Claude Code reduces it's weekly limit by 17% – compared to today
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The question is probably more: How can it be legal to offer a service without specifying exactly what you're getting?
The training data flywheel though was probably as or even more important at least as of whenever it was that they switched it to opt out instead of opt in on subsidized subscriptions.
One thing is offering free demos or discounted products for a short time and a different one is making your consumers believe that the current price is the long term price.
I just want transparency. Are they done increasing prices?
The initial announcement said it would only be available to subscriptions for a few weeks. The extra usage they said was for a limited time, I think it was 50% extra and they now are reducing that by 17%, less reduction than they had said.
Because it's a monthly plan they usually have given heads up of at least a month on stuff.
The API prices outside of personal subscription have always been more. Personal subscriptions are likely there for data scraping of company codebases (when users don't opt out), and for spreading the product to then get picked up by businesses the users work at or other word of mouth for API prices which they have said are profitable.
Various cost-saving measures have been discussed, including a separate Assistant plan.
Again, it will be priced according to how much the market will deem fit, which is less than what it costs at the moment.
I have a lot of hobby projects and cannot afford to drop $200/m for assistance from LLMs with above average intelligence. The Chinese models work quite well, and are cost effective, in comparison. My usage over the last few months:
- Gemini / AI Studio = translations
- Kimi 2.5 / OpenCode Go = Compiler/VM project, AI for some board games, a new document format and compiler for it,
- DS4 Flash / DeepSeek (had some credits lying around) + OpenCode Go = Template-based OCR engine
- MiMo 2.5 and MuseSpark 1.2 Contributor = The OCR engine + a product I am brainstorming + a lot of single page tools
If you select models judiciously, and can write good AGENTS.md and extremely short but potent ARCHITECTURE.md documents, the $10 you pay to OpenCode Go will last a long while even when you consume a hundreds of millions of tokens (mostly cache hits) a day. You can get multiple models to perform code review of modules against the ARCHITECTURE you have specified and get other models to execute the fixes.
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/27/your-agents-md-file-doesn...
That's what the study says.
I recently did a much smaller scale test. Some coworker was pestering me about some brilliant skill file so i backed up Claude's state and told it to make a plan for some refactoring task with and without those skills installed.
The results were identical. I didn't measure token use though.
Even Chinese ultra cheap providers are slowly reducing token plans or increasing prices.
They’re trying to stop bleeding cash.
The others are trying to reduce their costs, you have to understand that nobody has a moat, and nobody is profitable. While at the same time the cost of energy and hardware is going up.
[...] that will make it feel like you’re getting more from Claude> We’re working on exciting changes that will make it feel like you’re getting more from Claude
On the other hand, I think the biggest improvement they could do is allow using Claude Code subscriptions from third party harnesses with no strings attached.
> we're permanently raising standard weekly limits in Claude Code by 25%
I use only Fable High as well. 8 hour workday, it does my job, straight up. I only supervise. Mostly frontend and in particular, mobile, where Fable (Claude in general) is quite better than the competition, in my opinion of course.
I also use it for managing a company's website separate from my job, and my own website. And for daily studying of an unrelated university career + daily personal use. For all the ones in the current paragraph I use Opus 5 xhigh.
I don't think I've ever gotten even to 50% of the (currently augmented) levels. A 25% permanent increase is good in my books.
I mean, what? I just got the memo that we're in operation Complain and Destroy. This is horrible! I will now go buy my Torch&Pitchfork two-pack for 17% off.