https://resetradar.com/ Every documented change to Claude usage limits: resets, caps, promotions, incidents. en Fri, 10 Jul 2026 04:00:00 +0000 https://resetradar.com/#2026-08-01-possible-flush-window 2026-08-01-possible-flush-window Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Projected in early July 2026: further goodwill counter flushes, based on the May 15 precedent and competitive pressure. GRADED A HIT on July 9, 2026, when Anthropic flushed all users' counters the day GPT-5.6 went public. The projection stays on the board as part of the track record. https://resetradar.com/#2026-07-20-next-flush-window 2026-07-20-next-flush-window Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A projection, not an announcement. Flushes have arrived roughly every one to three weeks since April (Apr 23, May 15, Jun 1, Jun 19, Jul 1, Jul 9), usually during competitive news cycles or after rough capacity weeks. The pattern points at another flush in the second half of July. Watch @ClaudeDevs for the confirmation. https://resetradar.com/#2026-07-13-weekly-promo-ends 2026-07-13-weekly-promo-ends Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A double deadline. The 50% weekly-limit boost from May 13 is scheduled to end, and the Fable 5 included-access period (already extended once) switches to credits the same day. Unless either is extended again, expect your effective weekly headroom to drop and Fable 5 usage to start drawing credits. https://resetradar.com/#2026-07-09-all-users-flush 2026-07-09-all-users-flush Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:01:00 +0000 @ClaudeDevs posted 'We've reset 5-hour and weekly rate limits for all users' at ~18:01 UTC Thu Jul 9. No reason given; community links the timing to OpenAI's GPT-5.6 public launch the same day (unconfirmed motive). Verified during curation via live web search: the primary tweet exists with that exact text, corroborated by a Threads repost and same-day X reports. Sixth documented flush of 2026 (Apr 23, May 15, Jun 1, Jun 19, Jul 1, Jul 9), cadence roughly every 1-3 weeks. A conflicting sweep-agent 'no reset found Jul 8-10' finding is superseded (see reset check). https://resetradar.com/#2026-07-07-fable5-access-extended 2026-07-07-fable5-access-extended Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Announced Jul 7 ~16:07 UTC via @claudeai alongside the Cowork web/mobile rollout: 'We're extending doubled Cowork usage limits through August 5.' Applies to Cowork beta participants on select paid plans (rollout beginning with Max). 'Extending' implies the doubling was already active before Jul 7; original start date not found in any source. New end: Aug 5, 2026, announced in advance of that end date. https://resetradar.com/#2026-07-07-cowork-doubling-extended 2026-07-07-cowork-doubling-extended Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Announced Jul 7 ~16:07 UTC via @claudeai alongside the Cowork web/mobile rollout: 'We're extending doubled Cowork usage limits through August 5.' Applies to Cowork beta participants on select paid plans (rollout beginning with Max). 'Extending' implies the doubling was already active before Jul 7; original start date not found in any source. New end: Aug 5, 2026, announced in advance of that end date. https://resetradar.com/#2026-07-01-fable5-relaunch-flush 2026-07-01-fable5-relaunch-flush Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 @ClaudeDevs (~21:16 UTC Wed Jul 1): 'Now that Fable 5 is ready to build (again), we've reset everyone's 5-hour and weekly rate limits.' Context: US export controls applied Jun 12 forced suspension of Fable 5/Mythos 5; controls lifted Jun 30, model relaunched Jul 1 with the flush as a relaunch gesture. Tweet text independently confirmed via live search during curation. Same-day announcement. https://resetradar.com/#2026-07-01-fable5-included-access 2026-07-01-fable5-included-access Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 On relaunch (Jul 1, ~19:31 UTC @claudeai post), Fable 5 became included at no extra cost in Pro, Max, Team, and premium seat-based Enterprise up to 50% of the weekly usage limit, then switch models or buy usage credits. Original cutoff Jul 8, 2026 12 AM PT, after which Fable 5 would bill via usage credits only ($10/M input, $50/M output). Changes what the weekly counter covers. Same-day announcement. https://resetradar.com/#2026-06-19-weekend-flush 2026-06-19-weekend-flush Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 @ClaudeDevs: 'Update: we've gone ahead and reset 5-hour