{"id":507384,"date":"2026-04-01T16:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/507384\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T16:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:39:15","slug":"claude-code-users-hitting-usage-limits-way-faster-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/507384\/","title":{"rendered":"Claude Code users hitting usage limits &#8216;way faster than expected&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Anthropic said fixing this was the &#8220;top priority&#8221; for the team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Claude users commented under the post on Reddit, with one user saying they hit the token limit &#8220;much later&#8221; on their free account compared to their $100 (\u00a375) a month paid account.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another user, talking about bugs that can form in the code created, commented &#8220;One session in a loop can drain your daily budget in minutes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And another comment stated that the impact wasn&#8217;t just on Claude Code, saying &#8220;A simple one sentence reply to a conversation just took me from 59% usage to 100%. How??&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Just last week, Anthropic introduced peak-hour throttling of its services on Claude, meaning that tokens will get consumed more quickly when demand for the service is higher. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Software developers can use Claude Code and other similar applications as part of their daily workflow to help with specific tasks. Any issues with the service can disrupt their work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Claude Pro subscription costs users $20 a month. Increasing tiers for higher usage can cost $100 or even $200 per month. The company also offers business pricing for larger organisations. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Anthropic recently accidentally released part of its internal source code for Claude Code due to &#8220;human error&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An internal file with 500,000 lines of code was released on GitHub, a popular platform for developers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An Anthropic spokesperson said the release was caused by &#8220;human error, not a security breach,&#8221; and that &#8220;no sensitive customer data or credentials were exposed or involved&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Claude Code&#8217;s source code was already partially known, as it had previously been reverse-engineered by independent developers. An earlier version of the source code had also been leaked in February 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Anthropic is currently in a legal battle with the US government over how its tools can be used by the Department of Defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthropic said fixing this was the &#8220;top priority&#8221; for the team. Claude users commented under the post on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-507384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}