When does my Claude limit reset?

First: which limit did you hit?

Look at the reset time in the message:

• A time later today, such as "5-hour limit reached - resets 3:45pm", means the session limit. You'll be back within five hours.
• A day of the week, or a time more than five hours away, almost always means the weekly limit. You'll be back on that day.

Paste the message into the countdown tool. It reads the reset time for you and can remind you by browser alert, calendar event, or email.

When the session limit resets

Anthropic's Pro and Max plan pages say the session-based limit resets every five hours. Settings → Usage shows this in two ways:

• "Resets in X hr Y min" under Current session, while a session is running.
• "Starts when a message is sent" when you've been idle, which means no window is running and the next one starts with your next message.

So the reset time isn't tied to midnight or a clock hour. It depends on when your current session began. For the exact minute, trust the time in your limit message or on the Usage page rather than working it out yourself.

When the weekly limit resets

Pro and Max have a weekly limit that applies across all models. Per Anthropic:

• It resets at a fixed time each week assigned to your account.
• That reset day and time stay the same regardless of when you start using Claude or when your subscription began.
• You get your full weekly allowance each cycle.
• Your next reset time is shown in Settings → Usage.

There's no single reset day for everyone, so a friend's "mine resets Thursday" tells you nothing about your account. Some models also have their own bar in Settings → Usage, each with its own reset time.

How to find your exact reset time

1. The limit message. It includes the reset time, for example "5-hour limit reached - resets [time]".
2. Settings → Usage on claude.ai. It shows the current session and weekly limits, each with a reset time.
3. Claude Code. Run /usage to see your plan usage bars. The "You've hit your session limit" and "You've hit your weekly limit" messages also show when the window resets.

More detail: how to check Claude usage.

Things that don't reset your limit

• Starting a new chat. Limits belong to your account, not the conversation.
• Switching between claude.ai, the desktop app, and Claude Code. They share the same limits.
• Switching models after a session or weekly limit. Those limits apply across all models. Switching only helps after a model-specific limit, such as "You've hit your Opus limit".
• Waiting five hours when it's the weekly limit.

Can you keep working before the reset?

• Usage credits. On Pro and Max you can turn on pay-as-you-go usage credits in Settings → Usage, billed at standard API rates, with an optional monthly spend limit. The message then reads "5-hour limit resets [time] - continuing with usage credits." See usage limits and extra usage.
• Upgrade. Max gives 5x or 20x Pro's usage per session. See Pro vs Max.
• Let Claude Code wait for you. In Claude Code v2.1.234 or later, signed in with a claude.ai subscription, an interactive session that hits a usage limit mid-task waits and continues on its own after the reset, as long as you keep the session open. It won't start this wait by itself if the reset is more than 24 hours away. Use /rate-limit-options to choose.