and weekly usage limits for everyone, across all plans. Enjoy your weekend!' posted 00:05 UTC Jun 20 (Fri Jun 19 ~5pm PT). Follow-up to a bug that showed ~3% of Max/Pro users an incorrect weekly limit and blocked some from sending messages, Anthropic first reset affected users, then escalated to an all-plans flush. Same-day, no advance notice. https://resetradar.com/#2026-06-02-enterprise-activation-credits 2026-06-02-enterprise-activation-credits Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Jun 2 through Jul 2, 2026 11:59:59 PM PT: each qualifying seat on usage-based Claude Enterprise orgs earns $1,000 in usage credits on its first successful Claude Code or Cowork message; credits expire 90 days after issuance, max 10,000 seats/org ($10M cap). Excludes legacy seat-based Enterprise, Team, Pro, Max, adjacent bonus-usage promo, not a Pro/Max/Team boost. https://resetradar.com/#2026-06-01-flush-opus48-bug 2026-06-01-flush-opus48-bug Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 @ClaudeDevs (~17:35 UTC Mon Jun 1): 'We've reset 5-hour and weekly rate limits for all users on Pro and Max plans. We fixed an issue that caused some Claude Code sessions to spawn excessive parallel subagents, burning through usage faster than expected.' Root cause: Opus 4.8 request handling spawning unneeded parallel subagents; flush compensated burned quota. Narrower scope than other flushes (Pro and Max only). Tweet text independently confirmed via live search during curation. https://resetradar.com/#2026-05-15-global-counter-flush 2026-05-15-global-counter-flush Fri, 15 May 2026 12:47:00 +0000 Announced on the official @ClaudeDevs X account ("Happy Friday! We've reset everyone's 5-hour and weekly rate limits."). Both the rolling 5-hour window and the weekly consumption counters were flushed globally for every active subscriber, restoring full quota simultaneously regardless of location or how depleted the counters were. https://resetradar.com/#2026-05-13-weekly-plus-50-promo 2026-05-13-weekly-plus-50-promo Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Anthropic raised weekly usage limits by 50% as a time-boxed promotion running through July 13, 2026. The boost applied on top of the May 6 permanent doubling of 5-hour limits. https://resetradar.com/#2026-05-06-five-hour-limits-doubled 2026-05-06-five-hour-limits-doubled Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Effective the same day it was announced: Claude Code's 5-hour rate limits doubled for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans, and the peak-hours limit reduction was removed for Pro and Max. Weekly caps and API pricing were unchanged. https://resetradar.com/#2026-04-23-flush-with-postmortem 2026-04-23-flush-with-postmortem Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Anthropic reset usage limits for all subscribers as compensation for three engineering missteps that degraded Claude Code (Mar 4 reasoning-effort downgrade, Mar 26 session-clearing bug, Apr 16 verbosity prompt), documented in an official postmortem. PRIMARY SOURCE VERIFIED during curation: Anthropic's engineering postmortem itself states 'we reset usage limits for all subscribers as of April 23', upgrading the sweep finding that had no primary source. This is the earliest documented all-subscriber counter flush, predating the May 15 flush already on the timeline. Announced same day, after the https://resetradar.com/#2026-03-26-peak-hours-reduction 2026-03-26-peak-hours-reduction Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Anthropic began reducing effective 5-hour session capacity during peak hours (~8 AM-2 PM ET; later sources describe penalties up to ~50%) while expanding off-peak so weekly totals were unchanged; ~7% of users expected to feel it. Communicated via an X post with minimal notice; press framed it as quiet throttling. Existence confirmed by Anthropic's own May 6 post 'removing the peak hours limit reduction'. Date is press-coverage date (The Register Mar 26); exact effective date unverified. https://resetradar.com/#2026-03-13-off-peak-doubling-promo 2026-03-13-off-peak-doubling-promo Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 5-hour usage limits were doubled during off-peak hours (outside 8 AM to 2 PM ET on weekdays) and all weekend, for Free, Pro, Max, and Team plans (Enterprise excluded). Bonus usage did not count against weekly caps. The promotion ended on schedule on March 28, 2026. https://resetradar.com/#2026-02-05-opus46-extra-usage-credits 