--- title: Claude Code Usage Limits: Weekly Limit and Reset Times description: Claude Code usage on Pro and Max plans is governed by two overlapping limits: a rolling 5-hour session window and a separate weekly cap, both shared with... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/claude-code-usage-limits-weekly-limit-and-reset-times-lzdyzr6y3 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Claude Code Usage Limits: Weekly Limit and Reset Times | daily.dev og:description: Claude Code usage on Pro and Max plans is governed by two overlapping limits: a rolling 5-hour session window and a separate weekly cap, both shared with... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/claude-code-usage-limits-weekly-limit-and-reset-times-lzdyzr6y3 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/LZdyzr6Y3.png og:image:alt: Claude Code Usage Limits: Weekly Limit and Reset Times og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Claude Code Usage Limits: Weekly Limit and Reset Times **[Alex CloudStar](https://daily.dev/sources/alexcloudstar)** · [@alexcloudstar](https://daily.dev/alexcloudstar) · 24 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Claude Code usage on Pro and Max plans is governed by two overlapping limits: a rolling 5-hour session window and a separate weekly cap, both shared with claude.ai. A weekly-limit promotion that boosted allowances by 50% ran from May 13 to September 13, 2026; since September 14 the limits remain 25% higher than before the promotion. Anthropic publishes no exact token or message counts, only relative capacity: Max 5x gives 5 times Pro's usage at $100/month, Max 20x gives 20 times at $200/month. Long uncleared sessions, subagents, and agent teams (roughly 7x more tokens when teammates run in plan mode) are among the biggest drains. The /usage command shows usage bars, attribution by skill/subagent/MCP server, and fix recommendations. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How do the Claude Code weekly and 5-hour usage limits actually work together? Claude Code enforces two limits simultaneously on Pro and Max plans: a rolling 5-hour session window and a separate weekly cap, both shared with claude.ai activity including IDE extensions. A large burst of activity can exhaust the weekly allowance even while the 5-hour window still has room left, meaning the session limit resetting does not refill the weekly allowance. _Developers tuning their Claude Code workflow can track usage-limit nuances like this on daily.dev._ ### Why do Claude Code agent teams burn through usage limits so much faster than a single session? Agent teams use roughly 7 times more tokens than a standard session when teammates run in plan mode, because each teammate keeps its own separate context window. Every subagent also sends its own requests on top of the main conversation, and those requests still draw on the same usage allowance, making agent teams a heavy but not free-lunch way to parallelize work. _Anyone weighing multi-agent coding setups against cost can compare these tradeoffs via daily.dev._ ### Did Claude Code's weekly usage limits change recently, and is the increase permanent? A promotion raised Claude Code weekly limits by 50% from May 13 through September 13, 2026, and that promotion has ended. However, Anthropic kept part of the boost: since September 14, weekly limits in Claude Code are 25% higher than they were before the promotion started. The 5-hour session limits were never part of this promotion. _Developers budgeting Claude Code usage can keep track of plan changes like this through daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Anthropic promised 20x more usage. 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