Anthropic
Usage limits increased · 28 May 2026, 17:21 UTC
Claude Code rate limits raised to cover Opus 4.8 token use
Claude usage limits were boosted 99 days ago.
4.8 defaults to high effort, which spends about the same tokens as 4.7's default on coding but performs better. For hard problems and long-running async work, switch to xhigh. We've raised Claude Code rate limits to cover the extra tokens.