo-ends 2026-07-13-weekly-promo-ends Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The day both the +50% weekly boost and Fable 5 included access were scheduled to end. Neither did: on July 12 Anthropic moved both deadlines to July 19 (and later again). Recorded as scheduled-but-superseded; the extension itself is the July 12 entry. https://resetradar.com/#2026-07-12-both-promos-extended 2026-07-12-both-promos-extended Sun, 12 Jul 2026 17:02:00 +0000 One day before the double deadline, Anthropic extended both promotions through July 19 at 11:59 PM PT: Fable 5 included access on all paid plans, and Claude Code's 50% higher weekly limits (automatic, Claude Code only, 5-hour limits unaffected). Plan owners were emailed the same day. The second extension for Fable 5 access, the first for the weekly boost. https://resetradar.com/#2026-07-09-all-users-flush 2026-07-09-all-users-flush Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:01:00 +0000 @ClaudeDevs posted that 5-hour and weekly rate limits were reset for all users at about 18:01 UTC on Thursday, July 9. No reason was given; the community links the timing to OpenAI taking GPT-5.6 public the same day, though that motive is unconfirmed. The sixth documented flush of 2026 (April 23, May 15, June 1, June 19, July 1, July 9), a cadence of roughly one flush every one to three weeks. https://resetradar.com/#2026-07-07-fable5-access-extended 2026-07-07-fable5-access-extended Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Hours before the original July 7 cutoff, Anthropic extended Fable 5 included access on paid plans (up to 50% of weekly limits) to July 12 at 11:59:59 PM PT. Announced via @claudeai and a support-article update, no newsroom post. The relaunch terms had said included access ran through July 7, after which usage credits ($10 per million input tokens, $50 per million output) would apply. https://resetradar.com/#2026-07-07-cowork-doubling-extended 2026-07-07-cowork-doubling-extended Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Announced Jul 7 ~16:07 UTC via @claudeai alongside the Cowork web/mobile rollout: 'We're extending doubled Cowork usage limits through August 5.' Applies to Cowork beta participants on select paid plans (rollout beginning with Max). 'Extending' implies the doubling was already active before Jul 7; original start date not found in any source. New end: Aug 5, 2026, announced in advance of that end date. https://resetradar.com/#2026-07-01-fable5-relaunch-flush 2026-07-01-fable5-relaunch-flush Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 @ClaudeDevs (~21:16 UTC Wed Jul 1): 'Now that Fable 5 is ready to build (again), we've reset everyone's 5-hour and weekly rate limits.' Context: US export controls applied Jun 12 forced suspension of Fable 5/Mythos 5; controls lifted Jun 30, model relaunched Jul 1 with the flush as a relaunch gesture. Same-day announcement. https://resetradar.com/#2026-07-01-fable5-included-access 2026-07-01-fable5-included-access Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Fable 5 relaunched with included access on all paid plans, up to 50% of weekly limits, originally through July 7. The deadline then moved three times (July 7 to July 12, July 12 to July 19) before the July 20 permanent restructure ended the window: the inclusion ran through July 19 at 11:59:59 PM PT. https://resetradar.com/#2026-06-19-weekend-flush 2026-06-19-weekend-flush Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 @ClaudeDevs: 'Update: we've gone ahead and reset 5-hour and weekly usage limits for everyone, across all plans. Enjoy your weekend!' posted 00:05 UTC Jun 20 (Fri Jun 19 ~5pm PT). Follow-up to a bug that showed ~3% of Max/Pro users an incorrect weekly limit and blocked some from sending messages, Anthropic first reset affected users, then escalated to an all-plans flush. Same-day, no advance notice. https://resetradar.com/#2026-06-02-enterprise-activation-credits 2026-06-02-enterprise-activation-credits Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Jun 2 through Jul 2, 2026 11:59:59 PM PT: each qualifying seat on usage-based Claude Enterprise orgs earns $1,000 in usage credits on its first successful Claude Code or Cowork message; credits expire 90 days after issuance, max 10,000 seats/org ($10M cap). Excludes legacy seat-based Enterprise, Team, Pro, Max, adjacent bonus-usage promo, not a Pro/Max/Team boost. https://resetradar.com/#2026-06-01-flush-opus48-bug 2026-06-01-flush-opus48-bug Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 @ClaudeDevs (~17:35 UTC Mon Jun 1): 'We've reset 5-hour and weekly rate limits for all users on Pro and Max plans. We fixed an issue that caused some Claude Code sessions to spawn excessive parallel subagents, burning through usage faster than expected.' Root cause: Opus 4.8 request handling spawning unneeded parallel subagents; flush compensated burned quota. Narrower scope than other flushes (Pro and Max only). https://resetradar.com/#2026-05-15-global-counter-flush 2026-05-15-global-counter-flush Fri, 15 May 2026 12:47:00 +0000 Announced on the official @ClaudeDevs X account ("Happy Friday! We've reset everyone's 5-hour and weekly rate limits."). Both the rolling 5-hour window and the weekly consumption counters were flushed globally for every active subscriber, restoring full quota simultaneously regardless of location or how depleted the counters were. https://resetradar.com/#2026-05-13-weekly-plus-50-promo 2026-05-13-weekly-plus-50-promo Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Anthropic raised weekly usage limits by 50% as a time-boxed promotion running through July 13, 2026. The boost applied on top of the May 6 permanent doubling of 5-hour limits. Extended twice since: on July 12 through July 19, and on July 18 through August 19 (Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise). https://resetradar.com/#2026-05-06-five-hour-limits-doubled 2026-05-06-five-hour-limits-doubled Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Effective the same day it was announced: Claude Code's 5-hour rate limits doubled for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans, and the peak-hours limit reduction was removed for Pro and Max. Weekly caps and API pricing were