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Anthropic is giving everyone on a paid Claude plan one free full reset of their usage limits, to make up for bugs that ate into allowances faster than they should have. Pro, Max, Ultra and Team subscribers can use it on every model and every limit any time before December 10 at 2pm PT, Anthropic’s ClaudeDevs account said on X on Tuesday.

Why Anthropic is handing out another reset

Anthropic gave two reasons. It says it “recently fixed a few small issues that used more limits than intended”, though it hasn’t said what they were or how long they ran. And it admits the Fable resets it handed out with Claude Fable 5.2 on Monday “didn’t do much” for people who had already hit their weekly limit on every model.

That second point comes down to how a Fable reset works. Anthropic’s launch offer page says it gives back only the weekly usage spent on Fable models, so someone who had burned through their week on Opus or Sonnet got little or nothing back. The new reset has no such catch:

Anthropic says the issues “didn’t affect everyone”, but the reset goes to every eligible paid account regardless. It lands three days after a federal judge let a class action over Claude Max’s “20x more usage” pitch go ahead.

Who gets it, and when it runs out

The reset is for Pro, Max, Ultra and Team plans. Anthropic didn’t mention the Free plan or Enterprise. It expires on December 10 at 2pm PT, which is 5pm ET, 10pm in London, 11pm in Berlin and 9am on December 11 in Sydney. Anthropic’s plans are sold in every country on its supported list, including the US, UK, Canada, Germany, the rest of the EU, Australia, India and Japan, but not China or Russia.

It is showing on MadRobot’s own Claude account as a Full reset marked “Expires 10 Dec”, listed above the Fable resets from Monday:

The Limit resets section of Claude’s usage settings, showing a Full reset that expires on 10 December above two Fable resets that expire on 9 March, each with a Reset for free button
The new Full reset sits above the Fable resets in Settings, then Usage. Expiry dates in the screenshot are in UTC, so Anthropic’s March 8 PT deadline shows as 9 March. Image: MadRobot screenshot of Claude

How to use your free full reset

  1. Open Claude on the web, in the Claude desktop app or in the Claude mobile app, or go straight to clau.de/reset.
  2. Go to Settings › Usage and find Limit resets.
  3. Click Reset for free next to Full reset, then confirm.

The same button appears on the message you see when you hit a limit. It isn’t in Claude Code in the terminal or an IDE, Anthropic’s help page on limit resets says, but limits are shared across your account, so the usage it restores applies in Claude Code too.

When to spend it

A reset restores usage; it doesn’t raise your limits, and your weekly limit still resets on its usual day and time. Once you use one you can’t undo it, and if you downgrade or cancel before using it, it’s gone. It doesn’t refund extra usage you’ve already been billed for either.

That makes timing matter. Spending it a day before your weekly limit would refill anyway wastes most of it, so it works best when you hit the cap with several days of the week still to go. If most of your week has gone on Fable, a Fable reset gives that back and refills your five-hour window, so you can keep the full reset for when other models run dry too. Our guide to Claude’s first one-off reset covers how resets work in more detail.

Why it matters

Usage limits are a long-running grievance for people paying up to $200 a month for Claude, and Anthropic now faces them in court as well as online. A full reset on every model makes up for bugs it hasn’t explained, but subscribers will judge it on whether their limits stop draining early.

Sources: ClaudeDevs on X, Claude Help Center: What is a limit reset?, Claude Help Center: Claude Fable 5.2 launch offers

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