How Claude usage limits work

Claude plans have a rolling 5-hour session limit and a separate weekly limit, on top of the occasional global/partial resets tracked on this site. Everything below is sourced directly to Anthropic's own support pages, docs, and posts — see the "Sources" line at the end of each section.

The 5-hour session limit

Every Claude plan has a usage limit that resets on a rolling five-hour window. What differs is the size of that window's allowance — paid plans get a multiple of what Pro gets.

Plan5-hour allowance
FreeSession-based limit; the exact number varies with demand
ProBaseline allowance
Max 5x5x Pro's per-session allowance
Max 20x20x Pro's per-session allowance
Team Standard seat1.25x Pro's per-session allowance
Team Premium seat6.25x Pro's per-session allowance
Usage-based Enterprise (current model)No plan- or seat-level usage limits
Legacy seat-based Enterprise (Standard/Premium seats)Still has usage limits

The weekly limit

Pro, Max and Team also have a weekly usage limit on top of the five-hour one. It resets at a fixed time assigned to your account, not on a rolling clock that starts when you first use Claude.

Do Claude Code and claude.ai chat share one limit?

Yes — there's a single pool per account, not a separate allowance per app.

Where to see your usage

What uses your limit faster

What to do once you hit a limit

Recent official changes

A short, dated timeline of the limit changes Anthropic has actually announced — not a recurring schedule, just what's happened so far.

For your own account's exact numbers, check claude.ai's Settings → Usage, or run /usage in Claude Code — this site has no access to your account.

Frequently asked questions

Is a global reset the same as my personal usage limit resetting?

No. Your 5-hour and weekly windows roll on their own account-level schedule regardless of anything on this page. The resets tracked here are separate, occasional events Anthropic announces for some or all users at once.

What's the difference between the 5-hour limit and the weekly limit?

The 5-hour limit is a rolling session window every plan has, sized differently per plan (Max and Team seats get a multiple of Pro's allowance). The weekly limit is a separate cap on Pro, Max and Team that resets at a fixed day and time assigned to your account, not on a 7-day timer from when you started. See the sections above for the exact multiples and sources.

When does my 5-hour session window start?

Anthropic's consumer documentation (Pro, Max, Team) doesn't say. The only official statement of a start time is in the Claude for Government docs, which say the window starts at your first message and rounds reset times to the top of the hour — and that page is explicitly scoped to the government product.

When does my weekly limit reset?

At a fixed time each week assigned to your account — it doesn't move based on when you start using Claude. Anthropic hasn't published which weekday or hour that is for any given account; check Settings → Usage for your own.

Do Claude Code and claude.ai chat share the same usage limit?

Yes. Anthropic's support pages say all activity across claude.ai, Claude Code and Claude Desktop draws from the same usage pool for Pro and Max — there's no separate allowance per surface.

What makes me use up my limit faster?

Anthropic's own list: message length, attachment size, conversation length, tool usage, model choice, and effort level. Long conversations that trigger automatic context management, and token-heavy tools or connectors, also use more of the limit; cached project content counts less when it's reused.

Where do I check my usage in Claude Code?

Run /usage — it shows your plan's usage bars and each window's reset time. An older Help Center article pointed Pro/Max users to a different command for this; the current Claude Code docs describe /usage as the one that shows plan limits.