[BUG] Claude usage limit reached. Your limit will reset at 3pm
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- [x] I am using the latest version of Claude Code
What's Wrong?
I am experiencing an unusual and persistent issue where the token usage limit for Claude Code is not resetting as expected, leading to a lockout that has lasted over 24 hours.
Normally, the usage tokens seem to reset every 5 hours. However, since 4:00 PM yesterday (Wednesday, October 8th), I have been unable to use the service.
The application currently indicates that the tokens will reset at 3:00 PM today (Thursday, October 9th), which is a full 23-hour gap since I was locked out, and significantly different from the usual 5-hour cycle.
What Should Happen?
The token usage should reset approximately every 5 hours, or at minimum, the 24-hour reset limit should be correctly calculated and implemented to prevent a full-day service interruption.
Error Messages/Logs
Claude usage limit reached. Your limit will reset
at 3pm (America/Santiago).Steps to Reproduce
1.-Open the terminal or the client interface where you typically interact with Claude Code (e.g., Cursor IDE's AI chat/prompt window).
2.-Attempt to send any prompt or command to Claude Code.
3.-The service immediately returns the following message, indicating the limit has been reached and the reset time is delayed/incorrect:
-Claude usage limit reached. Your limit will reset at 3pm (America/Santiago).
Context: The issue is not dependent on the content of the prompt; any attempt to utilize the service while locked out triggers this exact response. This message has persisted for almost 24 hours, despite the normal 5-hour reset cycle.
Claude Model
Sonnet (default)
Is this a regression?
Yes, this worked in a previous version
Last Working Version
_No response_
Claude Code Version
1.0.39
Platform
Anthropic API
Operating System
macOS
Terminal/Shell
Cursor
Additional Information
_No response_
12 Comments
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Same here, looking at my usage settings page https://claude.ai/settings/usage I see that opus is maxed out, but i'm trying to use sonnet as confirmed by /model
I think they're accidentally routing sonnet calls to opus maybe?
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I have a similar experience. My usage of Opus is at 95%, and now even accidentally querying Opus once a day immediately blocks access to everything—that's what I just did now. I understand that Claude is trying to limit usage somehow, but this seems to me like a punishment for using the services, when it blocks access to everything as a penalty. We're not children.
Nothing else remains but to find a replacement for Claude. They are certainly not irreplaceable, and I think that this usage policy of Claude, which is unclear and punitive, will ensure a loss of customers for them. And in the end, I wish that for them too.
Now it resets every five hours, which is so frustrating. I think they just changed the policy.
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same here ⎿ You've hit your limit · resets 3pm (Asia/Tbilisi)
⎿ You've hit your limit · resets 6pm (UTC)
❯ /usage
Current session
██████████████████████████████████████████ 84% used
Resets 5:59pm (UTC)
Current week (all models)
██████████████████████████████ 60% used
Resets 4:59pm (UTC)
Same issue here!
● Agent "Read key frontend files" completed
⎿ You've hit your limit · resets 1am (Europe/Warsaw)
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why is Claude having this limit on a paid version??? I am sure some other tool will take over this space soon and you have will no valued customers. You’ve hit your limit for Claude messages. Limits will reset at 4:00 AM.
bc what you get out of the payed plan is far far more than what you would get with a pay-as-you-go API, thats why everyone is so pissed you cant use the payed plan like a API anymore in other tools. — The issue is not the limit, its that its either displayed wrong or applied to early inside claude-code.
There are other solutions without a limit, but either they have a very small context-window, use your data for profit, or get capital from sectors which are well below the ethical standarts anthropics try to keep.
Closing for now — inactive for too long. Please open a new issue if this is still relevant.
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