Anthropic Expands Claude Limits Following SpaceX Agreement

Anthropic doubles Claude Code limits after SpaceX deal.

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

The company has also lifted the reduction of Claude Code limits during peak hours for Pro and Max accounts and significantly increased the API rate limits for Claude Opus models.

These changes were made possible by a partnership agreement with SpaceX, which has significantly boosted computing capacity.

“The combination of this deal with other recent agreements has allowed us to increase the usage limits for Claude Code and Claude API,” the announcement stated.

xAI Joins SpaceX

The AI startup xAI ceased to exist after being acquired by SpaceX, now operating as a division of the space company under the name SpaceXAI.

Anthropic has gained access to the entire capacity 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, with nearly 1 GW by the end of 2026;
• Google and Broadcom — 5 GW, agreement effective in 2027;
• Microsoft and Nvidia — Azure capacity valued up to $30 billion;
• Investments in U.S. AI infrastructure totaling $50 billion in collaboration with Fluidstack.

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

The company is interested in partnering with SpaceX to develop orbital computing solutions with several gigawatts of power. Expansion is also planned internationally, with a recently announced partnership with Amazon to establish infrastructure in Asia and Europe.

Previously, Claude users complained that the bot was rapidly consuming limits.

Back in late April, Anthropic released a set of connectors enabling Claude to work directly with popular design and 3D tools: Blender, Adobe, Autodesk, Ableton, SketchUp, and others.