Anthropic has announced a significant enhancement to its Claude Code usage limits following a new partnership with Elon Musk's SpaceX Colossus One data center. The company has revealed that Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise subscribers will now enjoy double the five-hour rate limits, while peak-hour restrictions have been removed for Pro and Max accounts. Additionally, the Claude Opus API limits have been raised considerably, providing developers with greater throughput for advanced workloads.
Anthropic Increases Claude Code Usage Limits
These changes are designed to ease the strain on users who have been pushing the service to its limits amid surging demand. The company stated, "We've agreed to a partnership with SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity. This, along with our other recent compute deals, means that we've been able to increase our usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API."
Anthropic detailed the three key changes effective immediately:
- Doubling Claude Code's five-hour rate limits for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans.
- Removing the peak hours limit reduction on Claude Code for Pro and Max accounts.
- Raising API rate limits considerably for Claude Opus models.
Anthropic Partners with SpaceX
Anthropic announced a major partnership with Elon Musk's SpaceX, securing the compute capacity of the Colossus 1 data centre to power its AI models. The agreement marks a significant expansion for Anthropic as it ramps up its infrastructure to compete with industry rivals like OpenAI. The deal gives Anthropic access to over 300 megawatts of new capacity, equivalent to more than 220,000 Nvidia GPUs, within the next month.
"We've agreed to a partnership with @SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity. This, along with our other recent compute deals, means that we've been able to increase our usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API," the company posted on X (formerly Twitter). This surge in power will directly benefit paid subscribers of the company's Claude Pro and Claude Max services. Looking further ahead, Anthropic has expressed interest in working with SpaceX to develop orbital AI compute capacity measured in multiple gigawatts.
