Anthropic has doubled the five-hour usage limits for Claude Code across its Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans.

We’ve agreed to a partnership with @SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity.

This, along with our other recent compute deals, means that we’ve been able to increase our usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API.

— Claude (@claudeai) May 6, 2026

Additionally, the company has canceled the reduction of Claude Code limits during peak hours for Pro and Max accounts and significantly raised the API speed limits for Claude Opus models.

These changes were made possible by a partnership agreement with SpaceX, which allowed for a substantial increase in computing power.

“Combining this deal with other recent agreements has enabled us to raise the usage limits for Claude Code and Claude API,” the announcement stated.

xAI Merges with SpaceX

The AI startup xAI has ceased to exist following its acquisition by SpaceX and is now a division of the space company called SpaceXAI.

Anthropic has gained access to all the resources of the Colossus 1 data center: over 300 MW, or more than 220,000 Nvidia GPUs.

Other computing deals include:

  • Amazon — up to 5 GW, nearly 1 GW by the end of 2026;
  • Google and Broadcom — 5 GW, agreement effective in 2027;
  • Microsoft and Nvidia — Azure capacity worth up to $30 billion;
  • $50 billion investment in U.S. AI infrastructure in partnership with Fluidstack.

“We train and deploy Claude on various AI hardware platforms — AWS Trainium, Google TPU, and Nvidia GPUs — and continue to explore opportunities to bring additional capacity online,” Anthropic stated.

The company is interested in partnering with SpaceX to develop orbital computing solutions with several GW of power. Expansion is also planned abroad: a recently announced partnership with Amazon aims to create infrastructure in Asia and Europe.

Previously, Claude users complained that the bot was burning through limits too quickly.

Recall that at the end of April, Anthropic released a set of connectors allowing Claude to work directly with popular design and 3D tools: Blender, Adobe, Autodesk, Ableton, SketchUp, and others.