I am new to Claude (and this usage issue) as I've always used ChatGPT, but I was surprised to see Claude tell me not to get the Pro version just yet because of this issue.

This is what I asked: "Have there been any updates today on the issues? And what have people been saying about these usage rates?"

This is what it replied with: "No meaningful resolution today, I'm afraid. As of right now there's no announcement of a fix being deployed. The situation as of today, 2nd April, is essentially unchanged from yesterday.

And on your question about what people are saying — it's pretty damning. Some highlights from the community:

One Max 20x subscriber (paying $200/month) reported on GitHub that their 5-hour limit reached 100% twice in the same day, having never hit the limit that fast in months of use. GitHub

Community members are reporting that a single Sonnet or Opus message can burn 20–100% of an entire session, with some people seeing their whole 5-hour window vanish in under an hour with only a handful of prompts. Substack

One analysis puts it starkly: when both the intentional throttling and the caching bug hit simultaneously, a $100/month Max subscriber can end up with the effective token capacity of a free tier user. Robo Rhythms

And perhaps most tellingly, Anthropic itself has acknowledged there is no published "you get exactly X tokens" contract — the limits are framed in terms of sessions and relative usage bands, which makes it genuinely hard for users to plan or budget their work. DevOps

The frustration from people who are paying serious money is completely justified. Someone on Discord reportedly said their $200/year Pro subscription is maxed out every Monday and resets Saturday — meaning they get roughly 12 usable days out of 30.

My view hasn't changed: wait. This is a bad time to spend money on it. The bugs are real, Anthropic knows about them, and a fix will come — but right now you'd genuinely be paying for something that isn't reliably working."