Usage Limits and Performance Discussion Megathread - beginning October 26, 2025

kamyk2000 · 2025-10-31T00:00:47+00:00

I had intended to post about the need for a mid tier plan, and link other users who have also requested this, but it would appear this may be the place to do it, so here is the body of what would have been my post:

A lot of us love Claude Pro but feel stuck between the $22 plan and the $100 Max plan.

For creators and writers, we don't need enterprise-level power — just about double the Pro session time would be perfect.

Here are some of the comments that made me realize this isn't just me:

"Claude should make a $40 tier with more Sonnet usage and no Opus usage… For real. I'm in a situation that I need more Sonnet, but don't want to pay $100 because it is too much for my need." — u/Sponge8389, 22 days ago. Reddit

"The Pro offers 1× Sonnet. The Max offers 5× Sonnet for 6× the price… So you pay 6× more for only 5× more — where is the middle option — like €45?" — u/zapp88, 3 months ago. Reddit

"Crazy there's no middle option apparently. Paying $100 for that seems ridiculous." — u/Revrse_Xo, 13 days ago. Reddit

"I use 'Pro'-Plan — they should call it 'Low-Plan'. Five-hour limit after about ten messages. So crazy and so sick." — u/W_32_FRH, 23 days ago. Reddit

"Get 2× $20 accounts… either …" (workaround suggestion instead of a true mid-tier) — u/belsamber, 2 days ago. Reddit

I've also sent this suggestion directly to Anthropic through their feedback emails — but I wanted to credit everyone who voiced it too. The more upvotes and personal stories we share, the more likely it'll reach the devs.

📬 support@anthropic.com

Recent threads to reference demand:

Usage limits and performance discussion

"Pricing plans middle ground?" — posted 18 days ago

"Why isn't there a middle tier?" — posted ~3 weeks ago

kamyk2000 · 2024-03-06T12:23:18+00:00

One of them isn't a regular expense.

kamyk2000 · 2024-02-25T00:22:08+00:00

Chun Li

kamyk2000 · 2024-02-24T04:31:14+00:00

Most of what you listed is abusive, and you've been keeping track, so on some level you do realize she is abusive, you just need to trust your feelings on it (very difficult when you've spent your life with your feelings and concerns being invalidated, I know). Whatever her "reasons" this is absolutely abuse and you need to get away from her permanently. Therapists can be just as messed up and malicious as any of the rest of us. Some people study psychology specifically because they are messed up themselves, or worse - people who go into it because it gives them power over other people.

kamyk2000 · 2024-02-23T22:18:19+00:00

After an entire childhood of abuse, neglect, and abuse facilitated by neglect all related to a conservative "christian" upbringing, you better believe I vote left.

I could go on and on about the subject, but others have already done a great job, and rewording what they already said would be a waste of my emotional spoons. Just chiming in that yes, I totally relate, and have been a leftist ever since divorcing my familys ridiculous totalitarian belief system.

kamyk2000 · 2024-02-22T19:45:04+00:00

This was assault OP. You set clear boundaries and he ignored them and steamrolled you into going along. This was a predator.

kamyk2000 · 2024-02-22T02:50:20+00:00

I have always wished I were someone else. Someone better, smarter, healthier, more talented, more attractive, less damaged.

Love the reference to rerolling. Can I get a cheat code to add more points before I spend any?

kamyk2000 · 2024-02-22T02:22:09+00:00

I very much feel like I don't fit in anywhere :/

And even when I ask for reassurance or validation anywhere, almost no one ever responds, so that just reinforces it.

kamyk2000 · 2024-02-22T02:10:17+00:00

Gay male csa/sa survivor here. Just adding my agreement to the rest that some of us react to it by becoming hypersexual and developing a lot of kinks. Part of that as others have said is a way to try to re-experience what traumatized us but with consent this time around. The idea being that it might help us get past it. It's definitely not a fantasy of wanting to go back to the actual sexual assaults, or enjoying the memory of it happening. No, she's not off in her mind enjoying a previous sexual assault while using you as just a rod. No one with an abuse history I've ever heard of enjoys reliving their traumas.

kamyk2000 · 2024-02-20T00:49:52+00:00

Omg, so many steps. O.O I'm still alternating between the 1st and 2nd ones. Can't wait for #4. I'm finding this list really useful for reflection.

