Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

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Anthropic offers 50% higher weekly limits for Claude Code from May to August 2026.

Anthropic is running a limited-time promotion increasing Claude Code weekly usage limits by 50% for Pro, Max, Team, and legacy seat-based Enterprise plans. Free plans and consumption-based Enterprise seats are excluded. The promotion runs May 13 through August 31, 2026, and is automatically applied. Five-hour usage limits are unaffected. After August 31, limits revert to standard levels with no change to billing or plans.

What commenters are saying

Commenters are split between those criticizing Claude's recent model quality and those finding it adequate. Several users report switching to OpenAI's Codex due to better model performance and pricing. Some note Claude Code felt more generous during the promotion. Critics say Opus 5 and Fable 5 are inferior to GPT-5.6-Sol for programming, while others find the models roughly comparable with different strengths. Some suspect the promotion masks recent model behavior that burns more tokens.