{
  "dataset": "LimitSheet",
  "version": "v1",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "attribution": "LimitSheet (https://limitsheet.com/)",
  "url": "https://limitsheet.com/changes/2025-08-28-claude-weekly-limits-introduced/",
  "item": {
    "id": "2025-08-28-claude-weekly-limits-introduced",
    "date": "2025-08-28",
    "announced_on": "2025-07-28",
    "effective_on": "2025-08-28",
    "detected_on": "2026-09-28",
    "published_on": "2026-09-28",
    "products": [
      "claude"
    ],
    "plans": [
      "claude-pro",
      "claude-max-5x",
      "claude-max-20x"
    ],
    "kind": "limits",
    "title": "Claude adds weekly limits for Pro and Max",
    "summary": "Anthropic added two weekly rate limits for Pro and Max subscribers on top of the existing limits that reset every five hours: an overall weekly limit and a separate weekly limit for Claude Opus 4. Both reset every seven days.",
    "before": "Pro and Max usage limits that reset every five hours; no weekly limit.",
    "after": "Five-hour limits unchanged, plus an overall weekly limit and a weekly Claude Opus 4 limit, each resetting every seven days.",
    "baseline_note": "The limits in place before August 28, 2025, which reset every five hours and had no weekly cap. Anthropic published no absolute weekly values. It estimated the new limits would apply to less than 5% of subscribers, and told TechCrunch that most Pro users could expect 40 to 80 hours of Sonnet 4 through Claude Code within their weekly limits. Announced July 28, 2025.",
    "direction": "decrease",
    "material": true,
    "source_ids": [
      "techcrunch-claude-weekly-limits-2025-07-28"
    ],
    "quotes": [
      {
        "source_id": "techcrunch-claude-weekly-limits-2025-07-28",
        "quote": "The new rate limits will go into effect August 28 for subscribers to Anthropic’s $20-per-month Pro plan, as well as its $100- and $200-per-month Max plans, the company said Monday in an email to subscribers and a post on X."
      },
      {
        "source_id": "techcrunch-claude-weekly-limits-2025-07-28",
        "quote": "We’re rolling out new weekly rate limits for Claude Pro and Max in late August. We estimate they’ll apply to less than 5% of subscribers based on current usage."
      },
      {
        "source_id": "techcrunch-claude-weekly-limits-2025-07-28",
        "quote": "Anthropic says its existing usage limits, which reset every five hours, will remain in place. The company is also introducing two new weekly rate limits that reset every seven days; one is an overall usage limit, whereas the other is specific to Anthropic’s most advanced AI model, Claude Opus 4."
      },
      {
        "source_id": "techcrunch-claude-weekly-limits-2025-07-28",
        "quote": "Anthropic tells TechCrunch that most Pro users can expect 40 to 80 hours of Sonnet 4 through Claude Code within their weekly rate limits."
      }
    ],
    "verified_at": "2026-09-29",
    "verified_by": "Lokesh Rathore",
    "verified_method": "ai_assisted"
  }
}