THE 60-SECOND VERSION
● The boost ended at 11:59pm PT on 13 September, after four extensions.
● Reported: permanent 25 percent over baseline, 17 percent below yesterday.
● Documented: limits "return to their standard levels". No percentage anywhere on an Anthropic page.
● Run /usage. It is the only thing that tells you what you actually have.
The limits landed
The 50 percent Claude Code boost ended at 11:59pm PT last night, having been extended four times from an original 13 July deadline.
What replaces it is reported everywhere — including by us — as a permanent 25 percent increase over the pre-May baseline. Indexed: 100 before May, 150 yesterday, 125 today.
The detail worth knowing is that the 25 percent figure appears in one ClaudeDevs post and on no Anthropic-owned documentation page. The Help Center states only that weekly limits return to their standard levels, which is a different claim. Standard could mean 100.
The social post is presumably accurate. But a number that exists only in a social post is not one to plan around, which is why the advice today is to run /usage rather than trust any reported figure.
What is affected, what is not, and what to do today →
What to do rather than switch
Capacity changed. Capability did not. Claude Code still ranks first among agent harnesses, and switching because your allowance moved means paying a migration cost to solve a budgeting problem.
Trimming context usually recovers more than 17 percent at no cost — stop sending full context every step, cap diff sizes, restart long sessions from a summary.
What switching actually costs, option by option →
The rest of the month
| Date | What happens |
|---|
| Sept 29 | OpenAI DevDay, San Francisco |
| Sept, unconfirmed | OpenAI listing window. No public S-1 on EDGAR |
| Sept, indicated | Grok 4.7. Still no model ID published |
| Oct 1 | OpenAI vs Apple hearing |
| Oct 24 | deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner deprecated |
| Nov 12 | OpenAI models leave Cursor |
Still open
FAQ
What changed on 14 September?
The 50 percent Claude Code weekly boost ended at 11:59pm PT on the 13th. It is replaced by what is reported as a permanent 25 percent increase over the pre-May baseline — 17 percent below yesterday's level.
Is the 25 percent confirmed by Anthropic?
It appears in the official ClaudeDevs post on X. It does not appear on any Anthropic-owned documentation page, which states only that limits return to standard levels.
How do I check what I have?
Run /usage in Claude Code. That reflects your actual allowance rather than any reported figure.
Does this affect API users?
No. The promotion applied to subscription plans only.