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Anthropic raises Claude Pro/Max usage limits and signs SpaceX compute deal

harsh-desai · 6 May 2026

Anthropic doubles 5-hour Claude Code rate limits for Pro and Max users and removes peak-hour throttling. Opus API limits increase alongside a 300 MW Colossus 1 deal with SpaceX for 220,000+ GPUs within a month.

Anthropic doubled the five-hour rate limits on Claude Code for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, and removed peak-hour restrictions for Pro and Max. API rate limits for Claude Opus models also went up considerably. To support the bigger envelope, Anthropic signed a deal with SpaceX for access to Colossus 1, adding…

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