"20% of my 5-hour limit on one PR review": Claude Max and Ultra users say weekly limits have been cut in half

Paid Claude users are reporting that their usage limits fill up far faster than before for the same work.

The author of a popular r/ClaudeCode post on Nov. 13 said a single PR review on the same project used to take 5% to 10% of the five-hour limit, but now the first PR alone eats almost 20%. Using a personal dashboard that converts tokens into API-equivalent cost, they said they used about 515 million tokens for 84% of the weekly limit two weeks ago, and that the limit itself has visibly shrunk since. "Just make it stable," they wrote, whether the plan is worth $2,000 or $500 of API usage.

Commenters piled on. One claimed Max fell from roughly $1,000-$1,300 of API-equivalent usage per week to $600-$700, and Ultra from $2,000-$2,500 to $1,000-$1,200. Under a separate post saying Fable 5.2 burns so much usage it is "basically pointless," one user said a single PR analysis consumed their whole five-hour window on a company-paid $100 seat, and another measured 117 million weighted tokens to hit 100% of Fable usage last week versus 230 million in prior weeks. These are user measurements, not figures confirmed by Anthropic.

There was pushback. One commenter mocked the chart's y-axis for starting at 400, and a popular tip was to use expensive Fable only for planning and review while cheaper models write code. Anthropic's guidance not to use Fable as a Projects "coordinator" also sparked debate on r/ClaudeAI. Earlier this month a class action targeted the Max plan's "20x" marketing.