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> First, we’re doubling Claude Code’s five-hour rate limits for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans. Ok I guess, this was a bit of a hassle, but yo
by stavros 6mo ago
> First, we’re doubling Claude Code’s five-hour rate limits for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans.
Ok I guess, this was a bit of a hassle, but you're not increasing my weekly allowance, you're just not annoying me as often.
> Second, we’re removing the peak hours limit reduction on Claude Code for Pro and Max accounts.
It wasn't a limit reduction (as in, I didn't have a lower 5-hour limit), it was "tokens are more expensive" and it ate my weekly limits faster. This should never have been instituted to begin with.
> Third, we’re raising our API rate limits considerably for Claude Opus models, as shown in the table below:
Meh.
This is why I don't care for all the "it's a subscription, you're free to not use it!" arguments here. It's not an all-you-can-eat subscription with some generous fair use limits, it's a "X tokens per month for $Y", and they keep lowering the X unilaterally and in secret.
- solenoid0937 6mo agoPeople are so cynical on HN. Just move to API billing if not getting enough subsidized compute is that big a deal for you?
- stavros 6mo agoIs that what you do when you prepay for a year to get a discount and the supplier just says "oh I'll just give you half of what you paid for"? You "just move to pay again for the rest"?
- solenoid0937 6mo agoSorry, were you told you'd be given a specific number of tokens when you subscribed?
- stavros 6mo agoYes? Weren't you? Did you think you were buying a token lottery, where you'd have a billion tokens one day and zero the next?
- solenoid0937 6mo agoHow many tokens exactly did they guarantee you when you signed up? I don't recall ever seeing a hard number. It was always pretty clear it was flex pricing.
- stavros 6mo agoThey guaranteed as many as they were offering when I signed up. I tried it for a month, it worked for me, I signed up for a year. Then they reduced the limits. If you think that's fine, I have access to an all-you-can eat buffet to sell you for only $2000 a year, it's a steal.