Anthropic raises Claude Code and Opus API rate limits, citing SpaceX Colossus 1 deal

Claude Code’s five-hour rate limits double across Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans from Tuesday, with peak-hours throttling removed for Pro and Max. The capacity behind the change is a new Anthropic agreement to take all of SpaceX’s Colossus 1 data centre.

Anthropic raised the rate limits on Claude Code and the Claude Opus API on Tuesday, with three changes taking effect immediately. The company announced that Claude Code’s five-hour rate limits are doubling across Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans; that peak-hours limit reduction has been removed for Claude Code on Pro and Max accounts; and that API rate limits have been raised considerably for Claude Opus models, with the new ceilings published.

The capacity making the changes possible is a new compute agreement with SpaceX. Anthropic has signed to take all of the compute capacity at SpaceX’s Colossus 1 data centre, which ...