2026-02-05-opus46-extra-usage-credits Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Opus 4.6 launched Feb 5, 2026 with no plan-limit changes; alongside it Anthropic granted $50 in extra-usage credits to Pro/Max users subscribed before Feb 4 11:59 PM PT, claimable by enabling Extra Usage by Feb 16; credits expired 60 days after claiming, usable across Claude, Claude Code, Cowork. Granted same day as announcement (Anthropic's Cat Wu amplified on X ~Feb 7). Widely-flagged caveat: after credits exhaust, Extra Usage continues as pay-as-you-go unless disabled. https://resetradar.com/#2026-01-08-reported-opus-weekly-cut 2026-01-08-reported-opus-weekly-cut Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 claude-code issue #17084 reports that from the weekly reset on Thu Jan 8, 2026, Opus 4.5 ('All models') weekly limits became the most restrictive since launch, e.g. 27% of weekly limit consumed after one day of normal use vs much lower burn in prior weeks; reporters suspected a server-side change around Claude Code v2.1.0. Community-only; no Anthropic acknowledgment. https://resetradar.com/#2026-01-01-holiday-boost-ends 2026-01-01-holiday-boost-ends Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 When the holiday 2x promo lapsed Dec 31, users reported rapid token depletion in early January; one developer's token-level log analysis claimed a ~60% reduction vs baseline. Anthropic dismissed reduction claims as unfounded, attributing perceptions to the expiring bonus. The boost-end itself was pre-announced (published end date); the disputed part is whether baseline limits also dropped. https://resetradar.com/#2025-12-25-holiday-doubling 2025-12-25-holiday-doubling Thu, 25 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Dec 25 00:00 UTC through Dec 31 23:59 UTC 2025: 2x five-hour limits and 2x weekly caps for individual Pro, Max 5x, Max 20x only (Team/Enterprise excluded), on Claude web app, Claude Code, and Claude in Chrome. Weekly caps were RESET at promo start, a built-in flush. Announced via published Help Center terms with a stated end date. Press framed it as a response to OpenAI/Google holiday dev promos; The Register reported it used idle enterprise compute. https://resetradar.com/#2025-11-24-opus45-caps-removed 2025-11-24-opus45-caps-removed Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 With the Opus 4.5 launch Anthropic removed Opus-specific usage caps in Claude and Claude Code, raised overall limits for Max and Team Premium ('roughly the same number of Opus tokens as you previously had with Sonnet'), and gave Sonnet its own limit set to the previous overall limit. Permanent; effective same day as announcement, no advance notice. Anthropic noted limits could be revised for future models. https://resetradar.com/#2025-09-29-reported-weekly-reduction 2025-09-29-reported-weekly-reduction Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 From Sonnet 4.5 launch day, 30+ GitHub reports (aggregated in claude-code issue #9094, filed Oct 7) plus Reddit threads claimed weekly limits were effectively slashed (e.g. Pro from ~40-50h/week to ~6-8h/week vs the Jul 28 guidance of 40-80h). Never acknowledged by Anthropic; community-sourced only. https://resetradar.com/#2025-08-28-weekly-caps-effective 2025-08-28-weekly-caps-effective Thu, 28 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 The weekly caps announced on July 28, 2025 became active: a 7-day reset cycle layered on top of the existing rolling 5-hour window, including a separate weekly cap for Opus usage on Max plans. Anthropic stated the caps would affect fewer than 5% of subscribers based on usage at the time. https://resetradar.com/#2025-07-28-weekly-caps-announced 2025-07-28-weekly-caps-announced Mon, 28 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Anthropic announced that weekly usage limits would be added for Claude Pro and Max subscribers effective August 28, 2025, citing a small number of users running Claude Code continuously. This was the first major layered limit on top of the 5-hour rolling session window. https://resetradar.com/#2025-07-17-quiet-tightening-claude-code 2025-07-17-quiet-tightening-claude-code Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Starting around Jul 14, 2025, heavy Claude Code users (especially $200 Max) hit unexpectedly restrictive limits with only a 'Claude usage limit reached' message; Anthropic confirmed to TechCrunch but declined to explain. First major quiet-tightening incident; foreshadowed the weekly-caps announcement 11 days later. Date is the TechCrunch report date.