I dont have max plan, but on the Pro i tried for a month, i was able to blow trough my 5 hour limit by a single prompt (with 70k context codebase attached). The idea of paying so much money to get few questions per "workday" seems insane to me
I just wanted to touch on this despite being days later in hopes you see this - I've seen this sort of feedback about the Pro plan quite a bit. I skipped it and went for max so I don't have any experience with it but I can tell you that I've _never hit my/any usage limit_ with the max plan.
Like, I don't know if my account is broken or everyone else just uses things differently. I use claude code, I have it hard-stuck to Opus 4.1 - I don't even touch Sonnet. I _abuse_ the context - I used to /compact early or /clear often depending on the task... but these days (Opus seems much better with nearly full context than Sonnet was) if I'm still on the same task/group of tasks or I think that the current context would be useful for the next thing/task/step I don't even /compact anymore. I've found that if I just run it right up to full and let it auto /compact it does a _really_ good job picking up where it left off. (Which wasn't always the case) Point being - I'm exclusively using Opus 4.1 while also constantly cycling through and maxing out context only to restart with /compact'd context so it's not even starting empty and just keep going.
Hours a day like this. Never hit a limit. (I've said elsewhere that I do believe the general time I work, which is late evening and early morning in north america, does have something to do with this but I don't actually know)
I dont have max plan, but on the Pro i tried for a month, i was able to blow trough my 5 hour limit by a single prompt (with 70k context codebase attached). The idea of paying so much money to get few questions per "workday" seems insane to me