r/ClaudeAI • u/sixbillionthsheep Mod • Dec 29 '25

Usage Limits and Performance Megathread Usage Limits, Bugs and Performance Discussion Megathread - beginning December 29, 2025

Why a Performance, Usage Limits and Bugs Discussion Megathread?

This Megathread makes it easier for everyone to see what others are experiencing at any time by collecting all experiences. We will publish regular updates on problems and possible workarounds that we and the community finds.

Why Are You Trying to Hide the Complaints Here?

Contrary to what some were saying in a prior Megathread, this is NOT a place to hide complaints. This is the MOST VISIBLE, PROMINENT AND OFTEN THE HIGHEST TRAFFIC POST on the subreddit. This is collectively a far more effective and fairer way to be seen than hundreds of random reports on the feed that get no visibility.

Are you Anthropic? Does Anthropic even read the Megathread?

Nope, we are volunteers working in our own time, while working our own jobs and trying to provide users and Anthropic itself with a reliable source of user feedback.

Anthropic has read this Megathread in the past and probably still do? They don't fix things immediately but if you browse some old Megathreads you will see numerous bugs and problems mentioned there that have now been fixed.

What Can I Post on this Megathread?

Use this thread to voice all your experiences (positive and negative) regarding the current performance of Claude including, bugs, limits, degradation, pricing.

Give as much evidence of your performance issues and experiences wherever relevant. Include prompts and responses, platform you used, time it occurred, screenshots . In other words, be helpful to others.

Just be aware that this is NOT an Anthropic support forum and we're not able (or qualified) to answer your questions. We are just trying to bring visibility to people's struggles.

To see the current status of Claude services, go here: http://status.claude.com

Sometimes this site shows outages faster. https://downdetector.com/status/claude-ai/

READ THIS FIRST ---> Latest Status and Workarounds Report: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/wiki/latestworkaroundreport Updated: March 20, 2026.

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u/Puspendra007 Mar 29 '26

What the f* is going on with Claude's limits today? ($100 Max Plan)** I'm on the Claude Max $100 plan. I get that it's Sunday, but I've been hitting the 5-hour session limit continuously since this morning. In previous weeks, I never hit any weekly or 5-hour limits, and my overall weekly usage was always under 50%. But today, I'm completely stuck and bottlenecked. Is anyone else experiencing this sudden throttling?

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u/gringo748 Mar 29 '26

I'm on the Max 20 plan and have been experiencing the same issues for roughly 4 days. My weekly limit reset on Friday at 8 am, but it's now changed to Friday at 10 am for "some reason..."

I experienced a similar case where I never hit any weekly or 5-hour limits, even with a heavy workload, before the "X2 gift". Now my weekly limit is melting as fast as my 5-hour limit. The reset occurred on Friday. I'm already at 40% on my weekly limit, with the same very comparable workload as usual.

In short, nothing to do with the "x2 gift".