Anthropic and SpaceX: Claude Code Freed from Usage Constraints

Doubled quotas and lifted restrictions

Anthropic has just announced significant changes regarding the usage limits of its Claude Code service, thanks to a strategic partnership with SpaceX. These changes include doubling the quotas for 5-hour sessions on Claude Code for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise subscriptions. Additionally, peak hour limits have been removed for Pro and Max accounts, providing greater flexibility for users.

Furthermore, the API throughput limits for Claude Opus models have also been increased, allowing for more intensive and seamless use of Anthropic's services.

Limited impact for some users

It is important to note that while the doubling of quotas applies to 5-hour sessions, the weekly caps remain unchanged. This means that users can concentrate more work in a given session but cannot increase their total weekly workload.

Users of the Claude interface, who do not have Pro or Max subscriptions, continue to face the same session limitations as before.

A strategic partnership with SpaceX

The agreement with SpaceX allows Anthropic to access the full capacity of the Colossus 1 data center, which includes 300 megawatts and over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs. This additional capacity is immediately available and adds to existing partnerships with tech giants such as Amazon, Google, Broadcom, Microsoft, and NVIDIA.

Response to developer pressure

The usage limitations of Claude Code have been a source of frustration for many developers, whose sessions were prematurely interrupted. In April, Anthropic briefly removed Claude Code from its $20 per month Pro plan to ease its infrastructure, but quickly restored the service in response to negative feedback. The partnership with SpaceX aims to balance computing supply with growing demand while being better perceived by users.