> 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.
People are so cynical on HN. Just move to API billing if not getting enough subsidized compute is that big a deal for you?
Is 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"?
Sorry, were you told you'd be given a specific number of tokens when you subscribed?
Yes? 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?
How 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.
They 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.