Simon Willison’s Weblog

We’re rolling out new weekly rate limits for Claude Pro and Max in late August. We estimate they’ll apply to less than 5% of subscribers based on current usage. [...]

Some of the biggest Claude Code fans are running it continuously in the background, 24/7.

These uses are remarkable and we want to enable them. But a few outlying cases are very costly to support. For example, one user consumed tens of thousands in model usage on a $200 plan.

— Anthropic