Anthropic doubles Claude usage limits off-peak

The off-peak framing is the tell — Anthropic has idle GPU capacity during non-business hours and would rather fill it with happy users than let it sit dark.

• –Doubled limits apply to Claude web, desktop, mobile, Claude Code, Cowork, Claude for Excel, and Claude for PowerPoint
• –All consumer tiers qualify (Free, Pro, Max, Team); Enterprise is excluded — suggesting this is a retention and acquisition play targeting individual and small-team users
• –Bonus usage is truly additive: it doesn't erode weekly quotas, so power users get a genuine upgrade, not a reallocation
• –Off-peak incentive pricing is a classic infrastructure load-balancing tactic; Anthropic is essentially running a demand-smoothing experiment at scale
• –229 HN points and 139 comments signals real user interest — Claude's usage limits are a consistent pain point, and any loosening gets attention