Claude Code Weekly Limit, October 2026: Current Rules, Reset Times and Your Options
As of 2026-10-26, Claude Code usage still has two parts: a session limit that resets every five hours and a weekly limit that resets once a week, with the same usage counted against both at the same time and Claude and Claude Code usage counted together; Max plans add a separate weekly limit for Fable. On 2026-10-30 Anthropic renamed Max 5x to Max and Max 20x to Ultra; prices did not change. Verified Ultra accounts have no 5-hour limit, and Anthropic says weekly limits remain unchanged. The rest of this page describes the state on 2026-10-26, and its "Max plans" means today's Max and Ultra (Help Center and pricing page rechecked 2026-11-06). When you hit a limit, the official options are waiting for the reset, upgrading, enabling usage credits (billed at standard API rates, with a monthly spend limit you can set) or switching to Console API credits. On 2026-10-24 and 2026-10-25 (UTC dates) the official status page logged elevated errors, all marked Resolved.
Updated 2026-11-06
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Four key points
Session limit reset
Help Center wording: Your session-based usage limit will reset every five hours. This applies to both Pro and Max.
Weekly limit reset
The weekly limit resets at a fixed time each week assigned to your account, regardless of when you start using Claude or when your subscription began. Your next reset time is in Settings > Usage.
Standard weekly limit since 2026-09-14
The temporary +50% promotion from 2026-05-13 to 2026-09-13 is over. Since 2026-09-14, Claude Code weekly limits are 25% higher than before the promotion (Pro, Max, Team and seat-based Enterprise).
Separate Fable weekly limit on Max
Rechecked 2026-10-26: Max plans have a separate weekly limit for Fable that resets once a week; you can use up to 50% of your weekly usage limits on Fable models at no extra cost, and when you reach your Fable limit you can keep using Fable with usage credits or switch to another model within your plan limits.
Where the weekly limit stands in October 2026
Rechecked on 2026-10-26, the Help Center article Use Claude Code with your Pro or Max plan says paid plans have a session limit that resets every 5 hours and a weekly limit that resets once a week; the same usage counts against both at the same time, and Claude and Claude Code usage is counted together. Max plans add a separate weekly limit for Fable, also reset once a week. Anthropic has not published the numeric size of either limit, and this page does not write any. The official options after a limit are an upgrade, usage credits (billed at standard API rates, with a monthly spend limit you can set), Console API credits or waiting for the reset.
What we checked in October
On 2026-10-08 we re-fetched the Help Center articles on Pro, Max, usage limits, Claude Code with a subscription, usage credits and limit resets, plus the release notes and anthropic.com/news. The latest release note is still 2026-09-28 (Claude Sonnet 5.5 launch). The three October posts on the news page (10-01 Barclays, 10-02 engineer training investment, 10-06 Cyber Verification Program expansion) do not touch the weekly limit. The Help Center now calls paid overage usage credits, and the matching Claude Code command is /usage-credits. A separate article, What is a limit reset, says limit resets are given occasionally to eligible plans and set your session or weekly limit back to full, while the weekly limit still resets on its usual day and time.
Timeline
The temporary +50% Claude Code weekly limit promotion starts; the Help Center notes that 5-hour limits were not affected.
The promotion ended on 2026-09-13. From 2026-09-14, Claude Code weekly limits are 25% higher than before the promotion for Pro, Max, Team and seat-based Enterprise plans.
2026-10-08: the Help Center release notes and anthropic.com/news showed no new October change to the weekly limit. On 2026-10-13 we re-checked the current version of the Help Center article Manage usage credits for paid Claude plans, labelled updated this week: it notes a weekly limit of its own for Fable on Max plans, reset once a week.
