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Claude Code Weekly Limits Promotion: What Ended, What Stayed

The Claude Code +50% weekly limits promotion ended Sep 13, 2026. What replaced it, which plans get the permanent 25% boost, and how to check your usage.

By Engineer Foodie Desk Nov 9, 2026 ✓ Sources checked Nov 9, 2026

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Promotion dates, the permanent 25% sentence and the plan list checked Nov 9, 2026 on Anthropic’s help article Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion (the page behind clau.de/cc-50-promo). Reset rules checked Nov 9, 2026 in How do usage and length limits work?, the Claude Code errors reference and claude.com/pricing. Every source is listed at the bottom. No affiliate links on this page (how we work).

This page covers one thing: the Claude Code +50% weekly promotion and the smaller boost that replaced it. If you want the full mechanics of the 5-hour and weekly windows, that’s Claude Code usage limits. If you’re staring at a lockout message, go to Claude Code usage limit reached. One-line version of resets: weekly limits “reset at a fixed time each week that is assigned to your account.”

Is the Claude Code +50% weekly limits promotion still on?

No. It ended on September 13, 2026 at 11:59 PM PT, and Anthropic’s own article (verified Nov 9, 2026) says what replaced it: “starting September 14, 2026, weekly limits in Claude Code are 25% higher than they were before the promotion for Pro, Max, Ultra, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans.”

So the promo is over, but it isn’t a clean rollback. Marvel post-credits scene energy: the movie ended, the lights came up, and Anthropic slipped in one more bit before you reached the parking lot. A permanent +25% is a smaller sequel than +50%, but it’s a sequel.

Anthropic is candid about it: “We were planning to return weekly limits to their original levels, but we know many of you found the extra usage helpful.” Companies don’t usually write “we were going to take it all back” into a help article. I’ll give them that one.

Timeline: start, end, and the permanent 25%

Only dates Anthropic’s article states (verified Nov 9, 2026):

Date	Change	Source
May 13, 2026	Weekly limit in Claude Code 50% higher	Anthropic help
Sep 13, 2026	Promo ends, 11:59 PM PT	Anthropic help (T&C)
Sep 14, 2026	Weekly limits 25% above pre-promo	Anthropic help

Two details worth knowing:

The article title says “May–August 2026”, but the body and terms say the offer ran “through September 13, 2026.” I’m going with the text. The page lists no extension dates, so neither do I.
No action was ever needed. “No action was required to participate. If you were on an eligible plan, the increased weekly limit was automatically applied to your account.” The same goes for the permanent change: there’s no toggle to find.

The article shows “Updated over a week ago” as of Nov 9, 2026, with no exact date printed on the page.

Up 25% or down 17%? The math

Both headlines are true. It depends which week you compare against.

Anthropic doesn’t publish absolute weekly numbers (no hours, no messages, no tokens), so let’s call your pre-promotion weekly limit 1.0. This is the Rain Man part: count the toothpicks, don’t guess them.

Period	Weekly limit	vs pre-promo
Before May 13, 2026	1.0	baseline
May 13 – Sep 13, 2026	1.5	+50%
From Sep 14, 2026	1.25	+25%

Versus before the promotion: 1.25 ÷ 1.0 = 25% more weekly room.
Versus the promotion itself: 1.25 ÷ 1.5 = 0.833, so roughly 16.7% less than what you had in summer 2026. (Our arithmetic from Anthropic’s percentages.)

If your week felt shorter in mid-September 2026, you weren’t imagining it: about a sixth of the promo-level allowance went away overnight. If you joined after the promo, you never saw 1.5 and simply get a 25% bigger week than the old baseline. Same number, two moods.

What I won’t do is turn 1.25 into “X hours of Opus.” Anthropic says usage depends on “the length and complexity of your conversations, the features you use, which Claude model you’re chatting with, and the effort level you’ve selected” (usage limits help, verified Nov 9, 2026). A fixed weekly hour count is a guess.

Which plans get it, and what didn’t change

Permanent +25% (from Sep 14, 2026): Pro, Max, Ultra, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans, per the article’s top paragraph.

The original +50% promotion: “available for Pro, Max, and Team plans, as well as legacy seat-based users on Enterprise plans. Free plans and consumption-based Enterprise seats were not included in this promotion.”

So, plan by plan:

Free: excluded from the promotion and absent from the permanent list. Free has no Claude Code anyway (claude.com/pricing, verified Nov 9, 2026).
Pro ($20/mo, or $17/mo billed $200 yearly): got the promo, gets the permanent +25%.
Max ($100/mo): same.
Ultra ($200/mo): named in the permanent list. The promo text predates the rename (“The Max 20x plan is now called the Ultra plan”, Ultra help, verified Nov 9, 2026) and doesn’t say which Max tier it covered, so I won’t either.
Team and seat-based Enterprise: in both lists. Consumption-based Enterprise: not in the promo; usage is billed on consumption.

What stayed the same:

5-hour limits. “5-hour usage limits were not affected by this promotion.” The promotion “increased weekly usage limits only.” The permanent sentence also talks about weekly limits only.
Everything outside Claude Code. The +50% “applied to Claude Code only, everywhere you use it: the CLI, IDE extensions, desktop, and the web. Usage limits for other Claude products, like Claude (web, desktop, and mobile) and Claude Cowork, were unchanged.”

