Anthropic has extended a promotional increase to Claude Code's weekly usage limits. The 50% boost now runs through August 31, 2026. The promotion originally launched on May 13 and was slated to end in July.
The increase applies automatically to Pro, Max, Team, and legacy seat-based Enterprise plans. Free plans and consumption-based Enterprise seats are excluded. Five-hour rolling limits are not affected. Users can verify the higher allowance by running /usage in the CLI.
What's new
- Promotion period: May 13 – August 31, 2026 (11:59 PM PT)
- Increase: 50% higher weekly usage limits in Claude Code
- Eligible plans: Pro, Max, Team, legacy seat-based Enterprise
- Excluded: Free tier, consumption-based Enterprise seats
- Scope: CLI, IDE extensions, desktop app, and web — Claude Code only
- No action required: Applied automatically to qualifying accounts
Context: a summer of limit changes
The weekly boost sits on top of a permanent change Anthropic announced on May 6. That update doubled Claude Code's five-hour rate limits for the same eligible tiers. It also removed peak-hour throttling for Pro and Max accounts. API rate limits for Claude Opus models went up as well.
The May 6 changes were attributed to new compute capacity from a partnership with SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center. The facility brings over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs and 300 megawatts of power online within the month. Weekly caps themselves were introduced in August 2025 as a second layer on top of the rolling five-hour window. They aimed to curb 24/7 automated usage and account sharing. A March 2026 off-peak promotion temporarily doubled five-hour limits outside weekday peak hours. That promotion expired on schedule.
The current weekly boost is additive and temporary. When it ends on August 31, weekly limits revert to their standard levels. Plan pricing and billing do not change.
Why it matters
For developers who rely on Claude Code for daily coding workflows, the extended promotion raises the ceiling on sustained weekly output without requiring a plan upgrade. The distinction between weekly and five-hour limits matters. A user can still hit the shorter rolling window during an intensive session. The higher weekly cap provides more headroom across a full work week. Enterprise admins on legacy seat-based plans should note their teams are included. Those on consumption-based Enterprise agreements are not.
Our take
The promotion extension signals Anthropic is managing compute headroom carefully. It is generous enough to keep power users productive through the summer. It is explicitly temporary so the weekly cap structure remains the long-term governance lever. The real constraint for heavy users remains the five-hour rolling window, which the May 6 doubling addressed permanently.