Confirmed vs not published
Confirmed (verbatim)
The session limit resets every 5 hours. The Help Center article on using Claude Code with a Pro or Max plan, rechecked 2026-10-26, says Pro and Max plans have a five-hour session limit and a weekly limit, Max plans also have a separate weekly limit for Fable (original: Max plans also have a separate weekly limit for Fable), and these limits are shared across Claude and Claude Code. It also says usage credits are billed at standard API rates and that a monthly spend limit can be set in Settings > Usage; after a limit is reached the options are an upgrade, usage credits, Console API credits or waiting for the reset; and the monthly API credits included with Max cannot be used in Claude Code or for usage credits. The error example in the Claude Code docs is You've hit your weekly limit · resets Mon 12:00am. status.claude.com logged elevated errors on 2026-10-24 and 2026-10-25 (UTC dates), all marked Resolved, and Anthropic's Boris Cherny replied to a user on X on 2026-10-22: No changes on our end. He asked for the full output of claude -p /usage to help debug.
Not published by Anthropic
Anthropic has not published the numeric size of the weekly and 5-hour limits; Anthropic describes the limits only as multiples. When we fetched it on 2026-10-26, the Help Center gave the old multiples: the two larger plans got 5 and 20 times the Pro session allowance. After the 2026-10-30 rename the current wording is that Max gets 5x Pro usage every 5 hours and every week, and Ultra gets 10x Pro usage every week with no 5-hour limit for verified accounts (pricing page and Help Center, fetched 2026-11-06); Anthropic says weekly limits remain unchanged. When limit resets start and who receives them is only described as given occasionally to eligible plans, with no date. A community measurement report argues that quota behaviour differs across accounts (SemiAnalysis, 2026-10-22), but there is no official confirmation and no reproducible method; circulating conversions of the weekly limit are not used here.
Which option after you hit the limit
Wait for the reset or upgrade
No extra spend: the session limit comes back after five hours and the weekly limit at your account's fixed reset time, both shown in the message and in Settings > Usage. Pro can move to Max, and Max to Ultra. On Max plans the separate weekly limit for Fable resets once a week too and is counted apart from the general weekly limit.
Usage credits or pay-as-you-go API
If you do not want to stop: with usage credits enabled, the overage is billed at standard API rates, and you can set a monthly spend limit in Settings > Usage; you can also switch to a Claude Console account and buy API credits. The Help Center says API key users pay per token, with no usage cap and only for actual usage.
How to check what is left and when it resets
① Run /usage in Claude Code: subscribers see plan usage bars, activity stats and a usage breakdown on one screen; the Help Center article on Claude Code also mentions the /status command for your remaining allocation. ② In Settings > Usage on the web, check the next reset time; the Plan usage limits section shows progress for both the current session and the weekly limit. ③ Watch for early warnings such as You've used 85% of your session limit · resets 3:45pm. ④ After hitting a limit, read the reset time in the message. If it is the session or general weekly limit, the official options are to wait for the reset or upgrade your plan, and the docs say you can switch to a lighter model with /model in the meantime; that does not restore the allowance early, because other models draw from the same usage limits. The separate weekly limit for Fable on Max plans is its own layer: you can use up to 50% of your weekly limit on Fable models, and once that layer is used up, the official routes are to keep using Fable with usage credits or switch to another Claude model to keep working within your plan. ⑤ If ANTHROPIC_API_KEY is set on your system, Claude Code authenticates with that key and bills API usage instead of using your subscription.
On QCode: billed per token, outside the subscription weekly limit
QCode's API is billed per token and is not bound by the Anthropic subscription weekly limit; the QCode docs describe the two as separate systems, so QCode usage does not touch your official subscription allowance. In Claude Code, set ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL to https://api.qcode.cc/api, paste your QCode key and use a model such as claude-sonnet-5-5 or claude-opus-5-5. To be clear about the limits: QCode plans have a daily cap; the Daily Cost Limit resets at midnight Beijing Time, the API pauses when it is reached and resumes the next day, and the Opus Weekly Limit in the dashboard is the weekly limit for Claude models and resets on the cycle configured for that key. Per-model rates are listed on /models.
Frequently asked questions
Did the Claude Code weekly limit change in October 2026?
