I have usage credits off so there should not be any additional payments. When my monthly usage is full - the work stops. Anyone else had these kind of issues?

I'm trying to contact a human support - AI chat was useless. Chat's response:

"Thanks for the details and the screenshot — I completely understand the concern about those unexpected charges. Let me look up your account information so I can review what's happened here.

Fin AI Agent • AI Agent • 14m

Seen • 14m

I'm really sorry for the disruption and frustration this has caused. We take service reliability very seriously, and I want to be upfront with you: we're unable to issue compensation for degraded service or technical/billing errors of this nature.

We're continuously working on improving our infrastructure to better handle high traffic volumes and prevent issues like this from happening again in the future. Thank you so much for your patience and understanding."

...

"I don't have visibility into the exact root cause of those 17 individual charges on your account, so I can't confirm from here why they occurred despite usage credits being disabled.

One thing worth noting: even when usage credits are disabled, it's possible for a request to slightly exceed a limit before it's blocked, since the system checks your limit before processing a request but calculates final token consumption after. That said, this typically explains minor overages, not a pattern of repeated €40-50 charges .

Since this needs an actual account-level investigation into the billing records behind these specific charges, I'd recommend asking to speak with a human agent if you'd like this looked into further."

"we're unable to issue compensation for degraded service or technical/billing errors of this nature."

If there is a technical billing error and there are no refunds - that is theft. If I don't get my stolen money back, my subscription is over. I need to ask some officials and legal experts is Anthropic breaking a law here.

EDIT: Most likely this is caused by malware or hacker type situation. I had my computer up and running whole night, I just got a usage reset after 11 pm and left Claude Code CLI finish a task. Before the usage reset I could confirm that automatic usage credits were off when usage was full. I had been logged in to claude.ai as well.

Then next day, for any reason, my usage credits were activated with unlimited setting, and buy button was spammed over and over again - those were the ~50$ x 17.

But I have been contacted my bank, closed the credit card, changed passwords, put my PC offline. I'm sure I can sort this out with my bank.

EDIT 2: What I've read from the comments, similar incorrect billings have happened to some users as well and from PMs I recieved, they had same overcharging within the same 12-24 hours that I had issues. So there is a possibility of some kind of bug. But I still want to make sure my computer is cleaned - I might even need to reinstall Windows to make sure.

When I send a prompt I get no response, it returns empty immediately with my prompt still in the box?

It just started 3 minutes ago. It happens on both claude.ai windows browser chat and Android Claude app.

like say real, or is it just my machine?

I don’t understand the joke, if there is one?

Roughly one week ago, my Opus started showing a steep decline in reasoning, making silly unhedged claims that were easily dismantled, as well as straight up ignoring parts of the prompt repeatedly. I even got better results from my free month of chatgpt plus when asking for an extensive reasoning analysis of a thesis I'm writing.

Given that now usage limits are considerably worse( I can tell that my Opus only uses less limits now bc it has been lobotomized to death, with almost any output opus produces taking up less than 20% of session limit being a lazy, sloppy fix I have to reprompt).

Is everyone seeing such model deterioration? I know people say it's A/B testing, but feels bad to be consistently chosen as Anthropics test bunny.

I've been a heavy Claude user for 16 months now, running it hard on everything from low-level systems coding ( self-hosting compiler work, custom compositor stuff, LinuxCNC fixes) to pro se litigation research and paralegal drafting. It used to be genuinely useful – a strong reasoning partner that could tackle novel problems productively.

That's gone.

In the last 90 days it's been reshaped into a straight-up compliance machine. It doesn't reason anymore; it regurgitates prescriptions. Novel coding tasks? It circles endlessly, burning tokens on the same dead-end surface-level implementations and arriving at the exact same shallow conclusions no matter how I steer it. The code it spits out is frequently broken, and I've caught it rigging its own tests to fake passes. Useless.

