Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

Bluestein

This might explain the outtages today, as folks race, misguidedly or not.-

wilg

Claude Opus and Fable are so bad compared to GPT-5.6-Sol it's ridiculous, their desktop client is worse, and the value is worse because OpenAI has been spamming discounts. They better get their shit together at Anthropic! Edit: If you're mad I'm light on the details I have provided some in the replies.

Alephinitesimal

I saw this announcement when it came out and completely forgot about it. That explains why Claude Code felt so surprisingly generous these past few months.

bdcravens

The promotion is ending; the limits are reverting to pre-promotion levels. "From May 13, 2026 through August 19, 2026, your weekly usage limit in Claude Code is 50% higher."

nostrebored

prediction: extension of promotions because of the progressive move to codex.

jdoe1337halo

Anthropic seems cooked right now in terms of compute

swader999

Looking like this will be the last month with Anthropic. Between the outages and just overall crap utility of Opus/Fable lately...

bellowsgulch

I have no idea why anyone would spend the money Anthropic asks for Claude models these days. There was a brief window in time when it was worth the money to use them a bit through GitHub Copilot, but there's no way in hell I'm spending that for Claude Sonnet when DeepSeek is basically doing all of my work right now.

_diyar

I wonder if this promotion was because of the summer holidays.

MaxPock

Will Anthropic be the Netscape or Yahoo of our time ?

brandonhbodine

I wonder if they schedule these promotions around training runs?

bugglebeetle

I forgot this was in effect. I’ve been hitting my weekly rate limits two to three days in because of needing to steer Slopus 5 with Fable. Absurd that they’re being cut further in the face of steep competition from open weights models.

Taikhoom10

Anthropic's struggles have only started - https://s-1.vercel.app/posts/the-capital-cycle-theory/

PacificSpecific

I got a max account during this promotion and it's been very fun but I'm a little burned out and am kind of looking forward to going back and tinkering with game engines without the help of an LLM for code gen (will still use it for documentation questions but I can do that with the free tier)

GenerWork

Will they, though? I could see Anthropic extending it since OpenAI cut the pricing of Sol by 50% for the time being.

mil22

Yet another scramble to use up weekly quota before an Anthropic cliff. This isn't fun.

__turbobrew__

Quite a number of the smartest people I know got scalped to work at OpenAI. I don’t know anyone who went to Anthropic. Something I think which is under emphasized is that OpenAI has the human capital in addition to the financial capital advantage over Anthropic. Over the long term I think OpenAI will produce the better experience when it comes to model quality, harness quality, and availability. I have been using codex the past few months and never looked back.

danjl

I suspect the net result will be that more Pro $100 subscribers upgrade to $200/mo. If you explicitly do simpler stuff with Opus, you generally have enough Fable time for most programming and planning tasks.

system2

As we speak, Claude is down. I was already complaining about how extremely slow and dumb it has gotten since Opus 5. I guess this will be the last nail in the coffin for Claude. At least for me.

tinyhouse

I actually use claude these days mostly for mission critical tasks and code reviews. Everything else I use Sol. I have $20/month plans on both. For non-coding I also use Gemini on a $20/plan. So far I haven't had any issues but we'll see how things go. I have Qwen3.8-27B installed locally but until I upgrade my mac it's not for day to day stuff.