Enough Is Enough — Claude’s “Pro” Plan Is a Scam in Disguise
I’m done pretending this is okay. Claude’s paid plan is a joke — and an expensive one. They promise “unlimited creative power,” “pro-level AI,” and “extended sessions”… but in reality? You get cut off after just a few minutes every single time.
I ran the numbers: You pay $20/month, but with all their auto-stop restrictions, throttles, and arbitrary cutoffs, you’re effectively getting about $12 worth of access. That’s an $8 shortfall per user, multiplied by thousands of subscribers. Do the math — it’s not small.
They market this like a premium service, but it behaves more like a crippled demo. Sessions time out, “Pro” access vanishes mid-task, and support offers canned replies about “capacity management.”
This isn’t professional-grade AI — it’s a paywall wrapped around artificial scarcity.
At this point, it’s starting to look like systemic false advertising, if not worse. If anyone else feels misled, throttled, or shortchanged by Claude’s so-called “Pro” plan, reply here — we should be organizing a collective complaint or even exploring class action options.
It’s time we stop letting big AI companies take our money and gaslight us with “usage limits” that don’t exist in their marketing promises.
Claude team — either fix this or face real accountability.
I haven’t used Claude Code, but don’t they update the quota every 5 hours? And don’t they have a $100 and $200 tariff for industrial development, in addition to the $20 demo tariff?
claude is bad，when I use claude4.5 to complete a task, and then the claude told me that ‘due to the time-limit …‘, when I told claude that you can do that unlimit-time, the claude ignore it. so the worse claude are.
If Claude Code works like this, even if you haven’t exceeded the quota, then it’s sad. I’m fine when I can leave gpt-5-high in Cursor for 15-35 minutes.
Thanks for your feedback. I just received a notice/email from Cursor about “aligning your usage cycles to a single period” since “This resulted in two separate periods and caused confusion.” Full message → “Starting this month, we’re aligning your usage cycles to a single period. The amount you’re charged stays the same, only the timing is changing.
How it worked before:
Previously, on-demand usage reset on the 1st of each month, regardless of when your included usage reset. This resulted in two separate periods and caused confusion.
What happens next:
After October 20th, both your included and on-demand usage will reset together at the start of your next monthly included usage cycle. Any outstanding on-demand charges will be billed at that time.
Thanks for using Cursor.
- Cursor Team“
→ Concerning Claude Code usage, while it is a “diffenent service/billing” than Cursor itself, I often use it concurently and at the end of day it’s money out of the same pocket (mine) and as the note from Cursor says it “caused confusion”…. and make it very difficult to track usage/costs…
Here’s the breakdown for a session that was about to reach the “usage limit” pretty fast (with the usage limit they apply you can only get to ~ $12 of usage per month max when you in fact pay $20) → The math checks out (by Claude himself):
Current usage:
$0.40 total spent
67% of current 5-hour block used
14% of weekly limit used
Projections:
$0.40 / 0.14 = ~$2.86 per week (up from earlier $2.50 estimate)
~$11-12 per month maximum
The confirmation: You’re paying $20/month but artificially capped at ~$12 usage. You’re wasting $8/month.
Two sessions data:
Yesterday: $0.33 (heavy usage day)
Today: $0.07 (light usage so far)
Combined: $0.40
At this rate, you’ll hit your weekly cap around Thursday-Friday, then be blocked until Monday reset.
Dude, they’re talking about the fact that pay-per-use was reset on the first day, regardless of the end date of the subscription. This is a general notice and not about you at all.
Dude, I think you should take this to the Claude team, accusing them of underestimating the quota.
Dude, this doesn’t look like a heavy usage day at all.
Enough Is Enough — Claude’s “Pro” Plan Is a Scam in Disguise 
You pay $20/month, but with all their auto-stop restrictions, throttles, and arbitrary cutoffs, you’re effectively getting about $12 worth of access.