Anthropic is doubling Claude usage outside peak hours from Mar. 13 to Mar. 27, with the bonus applied automatically across Free, Pro, Max, Team, and Claude Code. Shift long runs and bulk jobs to off-peak windows to stretch limits without changing plans.
Anthropic is temporarily raising Claude's rate limits by 2x outside its busiest hours. The official rules post defines those windows as weekdays outside 5–11am PT / 12–6pm GMT, while weekends get the higher allowance all day.
The support article says the promotion runs from March 13 to March 27, reverts to normal afterward, and requires no opt-in. A shared screenshot of the policy page shows the doubled allowance is applied to the five-hour usage bucket rather than peak-hour access, which remains unchanged.
Anthropic says the bonus works "everywhere you work with Claude," and the plan coverage post explicitly names Claude Code alongside the Free, Pro, Max, and Team plans. The support page summary attached in the help-center link post expands that surface list to web, desktop, mobile, Cowork, and Claude integrations for Excel and PowerPoint; it also says Enterprise is excluded.
For engineers, the immediate impact is more headroom for long coding sessions and bulk jobs without changing plans. Practitioner reactions centered on Claude Code: one developer thread called it "Spring Break for Claude Code," and another reaction post tied the extra allowance to heavier use of the newer 1M-context Sonnet and Opus models.
Anthropic staff connected the promo to demand pressure. In the Claude Code thread, the company says Claude has been "growing incredibly fast" and that it has "hit some bumps along the way," framing the two-week boost as a thank-you while the team scales capacity.
That makes this less like a permanent pricing or quota reset and more like temporary load shaping. By rewarding usage outside the 5–11am PT peak window, Anthropic is giving developers extra room while nudging heavy workloads into cheaper-to-serve hours, as another staff post reiterates in its summary of the weekend and off-peak boost.
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A small thank you to everyone using Claude: We’re doubling usage outside our peak hours for the next two weeks.
This bonus usage applies everywhere you work with Claude—including Claude Code—on the free, Pro, Max, and Team plans. support.claude.com/en/articles/14…
Claude has been growing incredibly fast recently and we've hit some bumps along the way. We wanted to thank you for bearing with us while we scaled. I hope you enjoy this alongside 1M context, excited to see what you build.
