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Add a 5 hour timer so that us with MAX subs can know when to come back to our Opus work.

I like it. thanks for the effort.

I was thinking that on this, folks need a cron task to run a trivial prompt at 5-6am and get that 5hr timer running so that it the majority of the quota is available in the working day morning, and then a new 5hr block starts around lunch time. This should maximise use of included tokens by a standard work day spanning 3 blocks rather than 2

Also useful for paid APIs like DeepSeek's, where they have cheaper inference price (50%/75% off) for UTC 16:30-00:30, so being able to schedule some stuff you know would take a ton of tokens for that time period would make sense.

It hard resets limits every 5 hours instead of a sliding window?

That’s what their usage warning prompts seem to indicate.

Thinking of switching from API access to Max 20x tomorrow for a more consistent bill.

Been using $50-100 of Opus tokens through API access per day. Think I’ll hit the Max 20x limits and get put in timeout?

I wish Max could automatically overflow to API access when it times out so I would need to have token anxiety.

I moved to Max after projecting a $2,000 annual API bill. I haven't yet hit five hour limits, but login/ toggles easily between plans. I believe the interface tells you when you've hit a limit, but as I said I don't know first hand.

According to CCUsage, I hit limits on Opus usage around the equivalent of $150. If we naively extrapolate, that suggests about $600 of Opus usage per session on Max 20x.

Can you help me understand how that works?

I thought you needed an API key to work with Claude Code

They give you Claude Code usage on all the paid plans now. A certain amount of usage is shared between Chat and Code.

Not all paid plans, just Max. Pro doesn’t get access to Claude Code.

This changed recently (like a day ago or so), pro has access to Claude code now. They mention it's for "light coding work" on the pro plan: https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/11145838-using-cla...

Also Sonnet only, no Opus. That being said it lets you use the included stuff and easily switch to metered if you need to use a different model or you burn through your included allotment.

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