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

Starting September 14, Claude Code subscribers have about 17% less weekly usage than they did the week before. That day Anthropic replaced a temporary 50% boost to weekly limits with a permanent increase of 25% over the original baseline. Bleepingcomputer reported that Anthropic first presented the change as a win. It deleted that post after criticism, then published a follow-up that states the 17% reduction against the current boost outright.

The permanent level applies to Pro, Max, Team and seat-based Enterprise plans. Both percentages use the same old standard, so the boost put subscribers at one and a half times that level and the new cap puts them at one and a quarter. That gap is the 17%. The 25% is accurate, but it is measured against a baseline these plans haven’t run on since May 13. The follow-up also says more usage changes are coming, aimed at giving subscribers more visibility and control over their usage. Anthropic hasn’t said which changes or when.

The weekly cap has a short history, and most of it has been about getting this number right:

• July 28, 2025: Anthropic announces weekly rate limits for Claude Pro and Max, effective August 28. The company said they would affect “less than 5% of subscribers based on current usage” and target users running Claude Code “continuously in the background, 24/7,” per TechCrunch.
• August 28, 2025: the weekly limits take effect on top of the existing five-hour limits, which stay in place.
• May 13, 2026: a temporary boost lifts weekly limits 50% above the standard level.
• Later in the summer: the boost is extended through August 31. Anthropic said it hoped to make the increase permanent but warned that strong demand for its models could keep capacity tight. The end date later moved to September 13.
• September 8: an individual suit over Claude Max usage limits expands into a class action. The complaint says the separate weekly ceiling wasn’t adequately disclosed at signup.
• September 13: the 50% boost expires.
• September 14: the permanent level of 25% above the original baseline takes over.

In August, Anthropic said it hoped to make the increase permanent. What it made permanent was half of it. The 2025 rollout was pitched as a cap that would rarely bind, while this step lowers the ceiling for every subscriber on the covered plans who was using the boost.

How the reduction hits depends on how the two limits stack. The five-hour limit is a rolling window that starts with your first message. The weekly limit resets at a fixed time assigned to each account. Both are shared across Claude Code, claude.ai chat and the desktop app, so a long chat session draws on the same weekly budget as an agent run.

Anthropic doesn’t publish exact token allowances. Plans are sized relative to Pro, with Max sold as 5x or 20x. That means the 17% comes off a figure subscribers can’t see directly. The closest you can get is /usage inside a Claude Code session, which shows how much of the budget is left.