Anthropic is permanently raising Claude Code’s standard weekly usage limits by 25%, but it’s ending a temporary promotional boost in mid-September that’s currently propping up what heavy users can run each week, and the two changes together net out to a 17% cut in the capacity active developers have grown used to.
What’s actually changing in Claude Code limits
The 25% increase applies across Pro, Max, Team and seat-based Enterprise plans, lifting the standard weekly allowance above where it’s sat since launch. Taken on its own, that’s a straightforward upgrade to the baseline. The complication is that Anthropic had also been running a temporary promotional boost that pushed weekly Claude Code limits well past that standard cap, and Notebookcheck reports that boost is scheduled to end in mid-September. Once it does, developers land on the new permanent limit rather than the inflated one they’ve been using, which is where the 17% reduction comes from.
- Pro
- Max
- Team
- Seat-based Enterprise
For anyone who hasn’t been pushing against the promotional ceiling, none of this matters: the permanent limit is simply 25% higher than it was before, full stop. It’s specifically the users running long agentic sessions, large multi-file refactors, or anything else that burns through tokens quickly who’ve been leaning on the temporary boost, and they’re the ones who’ll notice a drop in available capacity the week the promotion switches off.
What the arithmetic actually shows
Put the two percentages together and the shape of the change gets clearer. If the original standard limit is treated as 100 units, a 17% cut from the current promotional level has to land exactly on the new permanent limit of 125 units. Working backwards, that means the promotional boost was running at roughly 151 units, or about 51% above the old baseline, by teqpost’s arithmetic. So the new permanent limit keeps roughly half of what the promotion added on top of the original cap, and hands the other half back in September. Developers end up with more headroom than they had before the promotion ever existed, just noticeably less than they’ve had for the past few months.
That’s a meaningfully different story depending on which half you lead with, and coverage of the announcement split accordingly: one headline led with the cut and framed the change around what’s being taken away, while another led with the 25% rise and treated the mid-September rollback as the catch buried in the announcement. Both describe the identical rollout; the only difference is which number comes first.
What to watch next
The actual switch happens in mid-September, when the promotional boost lapses and the new, 25%-higher standard limit becomes the real ceiling. Worth watching whether Anthropic publishes the exact weekly token or usage figures rather than percentages, since teams budgeting Claude Code usage for the next quarter will want raw numbers, not a comparison to a promotion that’s about to disappear. It’s also worth watching whether a similar temporary bump reappears around Anthropic’s next model release. Also worth watching whether the volume of complaints from heavy users prompts any further adjustment before the September cutover actually lands.
