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Know when Claude's usage limits change.
The 5-hour window, the weekly cap, the surprise flushes and the boosts that quietly expire. Reset Radar keeps the whole picture in one place and tells you the moment anything moves, so the plan you pay for is the plan you actually use.
The trend
Claude's limit headroom over time
How much you can actually use, indexed to each limit's introduction level (100). Steps up are doublings and boosts; steps down are promotions ending. Dashed means announced or projected, not yet history.
The record
Every limit change on record
One chronological line, newest first: announced changes ahead of today, then history. The date on every row is when the change takes or took effect; open a row for the announcement date, sources, and when it entered this log. Projections are always marked as what they are; the funnel filters and regroups the view.
What the dots, chips, and markers mean
Past change that gave you more headroom
Past change that reduced it
Other past change
Announced: dated, not yet in effect
Projected: our reading of the pattern, not an announcement
No advance noticeThe change arrived unannounced; Announced aheadmeant you could plan for it. Both show inside an opened row.
A date like "Aug 2026 ?" means we expect the month but not the exact day.
HitMissedHow past projections resolved against reality
As announcedSupersededWhether a scheduled change took effect as given, or was moved or replaced before it did
On the chart: a filled diamond is a sudden flush, an outlined diamond a planned one, and the optional event lines mark boosts and policy changes in the color of their impact. Hover any of them for context; click to jump here.
In the chart above, alternating green and blue dashes mean the two limits sit at the same level right now.
Saw a reset we have not logged? Tell us
Your clock
When is your next reset?
Limits roll per user, so only you know your anchors. Enter them once; they stay in your browser and never leave it.
Estimates from the documented mechanics. The numbers inside your Claude apps are the authoritative ones.
The mechanics
How Claude's limits actually work
/usage command and the app's usage panel show your own next reset time. Unused headroom does not carry over, so there is nothing to gain by holding back when a reset is near.
Questions
Questions people ask
When does Claude usage reset?
The 5-hour window resets five hours after your first message, per user. Weekly caps reset on a rolling 7-day anchor. There is no global reset o'clock; your own apps show your exact times: Claude Code under /usage, the Claude app in its usage panel.
When does the Claude weekly limit reset?
On a rolling 7-day anchor set when you first hit the window, per user, so there is no shared weekday. Claude Code shows your exact time under /usage as "resets on"; the Claude app shows it in the usage panel. Max plans also carry a separate weekly Opus cap.
Is Claude's usage limit the same as its rate limit?
In everyday use, yes: when people ask when Claude's rate limit resets, they usually mean the 5-hour window and the weekly cap tracked here, and those reset as described above. Strictly, rate limits are the API's per-minute request and token caps, a separate mechanism that Reset Radar does not track.
Why did my usage bar reset early?
Usually one of four things: your 5-hour window rolled over, your weekly cap reset on its anchor, Anthropic flushed everyone's counters (as on May 15, 2026), or a promotion started or ended. Check the timeline; if nothing matches, report it and watch whether others saw the same.
Where does the data come from?
Anthropic's status page and announcements, press and community documentation (linked on every event), and reader reports, which we only ever show in aggregate. Curated facts and crowd signal are always labeled apart.
Can you tell whether a reset hit everyone or just me?
Partly. Reports carry plan and optional country, so a spike across plans and countries within minutes reads as global, while a cluster in one plan or region points at a scoped change. One report alone proves little; a pattern across many is what we act on.
Is this an official Anthropic site?
No. Reset Radar is independent, with no affiliation to Anthropic. Claude is a trademark of Anthropic, PBC; we reference it only to describe what we track, and your own Claude apps remain the authoritative source.
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One email the moment limits move: ride the boosts while they last, plan around the resets, and stop rationing a quota that was about to refill anyway.