As of 2026-10-26, the Help Center article Use Claude Code with your Pro or Max plan says Pro and Max plans have a session limit that resets every 5 hours and a weekly limit that resets once a week, Max plans add a separate weekly limit for Fable, and these limits are shared across Claude and Claude Code. The weekly limit itself remains the standard level that has been 25% above pre-promotion since 2026-09-14.
When does the weekly limit reset?
At a fixed time each week assigned to your account. The Help Center says your reset day and time stay the same regardless of when you start using Claude or when your subscription began, and you get the full weekly allowance each cycle. The next reset time is in Settings > Usage, and Claude Code shows it in the message, for example resets Mon 12:00am.
How do the five-hour session limit and the weekly limit interact?
They count at the same time. The Claude Code docs say usage counts against the session and weekly allowances at once, and a single burst of heavy activity can exhaust the weekly allowance before the session window resets. The session limit resets every five hours, the weekly limit once a week.
What are the official options once the weekly limit is reached?
Wait for the reset, upgrade your plan, enable usage credits, or switch to Console API credits. Usage credits are billed at standard API rates, and a monthly spend limit can be set in Settings > Usage. If your account has a limit reset, you can use it in Settings > Usage on the web or in Claude Desktop, but the button is not currently available in Claude Code in the terminal or IDE. To keep coding without the subscription weekly limit, you can also move to an API billed per token: if you already have a Personal Plan, add a booster pack when you need more quota; without a plan, Pay-as-you-go Packs start at $4 for a one-time quota you use within 7 days.
How large are the Pro, Max and Ultra weekly limits?
Anthropic does not publish the numbers. It describes them only as multiples. When we fetched it on 2026-10-26, the Help Center gave the old multiples: the two larger plans included five and 20 times the Pro per-session allowance. Since the 2026-10-30 rename, Max gets 5x Pro usage every 5 hours and every week, and Ultra gets 10x Pro usage every week with no 5-hour limit for verified accounts; Anthropic says weekly limits remain unchanged. The Help Center also says that paid plans have a five-hour session limit and a weekly limit that resets once a week, with a separate weekly limit for Fable on Max plans. This page states no figure for any of these limits.
Does Claude Code with an API key hit the weekly limit?
Not the subscription weekly limit. The Help Center says API key users pay per token and there is no usage cap. Calls through QCode are also billed per token and sit outside the subscription weekly limit, though QCode plans have their own daily cap that resets at midnight Beijing Time, and the Opus Weekly Limit in the dashboard resets on the cycle configured for that key.
Sources
Anthropic Help Center support.claude.com: Use Claude Code with your Pro or Max plan (fetched 2026-10-26), Manage usage credits for paid Claude plans (fetched 2026-10-26), What is the Max plan, What is the Pro plan, How do usage and length limits work, What is a limit reset, Usage limit best practices, Claude Fable models on your plan, Monthly API credits for Max and Team plans; the official Claude status page status.claude.com with the elevated errors of 2026-10-24 and 2026-10-25 (fetched 2026-10-26); Claude Code docs code.claude.com/docs/en/errors; Boris Cherny's post on X (2026-10-22); QCode docs docs.qcode.cc, the subscription versus API key page, the Pay-as-you-go Packs page and qcode.cc/pay-as-you-go (fetched 2026-10-26). Previously checked 2026-10-08 and 2026-10-13; rechecked October 2026. Also checked on 2026-11-06: the Help Center article What is the Ultra plan? (support.claude.com/en/articles/17728952) and the pricing page claude.com/pricing (current multiples for Max and Ultra and the verified-account wording), plus the official Claude post on X of 2026-10-30 (prices unchanged, weekly limits unchanged).
Keep shipping when the weekly limit runs out
QCode's API is billed per token and is not tied to the subscription weekly limit. Short on quota? With a Personal Plan, add a booster pack; without a plan, Pay-as-you-go Packs start at $4 for 7 days.
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Figures and quotes on this page were checked on 2026-10-26 against the Anthropic Help Center, the official Claude status page, the Claude Code docs and anthropic.com/news; official pages prevail. Anthropic may change them without notice. QCode quotas and rates follow the dashboard and /models, and model availability follows /models.