Comment by tom1337
8 hours ago
I have no first-hand experience with the Max subscription (which the $200 plan is) but having read a few discussions here and on GitHub [1] it seems that Anthropic has tanked the usage limits in the last few weeks and thus I would argue that you would run into limits pretty quick if you using it (unsupervised) for 24h each day.
The employee in that thread claims that they didn't change the rate limits and when they look into it, it's usually noob error.
It's a really low quality github issue thread. People making claims with zero data, just vibes, yet it's trivial to get the data to back the claims.
The guy who responds to the employee even claims that his "lawyer is already on the case" in some lame threat.
I wonder how many of these people had 30 MCP servers installed using 150k of their 200k context in every prompt.
Yea there are some weird replies in that thread. My few highlights were "This is my livelihood, not a hobby or sideproject" or "I just purchased a third $200 MAX plan and instantly hit rate limits". While I agree that it might not be Anthropics fault I've gotta admit that I found Anthropic to be rather vague regarding their rate limits. They seem to have totally dynamic rate limits based on usage and not a fixed "messages per hour" or "tokens per hour" based approach. Their free tier usage page states "Also, the number of messages you can send will vary based on demand, and we may impose other types of usage limits to ensure fair access to all users." [1] while the Pro plan page just says "During peak hours, the Pro plan offers at least five times the usage per session compared to our free service." [2] and Max then 5x or 20x it depending on the price you pay. If they just have more demand or reduced the free tier rate limit, all plans have a reduced limit and it will be totally within their communication. OpenAI at least gives you a specific amount of messages per timeframe (which I find more transparent). [4]
1) https://support.claude.com/en/articles/8602283-about-free-cl... 2) https://support.claude.com/en/articles/8324991-about-claude-... 3) https://support.claude.com/en/articles/11014257-about-claude... 4) https://help.openai.com/en/articles/11909943-gpt-52-in-chatg...