Anthropic is doubling Claude Code rate limits after deal with SpaceX
Key takeaways
- As a result, Anthropic is doubling the rate limits for paid users of Claude Code and loosening other limits, the company said.
- As part of the deal, Anthropic has also "expressed interest in partnering with SpaceX to develop multiple gigawatts of orbital AI compute capacity," the companies said.
- Paid users of Claude Code (which includes people on Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans) should see immediate benefits from the deal.
As a result, Anthropic is doubling the rate limits for paid users of Claude Code and loosening other limits, the company said.
The arrangement with Space X allows Anthropic to use "all the compute capacity" at Space X's Colossus 1 data center, which will add more than 300 megawatts of new capacity "within the month." Anthropic also recently struck deals with Amazon and Google. As part of the deal, Anthropic has also "expressed interest in partnering with SpaceX to develop multiple gigawatts of orbital AI compute capacity," the companies said. SpaceX recently filed paperwork with the FCC indicating it wanted to launch a million satellites in order to create an orbital data center.
Paid users of Claude Code (which includes people on Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans) should see immediate benefits from the deal. Anthropic is doubling the five-hour rate limits for Claude Code. It's also removing the "peak hours" restrictions for Pro and Max users, and increasing the API rate limits "considerably" for Claude Opus models.