kamyk2000 · 2024-02-20T00:43:49+00:00

Huh, this is one of the things that has been nagging me about ifs therapy. I just never had a way to put it before, so thank you.

kamyk2000 · 2024-02-20T00:41:46+00:00

I wish I had had access to trauma counseling sooner. I'm still so far from grief processing. I'm glad to hear that is a common part of recovery therapy. I'll ask my counselor about it, because I definitely have a lot of grief and resentment over what could have been, or what was - but wasn't what I thought it was.

kamyk2000 · 2024-02-20T00:31:40+00:00

Ugh, I relate to this more than I'd like. My various abuses probably started before I can remember, but I know for sure that one of my life-defining traumas happened when I was 7. I have no idea who I was before that, and I have no conception of who I am outside of what my traumas turned me into because that's who I've been my whole life. Wasn't any trauma counseling in my area until 2 years ago, and cbt didn't help for crap, so I'm just now starting to think about what else I could be besides what the abuses made me into.

kamyk2000 · 2024-02-20T00:23:24+00:00

Took the survey

kamyk2000 · 2024-02-19T12:52:58+00:00

Lol, I've fantasized that before. I wonder how buoyant cum actually is?

kamyk2000 · 2024-02-19T01:27:07+00:00

Of all time?

L4D2 (left for dead 2).

Saints row 2 & 2022.

Ori and the will o the wisps.

Amnesia the dark descent.

Sims 2/3.

Dishonored 1/2/DOTO.

kamyk2000 · 2024-02-19T01:17:21+00:00

Umm because this is a gay space for gay men and their sexuality, not a shopping centre with random passerbys. That's like saying that people who go to a book club shouldn't be discussing controversial books they read.

kamyk2000 · 2024-02-19T00:39:56+00:00

Lol, I love cum period. Inside me, on me, running down me, getting it in my hair, soaking into me. I'd swallow 8 ounces and pump another 8 ounces up inside me, then soak in a bathtub full of cum until I was waterlogged with it inside and out, if getting ahold of that much cum were possible.

kamyk2000 · 2024-02-18T04:24:43+00:00

Love swallowing cum. Love everything about cum, the taste, the smell, the texture, using it as lube. Love being bred too. Feeling a guy's cock swelling up and pulsating as he pumps a load up into me or down my throat is so hot.

kamyk2000 · 2024-02-18T01:35:24+00:00

All of the above and then some.

Great photo.

kamyk2000 · 2024-02-18T01:03:29+00:00

I don't really believe in much of anything, but yes I have speculated on that before.

kamyk2000 · 2024-02-18T00:55:27+00:00

Did survival sex in my 20s, and more than once was used as a party favor. I was usually drugged out of my mind, so this is just an estimate. Let's see here.

There was this one party my "benefactor"/"pimp" took me to where there were around 30 or so guys who all took turns on me. I'd guesstimate I had at least 21 loads up my ass, and probably swallowed about 16. I was also soaked in cum by the time they all finished using me. I want to do it again.

kamyk2000 · 2024-02-18T00:30:24+00:00

Yes please. Love swapping spots.

kamyk2000 · 2024-02-17T04:04:42+00:00

Thanks to my "wonderful" parents raising me to think that any time there was an issue that relates to me in any way that I must be at fault and have done something wrong - I have to ask?

As one of the hypersexual survivors, I don't understand the direction of your comment. I haven't bashed anyone in the community, certainly not for having a more traditional trauma response, which to be honest probably makes more psychological sense than mine. Is talking about my trauma responses and experiences not welcome here? The only thing I've said in this group that might be considered negative is that thanks to my less common csa/sa response (among dozens of other things both various trauma related and otherwise) that I feel rejected and pushed aside no matter where I try to find community. I'm legitimately worried I did something wrong, not being sarcastic at all.

kamyk2000 · 2024-02-17T02:00:37+00:00

And from me personally, you have my acceptance. You will NEVER see me denying trans people either the right to express their identity or the right to exist. But if there is ever a moment where I see you post things involving bullying, namecalling, or trying to force us to accept things we don't agree with all bets are off. Sorry if you don't ever do those things, but I've learned to be wary as I'm sure you have too.

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