Claude March 2026 usage promotion (support.claude.com)

Presumably they have unused compute in those hours and figure they may as well enable people to use it and get more invested into their ecosystem.

What I wish Anthropic would do is be a lot more explicit about what windows apply when. Surely they have the data to say "you get X usage from hours A to B, Y usage from B to C"

I’m trying to figure out how this affects weekly limits, since those overlap peak hours. My observation is that it doesn’t. But I could be wrong.

If they are doing it “right” I think any off peak usage should count 50% toward your weekly limits.

Edit: it does look like they are doing it the "right" way.

This is great, but i guess they are feeling the heat from Codex resetting limits in the last month quite a bit.

I didn't understood "your five-hour usage" I thought plans were per interaction or per token, not per hour.

Living in Tasmania as competitive advantage

I just know there has to be some psychology in play with these promos. The promo during December got me to upgrade to the $100 plan, and I know I'm not the only one.

Australia here we come.

So afternoon in Germany or am I misreading?

This is a psyop to recruit more Australians I'm sure of it

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These promos should be based on when more renewable energy is available for inference not when less people are likely to be using the AI. We need to adjust usage to when supply is more renewable for both training and inference in order to better protect our grid and the planet.

Long ago in the ancient days of punchcards and IBM mainframes, you’d write your programs during the day, then submit them to run overnight and pick up your results in the morning. It would be funny and sort of romantic if time-based LLM pricing returned us to that: write your specs all day, run agents on them overnight, check out the results in the morning.

Dear line manager, I will be taking a very long lunch 12-6pm in London's Chinatown then heading back to the office half cut to vibe code

Ah crap I was hoping to benefit more of my sub because I'm in an off-hours tz.

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I still hate Claude for turning down limits. I use z.ai in Claude code now, haven't hit the limit yet.

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Would be cool to have a $5-10/month plan that only works off-peak, for people who want to do the occasional side project after work. Right now it's hard to justify anything but Copilot (because it's cheaper, offers the same models, and I'm nowhere near the usage limits).

They are learning from Codex

https://hascodexratelimitreset.today

That is doubled usage between 5AM and 11PM for anyone playing along from Sydney/Melbourne.

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I guess extra compute opened up after they were canned by Department of War.

Is this going to cause another outage?

This company is clearly on a mission. I would just like to know what that mission is. I mean this in a good way.

Using timezone not UTC for a global service is a crime, especially mixed with daylight saving.