Anthropic deleted the post that called a cut a 25% raise

A 25% increase that works out to a 17% cut is the kind of arithmetic that gets a post deleted, and it did. As Bleeping Computer reports, Claude Code's standard weekly limits rise 25% over the original baseline on September 14, while the temporary 50% boost they replace runs only through September 13.

At a glance

• The original post framed the change as an increase; after criticism Anthropic deleted it and published a follow-up that states the 17% reduction against the current boost outright.
• The new baseline covers Pro, Max, Team and seat-based Enterprise plans and is permanent, while the 50% cushion it replaces expires on September 13 and was always billed as temporary.
• Anthropic says further usage changes are coming, aimed at visibility and control over usage, but the follow-up post names neither the changes themselves nor a date for them.

If you have not been tracking the meter, the limits move often. According to Explainx, Anthropic has changed Claude's usage limits at least three times since August 2025: weekly caps on top of the rolling window, a two-week off-peak doubling in March 2026, and a permanent doubling of Claude Code's five-hour limits on May 6, 2026. In April 2026, Business Insider reported a pricing experiment that briefly dropped Claude Code from the Pro listing, which Anthropic reverted.

The permanent 25% lands 17% below today's meter

Two numbers carry the whole story. Starting September 14, Claude Code's standard weekly limits go up 25% over the original baseline for Pro, Max, Team and seat-based Enterprise plans, and that raise is permanent. The temporary 50% boost it replaces runs through September 13.

Measured against the original baseline, 25% is more. Measured against the meter subscribers have been running on for weeks, it is 17% less, and that is the number Anthropic ended up publishing itself.

The company first presented the change as a win, then pulled the post. The follow-up states the 17% reduction against the current boost plainly, and says more usage changes are on the way, aimed at visibility and control over usage.

Anthropic's own notice dated the boosts to the day

The promotions were never open-ended, and the product said so. According to Explainx, a screenshot of the claude.ai usage panel carried a boost notice that put a calendar date on each one:

Your limits are temporarily boosted. Your weekly Claude Code limit is 50% higher through August 19, and your Cowork limit is 100% higher through August 5.

The same copy, Explainx reports, told users that when each promotion ends, limits return to their plan's standard amounts, and the 50%-higher-through-August-19 window matched an extension Anthropic announced on July 18. It was ClaudeDevs, per the same outlet, that announced the end of the 50% weekly promo and the permanent 25% raise replacing it, a net cut of roughly 17% against the live meter.

One pool feeds Claude Code, the web app and your phone

A weekly cap only matters once you know what drains it. According to Morph, Claude Code shares a single usage pool with Claude's web, desktop and mobile apps: every prompt, tool call, file read and thinking block comes out of the same plan allowance, metered against a rolling five-hour session with a weekly limit stacked on top.

Think of a phone plan where calls, texts and data all draw on one bucket. Morph notes that Anthropic publishes no token count for any plan, so usage is expressed as a share of a session: Pro gives at least five times the usage per session compared to the free service, Max 5x five times more per session than Pro, Max 20x twenty times more per session than Pro.

How fast you burn through it depends on message length, attachment size, conversation length, tool use such as Research and web search, the model you select and the effort level you set, Morph says, which is why two developers on the same plan can spend very differently in one hour.

Anthropic credited earlier raises to 300 megawatts of new capacity

When the limits went up before, Anthropic explained where the headroom came from. In its own posts the company described doubling Claude Code's five-hour rate limits for Pro, Max, Team and seat-based Enterprise plans, removing the peak hours limit reduction on Claude Code for Pro and Max accounts, and raising API rate limits considerably for Claude Opus models, crediting new compute including a SpaceX partnership giving access to more than 300 megawatts of new capacity, over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs, within the month.

The published capacity plans run further out: an up to 5 gigawatt agreement with Amazon that includes nearly 1 GW of new capacity by the end of 2026, a 5 GW agreement with Google and Broadcom coming online from 2027, a partnership with Microsoft and NVIDIA covering $30 billion of Azure capacity, and a $50 billion investment in American AI infrastructure with Fluidstack.

What the follow-up does not spell out is which usage changes are coming, or when. Since Anthropic publishes no token count for any plan, according to Morph, all three percentages here are shares of a quantity subscribers never actually see. Oddly, in our view, the permanent figure was stated against the original baseline rather than against the boosted meter people have been working with, which is the exact comparison the deleted post was criticised for.

The September 13 handover

On September 13 the 50% boost expires, and on September 14 the permanent 25% baseline takes over for Pro, Max, Team and seat-based Enterprise plans. The open item after that is the promised work on visibility and control over usage, which comes with no date and no detail. Worth watching as well: whether the next announcement quotes limits against the original baseline or against the meter you are running on that week.