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The year Claude users sued over limits is the year the limits mostly went up
2 months ago
- Claude subscribers sued over limits in 2026, but limits actually increased that year.
- Three metering systems exist: a rolling five-hour window, a weekly cap, and a premium-model meter.
- Anthropic publishes usage estimates as ranges (bands), not exact numbers, causing opacity.
- The lawsuit alleges Max plans deliver significantly less than advertised multiples of Pro usage.
- Users have built a cottage industry of tools to monitor their actual usage, including hardware meters.
- A community checklist advises reading your own meter, planning around weekly caps, routing by model, and being cautious with extra usage billing.
Claude make Fable 5 permanent
2 months ago
- Claude Fable 5 will be included in all Max and Team Premium plans at 50% of limits starting July 20.
- Pro and Team Standard users will get access via usage credits and a one-time $100 credit.
- Competition from GPT-5.6 Sol and Kimi 3 forced Anthropic to reverse its plan to remove Fable 5 from subscriptions.
- Anthropic's original plan to remove Fable 5 was due to compute capacity concerns.
- Users on the $20/month plan still will not have access to Fable 5; Max plans are $100 and $200/month.
$20/Month: The Price Ceiling Every AI Company Copied
2 months ago
- AI subscriptions like ChatGPT Plus, Claude Pro, Perplexity Pro, and Google AI Pro share a $20 monthly price, originating from OpenAI's February 2023 launch to subsidize free-tier costs.
- Competitors adopted $20 through price anchoring rather than independent cost analysis, extending to smaller tools and higher tiers like $100-$200 for power users.
- Despite identical pricing, each $20 subscription offers different usage limits, features, and model access, varying significantly across providers.
- The price reflects a psychological ceiling—$20 is the maximum typical users tolerate before cancelling, with $19.99 used to undercut this anchor.
- Future pricing may depend on compute costs; while models are becoming cheaper, subscriptions rarely cut prices voluntarily, so competition may shift to higher tiers.
Farewell, Fire Pass (For Now)
2 months ago
- Fireworks AI's Fire Pass unlimited-token subscription for Kimi models has been sunsetted, with Version 3 under preparation.
- The initial $7/week phase offered unlimited tokens with Kimi K2.5 Turbo at high speeds, changing user behavior due to zero marginal costs.
- The subscription evolved to an invite-only $49/month plan with Kimi K2.6 Turbo, still undervalued for a 1T-parameter model.
- Using unlimited tokens enabled extensive exploration and iterative prompting, improving coding workflows and project management.
- Kimi models effectively handled routine tasks, refactoring, multi-file orchestration, and architectural reasoning, aiding technical debt cleanup.
- The unit economics were unsustainable, as power users could consume billions of tokens monthly, likely leading to inverted cost-to-revenue ratios.
- Dynamic rate limiting without concurrent request caps was a weakness, requiring throttling of some beta testers for fair usage.
- Fire Pass was minimally marketed, resembling an internal experiment that gained traction accidentally.
- Flat-rate unlimited access to frontier models is transformative but challenging to sustain, prompting similar experiments by other companies.
- The future viability of Fire Pass V3 depends on whether it can achieve sustainable long-term operation.

ai subscriptions

The year Claude users sued over limits is the year the limits mostly went up

Claude make Fable 5 permanent

$20/Month: The Price Ceiling Every AI Company Copied

Farewell, Fire Pass (For Now)