Claude Code keeps 50% higher weekly limits to August 31

Anthropic has extended the 50% increase to weekly Claude Code limits through August 31, keeping the extra headroom in place past the cutoff previously documented for the promotion. The company announced the extension on X and says it hopes to make the higher ceilings a permanent part of its plans.

At a glance

• The higher weekly ceilings cover Pro, Max and Team subscribers along with legacy seat-based Enterprise users, and the shorter five-hour usage windows stay untouched, according to AI Catchup.
• AI Catchup and Using Claude had documented the boost as running to August 19, 2026 at 11:59 PM PT, the deadline that the new end date now supersedes.
• Anthropic frames the extension as a step toward a permanent change, while warning that strong demand for its models means capacity may be tight over the coming weeks.

Weekly caps are the ceiling heavy Claude Code users hit first, and a 50% lift extended rather than allowed to lapse reads less like a promotion than like a trial run for new defaults. The capacity caveat is the interesting part: it suggests the permanent ceiling is being sized against available inference rather than against what subscribers would use, which makes August 31 a checkpoint rather than a settled date.

The extension applies to weekly limits only. Pro, Max and Team plans carry the higher allowance, as do legacy seat-based Enterprise seats. The five-hour rolling limits are unaffected, and the increase applies everywhere Claude Code runs: the command line, the IDE extensions, the desktop and the web, according to AI Catchup.

Before the extension, AI Catchup and Using Claude had documented the boost as running to August 19, 2026 at 11:59 PM PT. Anthropic has now set August 31 as the end of the window, twelve days past the earlier date.

Anthropic ties the caveat to demand for its models. The company says it hopes to make the higher weekly limits a permanent part of its plans, but that strong demand means capacity may be tight over the coming weeks, and that it will keep users posted as things develop.

What August 31 leaves unsettled

Anthropic has not said what happens on September 1, whether the limits revert, get extended again or become permanent, and no figure has been given for what a permanent weekly ceiling would look like. The only commitment on record is continued updates, with the capacity warning left as the reason the permanent change is not yet firm.