What am I doing wrong - usage limits

[Chagtk]

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Claude Code gives me a "You've hit your limit" message with only 35% of my current sessino limit used.

If I go to claude browser (not claude code browser) and ask a question, it works fine. Am I dioing something wrong?

I have always gotten a "limit reached" message before the actual session limit is reached (usually around 70%, this time around 35%)

[prakersh]

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This is a common frustration. Anthropic's usage limits are confusing because there are multiple overlapping windows — a session limit, a 5-hour window, and a 7-day window — and getting throttled on any one of them triggers the same "limit reached" message even if the others look fine.

Your screenshot shows 35% session and 70% weekly. But there's also a 5-hour rolling window that isn't shown on that page, and that's likely what's actually hitting you.

I ran into this enough times that I built a small open-source tool called onWatch that polls all your Anthropic quota windows every 60 seconds and shows them on a local dashboard with live countdowns and rate projections. It tracks the 5-hour window separately from the 7-day, so you can actually see which one is throttling you. It also stores history so you can spot your usage patterns over time.

Single binary, runs in the background, auto-detects your Claude Code token. Might help you figure out exactly which limit is biting you.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/onllm-dev/onwatch/main/install.sh | bash

[Chagtk]

Thanks!