Crowd-sourced reports · Not official limits
Real numbers on when Claude, Cursor, Codex and Copilot cut you off.
Vendors don't publish a real limit. This is what people report — how long a plan lasted, or how fast it ran out — with a link to the post they wrote it in.
Receipt 01 / 06
Hit the weekly cap
“$250 account weekly budget suddenly gone in an hour on a relatively low workload”
Codex (plan not stated) · philemonholland
56reports on file
15plans on file
3sudden-drop flags
On file Jul 18, 2026 → Oct 16, 2026
01The board
This week Oct 26–Nov 1, 2026, UTC
A solid row is this week. A dashed row is older: the last 90 days, or all-time when that window is empty. The number is a median of comparable reports: same cap, same kind of measure. Two reports is labeled thin data. A single report stays off the board.
Claude Code1 plan
Anthropic
Last 90 daysThin data
before the weekly cap · median of 2 reports · 34–48 hours
0 this week · 12 on file
Codex (via ChatGPT plans)1 plan
OpenAI
Last 90 days
before the 5-hour cap · median of 3 reports · 2–86 minutes
0 this week · 13 on file
02Flags
Flagged when at least two reports for the same tool, within seven days, describe a faster drain or a meter that moved by itself. These are reports, not a measured outage.
Sep 15, 2026
1 reported meter issue and 1 faster-drain report.
Claude Max 20x — ~10% of weekly used in the first ~10 hours on Max 20x vs ~60% in ~41 hours on Max 5x the weekend before.
Claude Max 20x — Weekly "All Models" indicator jumped to 100% immediately after upgrading from Max 5x to Max 20x.
03Receipts
The quote is the writer's words. The line under it describes the post.
“$250 account weekly budget suddenly gone in an hour on a relatively low workload”
Weekly budget gone in an hour on a relatively low workload on Oct 14; next day back to normal under heavier load.
Codex (plan not stated)(ChatGPT ($250 account, tier not stated))philemonhollandgithub.com
“I ran out of quota on both bars this month less than a week ago”
Ran out of both usage bars, then used slower courtesy Auto until it ended on Oct 11.
04Off the board
These didn't name one of the plans above. They are not folded into those medians.
05Weekly note
The numbers above, and any sudden drop. No product news.
Sep 9, 2026
2 reported meter issues.
ChatGPT Plus — Went from 100% to 0% after 3-4 messages (~15 min) during the Sep 9 meter incident; briefly restored then dropped again.
ChatGPT Pro ($200) — Weekly went from ~60% to 12% remaining in under 5 minutes of light work (Sep 9 incident).
Aug 3, 2026
2 reported meter issues.
Claude Max 20x — Weekly jumped 0%->50% (all models) and Fable to 100% while the account was idle; ~40 real messages later moved it only 50%->54%. (Anthropic later told another user in this thread that idle drains were likely stolen sessions.)
Claude Max 20x — During an idle watch, 5-hour session went 0%->100% in ~18 minutes and weekly 57%->72% without a message sent.
Cursor Student(Cursor (student plan, $20))Autogseforum.cursor.com
“Previously, similar Sol Ultra sessions typically lasted around 1–2 hours before I reached the usage limit.”
5-hour allowance exhausted in ~2-3 minutes; similar sessions previously lasted 1-2 hours.
ChatGPT PlusSol Ultrakautuksahnigithub.com
“my weekly limits are going way faster than last week”
Weekly and session limits draining much faster than the prior week while using a single conversation.
“a task involving two images reduced my remaining allowance from 100% to 16%”
Astra Max task with two images: 100%->16% of 5-hour; one question 100%->80%; five Sol questions left 67%.
ChatGPT Plus(ChatGPT Plus (Work))GPT-6 Astra Max / GPT-6.1 Solgus6443-beepgithub.com
“My weekly limit now runs out in about two days, while the same work used to last about a week”
Weekly limit now runs out in about two days; same work used to last about a week.
Claude Max 20x(Claude Max 20x (EUR 200/mo))BoozyWoozy88github.com
Reports on file run Jul 18, 2026 to Oct 16, 2026.