Prices from claude.com/pricing, verified Nov 9, 2026, before tax. Plan comparison: Claude Max 5x vs Ultra. Full price breakdown: Claude Code pricing.

How to check your own weekly limit

Three places, all from Anthropic’s docs:

In the CLI: run /usage. The promo article itself says you “were able to run /usage in the CLI to view your updated limits,” and the errors reference says “Run /usage to see your plan limits and when they reset” (verified Nov 9, 2026).
On the web: Settings > Usage. “You can see your next reset time in Settings > Usage,” and the current 5-hour window shows under Current session (usage limits help, verified Nov 9, 2026).
When you hit it: Claude Code prints the reset time. Anthropic’s example string is You've hit your weekly limit · resets Mon 12:00am (errors reference, verified Nov 9, 2026).

Your reset day doesn’t drift: “Your reset day and time stay the same regardless of when you start using Claude or when your subscription begins, and you receive your full weekly allowance each cycle.”

Why people still think the limit “shrank”

Two open GitHub issues from Nov 7–8, 2026 (verified Nov 9, 2026):

#108206: weekly limit shown as reached right after upgrading Pro → Ultra. The reporter later corrected it: the Pro weekly limit had “most likely” already been hit, and the remaining claim is that the usage percentage carried over 1:1 after the upgrade. No Anthropic reply on the issue as of Nov 9, 2026.
#108238: Desktop side sessions waking parent sessions, with the reporter saying “a weekly limit that used to last a week now runs out in about a day.” Labeled a regression, no Anthropic reply as of Nov 9, 2026.

Neither is about the promotion, but both explain why a week can feel smaller than “+25%”. Check /usage before blaming the calendar.

Here’s what I’d do

Stop waiting for the 50% to come back. Anthropic’s page describes it in the past tense. Plan around 1.25x the pre-promo week.
If summer 2026 was your benchmark, budget for about 17% less weekly room than you had then, and schedule the heavy agent runs early in your reset cycle (your reset day is fixed; see it in Settings > Usage).
If you keep hitting the weekly wall, the documented options are usage credits at standard API rates (/usage-credits on Pro, Max, Ultra), upgrading (Pro → Max $100 → Ultra $200), or waiting. Don’t buy a quota-bypass tool; there’s no legit one.
If you’re comparing tools because of the cap, Claude Code alternatives and AI coding tools compared have the dated options.

Honest take: ending a promo is normal, and leaving half of it behind is better than most companies do. What still bugs me is the missing absolute number. “25% higher” than a figure nobody will tell you is a very polite way of saying “trust us.”

FAQ

Is the Claude Code 50% weekly limit promotion over? Yes; Anthropic’s terms say it ran from May 13, 2026 through September 13, 2026 at 11:59 PM PT (support.claude.com, verified Nov 9, 2026).

Are Claude Code weekly limits 25% higher since the promotion ended? Yes, in Anthropic’s words: “starting September 14, 2026, weekly limits in Claude Code are 25% higher than they were before the promotion for Pro, Max, Ultra, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans” (verified Nov 9, 2026).

Does the promotion apply to Claude Ultra? The permanent 25% boost lists Ultra by name; the original +50% text lists Pro, Max, Team and legacy seat-based Enterprise and predates the Ultra name.

Did five-hour limits change? No; Anthropic says “5-hour usage limits were not affected by this promotion,” and the permanent change covers weekly limits only.

Does the 25% boost apply to Claude chat? The promotion applied to Claude Code only, and Anthropic says usage limits for Claude on web, desktop, mobile and Claude Cowork were unchanged.

Sources

Anthropic, Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion (dates, 11:59 PM PT end, +50% scope, eligible plans, permanent 25% sentence, 5-hour limits unaffected, Claude Code only): https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15910845-claude-code-may-august-2026-weekly-limits-promotion (via clau.de/cc-50-promo; verified 2026-11-09)
Anthropic, How do usage and length limits work? (session + weekly limits, fixed weekly reset, Settings > Usage, shared surfaces, limits may change): https://support.claude.com/en/articles/11647753-how-do-usage-and-length-limits-work (verified 2026-11-09)
Claude Code errors reference (You've hit your weekly limit · resets Mon 12:00am, /usage, /usage-credits): https://code.claude.com/docs/en/errors (verified 2026-11-09)
Claude pricing (Pro $20 / $17 annual, Max $100, Ultra $200, Claude Code by plan, tax note): https://claude.com/pricing (verified 2026-11-09)
Anthropic, What is the Ultra plan? (“The Max 20x plan is now called the Ultra plan”): https://support.claude.com/en/articles/17728952-what-is-the-ultra-plan (verified 2026-11-09)
GitHub anthropics/claude-code #108206 (weekly limit after Pro → Ultra upgrade): https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/108206 (verified 2026-11-09)
GitHub anthropics/claude-code #108238 (Desktop side sessions and weekly limit): https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/108238 (verified 2026-11-09)