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Public story · 2026-08-31 · high
Users running both plans say the weekly ceiling comes in near 2x to 2.5x the $100 plan's limit, for 4x the price.
Why now: A 91-upvote Reddit thread surfaced the gap as a September 14 limit change approaches.
Anthropic markets Max plan limits at 20 times Pro's, but that multiplier only holds inside the 5-hour window, according to users running both plans. The weekly limit, not the 5-hour window, caps a multi-day agent run. That weekly number comes in near 2x to 2.5x the $100 plan's limit, for 4x the price.
The claim comes from a 91-upvote thread on r/ClaudeAI, where people running both plans compared notes on real usage. Several commenters said Codex delivers on its 20x claim, with a weekly cap that appears to reset daily.
Anthropic's marketing multiplier survives at the burst level and fails at the weekly level, the one that decides whether a long agent session finishes. Anyone sizing agent work against the 20x headline for the September 14 limit change should check the weekly cap first.
Anthropic hasn't published a breakdown comparing weekly limits to the 5-hour window. This is a comparison from users, without a company figure to check it against.
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Codex competes with Claude Code / Shared entities / Same source domain / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
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OpenAI released Codex / Shared entities / Same source domain / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
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Codex competes with Claude Code / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
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OpenAI released Codex / Shared entities / Same source domain / Earlier coverage / Tension
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Codex competes with Claude Code / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Codex competes with Claude Code); both cover Codex, Combined; overlapping topics (agent, codex, combined).
Linked by a graph relationship (Codex competes with Claude Code); both cover Codex, September; overlapping topics (agent, bottleneck).
OpenAI released Codex / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (OpenAI released Codex); both cover Codex, Combined; overlapping topics (agent, codex).
OpenAI released Codex / Shared entities / Same source domain / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (OpenAI released Codex); both cover ClaudeAI, Codex; reported by the same outlet (reddit.com).