Huge news for those of us using the paid Claude (Code) plans. Claude Code makes use of a five hour sliding window which caps how much work you can do in any given period. Previously Pro and Max had a 2x burn rate during peak hours which made more intense code sessions burn through your usage a lot faster. Five-hour rate limit window across all plans Peak hours limit reduction applied to Pro and Max accounts No special Opus API rate provisions for heavy API users Now according to this blog post ( https://www.anthropic.com/news/higher-limits-spacex ) Anthropic has doubled Claude Code's five-hour rate limits and removed the peak hours reduction entirely for Pro and Max. They've just signed a deal with SpaceX which grants them access to the full Colossus 1 data centre: over 300 megawatts and 220k NVIDIA GPUs. This is alongside new deals with Amazon, Google, and Microsoft.…