unchanged. https://resetradar.com/#2026-04-23-flush-with-postmortem 2026-04-23-flush-with-postmortem Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Anthropic reset usage limits for all subscribers as compensation for three engineering missteps that degraded Claude Code (a March 4 reasoning-effort downgrade, a March 26 session-clearing bug, and an April 16 verbosity prompt), documented in an official postmortem which states that usage limits were reset for all subscribers as of April 23. The earliest documented all-subscriber counter flush, announced the same day it took effect. https://resetradar.com/#2026-03-26-peak-hours-reduction 2026-03-26-peak-hours-reduction Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Anthropic began reducing effective 5-hour session capacity during peak hours (~8 AM-2 PM ET; later sources describe penalties up to ~50%) while expanding off-peak so weekly totals were unchanged; ~7% of users expected to feel it. Communicated via an X post with minimal notice; press framed it as quiet throttling. Existence confirmed by Anthropic's own May 6 post 'removing the peak hours limit reduction'. Date is press-coverage date (The Register Mar 26); exact effective date unverified. https://resetradar.com/#2026-03-13-off-peak-doubling-promo 2026-03-13-off-peak-doubling-promo Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 5-hour usage limits were doubled during off-peak hours (outside 8 AM to 2 PM ET on weekdays) and all weekend, for Free, Pro, Max, and Team plans (Enterprise excluded). Bonus usage did not count against weekly caps. The promotion ended on schedule on March 28, 2026. https://resetradar.com/#2026-02-05-opus46-extra-usage-credits 2026-02-05-opus46-extra-usage-credits Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Opus 4.6 launched Feb 5, 2026 with no plan-limit changes; alongside it Anthropic granted $50 in extra-usage credits to Pro/Max users subscribed before Feb 4 11:59 PM PT, claimable by enabling Extra Usage by Feb 16; credits expired 60 days after claiming, usable across Claude, Claude Code, Cowork. Granted same day as announcement (Anthropic's Cat Wu amplified on X ~Feb 7). Widely-flagged caveat: after credits exhaust, Extra Usage continues as pay-as-you-go unless disabled. https://resetradar.com/#2026-01-08-reported-opus-weekly-cut 2026-01-08-reported-opus-weekly-cut Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 claude-code issue #17084 reports that from the weekly reset on Thu Jan 8, 2026, Opus 4.5 ('All models') weekly limits became the most restrictive since launch, e.g. 27% of weekly limit consumed after one day of normal use vs much lower burn in prior weeks; reporters suspected a server-side change around Claude Code v2.1.0. Community-only; no Anthropic acknowledgment. https://resetradar.com/#2026-01-01-holiday-boost-ends 2026-01-01-holiday-boost-ends Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 When the holiday 2x promo lapsed Dec 31, users reported rapid token depletion in early January; one developer's token-level log analysis claimed a ~60% reduction vs baseline. Anthropic dismissed reduction claims as unfounded, attributing perceptions to the expiring bonus. The boost-end itself was pre-announced (published end date); the disputed part is whether baseline limits also dropped. https://resetradar.com/#2025-12-25-holiday-doubling 2025-12-25-holiday-doubling Thu, 25 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Dec 25 00:00 UTC through Dec 31 23:59 UTC 2025: 2x five-hour limits and 2x weekly caps for individual Pro, Max 5x, Max 20x only (Team/Enterprise excluded), on Claude web app, Claude Code, and Claude in Chrome. Weekly caps were RESET at promo start, a built-in flush. Announced via published Help Center terms with a stated end date. Press framed it as a response to OpenAI/Google holiday dev promos; The Register reported it used idle enterprise compute. https://resetradar.com/#2025-11-24-opus45-caps-removed 2025-11-24-opus45-caps-removed Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 With the Opus 4.5 launch Anthropic removed Opus-specific usage caps in Claude and Claude Code, raised overall limits for Max and Team Premium ('roughly the same number of Opus tokens as you previously had with Sonnet'), and gave Sonnet its own limit set to the previous overall limit. Permanent; effective same day as announcement, no advance notice. Anthropic noted limits could be revised for future models. https://resetradar.com/#2025-09-29-reported-weekly-reduction 2025-09-29-reported-weekly-reduction Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 From Sonnet 4.5 launch day, 30+ GitHub reports (aggregated in claude-code issue #9094, filed Oct 7) plus Reddit threads claimed weekly limits were effectively slashed (e.g. Pro from ~40-50h/week to ~6-8h/week vs the Jul 28 guidance of 40-80h). Never acknowledged by Anthropic; community-sourced only. https://resetradar.com/#2025-08-28-weekly-caps-effective 2025-08-28-weekly-caps-effective Thu, 28 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 The weekly caps announced on July 28, 2025 became active: a 7-day reset cycle layered on top of the existing rolling 5-hour window, including a separate weekly cap for Opus usage on Max plans. Anthropic stated the caps would affect fewer than 5% of subscribers based on usage at the time. https://resetradar.com/#2025-07-28-weekly-caps-announced 2025-07-28-weekly-caps-announced Mon, 28 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Anthropic announced that weekly usage limits would be added for Claude Pro and Max subscribers effective August 28, 2025, citing a small number of users running Claude Code continuously. This was the first major layered limit on top of the 5-hour rolling session window. https://resetradar.com/#2025-07-17-quiet-tightening-claude-code 2025-07-17-quiet-tightening-claude-code Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Starting around Jul 14, 2025, heavy Claude Code users (especially $200 Max) hit unexpectedly restrictive limits with only a 'Claude usage limit reached' message; Anthropic confirmed to TechCrunch but declined to explain. First major quiet-tightening incident; foreshadowed the weekly-caps announcement 11 days later. Date is the TechCrunch report date.