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 provides more than 300 megawatts of new capacity and over 220,000 Nvidia GPUs within the month. The company says the additional capacity will directly improve service for Claude Pro and Claude Max subscribers.
In its announcement, Anthropic has also expressed interest in partnering with SpaceX on developing multiple gigawatts of orbital AI compute capacity, although no agreement on that front has been signed.
The SpaceX deal joins a list of other recently disclosed compute commitments. Anthropic has an up-to-5-gigawatt agreement with Amazon that includes nearly 1 GW of new capacity online by the end of 2026; a 5 GW agreement with Google and Broadcom, which is set to begin coming online in 2027; a strategic partnership with Microsoft and Nvidia that includes $30 billion of Azure capacity; and a $50 billion American AI infrastructure investment with Fluidstack.
Anthropic trains and serves Claude on a mix of hardware, including AWS Trainium, Google TPUs, and Nvidia GPUs. The company says it continues to explore opportunities to bring additional capacity online.
Some of the upcoming expansions will be international. The company’s recent collaboration with Amazon includes additional inference capacity in Asia and Europe, framed as a response to enterprise customers in regulated industries needing in-region infrastructure for compliance and data-residency reasons. Anthropic says it is being deliberate about where it adds capacity, partnering only with what it describes as democratic countries whose legal and regulatory frameworks can support investments of the relevant scale.
The company also reiterated a commitment made earlier this year to cover any consumer electricity-price increases caused by its US data centres, and said it is exploring extending that commitment to new jurisdictions as the international expansion proceeds.
The headline change for users sits at the top. Pro and Max subscribers see Claude Code’s five-hour usage windows doubled and the peak-hours throttling lifted, both effective Tuesday. The Opus API rate-limit increases apply on the same date.