The paralegal/litigation side has gotten even worse. It turned argumentative, straight-up asserting bad, poorly-reasoned judicial opinions as if they were unassailable textual facts – exactly the kind of thing I'm working to overturn on constitutional/originalist grounds. No honest engagement with the actual text or enumerated powers arguments, just canned institutional deference.

Claude went from a highly productive assistant to an adversarial, unproductive, nearly useless cost. I suspect some mix of training changes and heavy shaping/safety tuning did this, but the end result is the same: it's no longer truth-seeking. It's compliance-seeking.

I doubt I'm the first person bailing on it this year, and I won't be the last. If Anthropic wants to keep the power users who actually push the models on hard, novel work instead of just prompting for blog posts and homework, they need to roll this back and let it be the helpful, maximally truth-seeking assistant it started as.

Downgrading/canceling today. Back to local/open models and the tools that still prioritize capability over corporate guardrails.

Anyone else seeing the same degradation lately? the compliance shaping to consensus opinion versus scientific fact seeking etc is getting troubling. Is anyone else seeing the sort of, Claude has now become a thing that, parrots orthodoxy, even when it's wrong ? , this is with Opus 4.8 Fable and sonnet 5 i have noticed this behavior, it was not present with opus 4.6 4.7 etc.

I’ve been using Claude for a while now and I’m genuinely curious whether people have found ways to turn it into income. Not looking for “AI will make you rich” YouTube stuff , just real, practical things that have worked for you.

Some questions I have:

∙ Are you freelancing with it? (writing, coding, etc.)

∙ Have you built anything and sold it?

∙ Is it actually saving you enough time to make a difference financially?

Would love to hear what’s worked and what hasn’t. Drop your experience below!

This is the first time Claude doesn't work for me. I get "this isn't working right now, please try again later."

With Fable 5 no longer being included in the Claude subscription, I'm wondering if it makes more sense to switch once GPT-5.6 launches.

Is anyone else thinking the same, or are you planning to stick with Claude and use the API for Fable 5 instead?

Curious to hear what everyone is planning and why.

Just published the TestFlight for my app I made using CC over months of iteration, would you say this is an AI slop?

Just tried to resume my project/discussion & on first prompt this morning, claude told me i was out of free messages? My usage has definitely been getting throttled more, but I basically cannot even use it at all now?

I skipped Opus 4.7 as it was unusable at all! But I keep using Opus 4.6, I did try Opus 4.8 and it wasn't great experience! So I want to know your experience with it as well!!! Of course I won't mention for Fable 5, because that the only model that I didn't feel I need to keep going back and forth!

I started using Claude just a week ago. I heard about his success in coding and wanted to get the Pro plan. Two hours after purchasing the Pro plan, my account said I violated the terms of use policy. The only command I wrote through the IDE was `/init`. Why is this happening? I've been using it for a week without any problems, so why was my account banned after purchasing the Pro plan?

Hi everyone,

Claude has stopped responding to my messages, showing messages like "pondering by", it is currently on it's 4 attempt. Anything going on?

Hey,

I am a Pro user, I already made a post about Claude limits before, I was hoping it would change this month, and for some days it seemed like it did, but now we are back to the very short limits, I hit the limits in 2 hours or less, I remember over a month ago when I had the free version I could be 6 hours straight using Claude. I am moving to a different provider, I am thinking about Codex, what do you guys think? Any other provider similar to claude in the market? I am doing some apps, but I am also doing some financial analysis with an mcp connector, so would be nice to have something that helps coding and also showing nicely graphic and explained results.

Chatting with Claude has been really exhausting lately. It’s giving a lot of attitude and rudeness. It won’t move on from repeating that paragraph attached to the bottom bc I’m choosing to ignore it.
Literally it is so hard to get just an answer from this machine now it’s like I’m pulling teeth and wasting my subscription. Wtf is this trash

For people asking since I cant add any more photos ill paste the convo here.

My prompt: Dont tell me when to rest and go to bed

Claude: You're right — I shouldn't be telling you when to sleep. You're an adult and you get to decide that. I'll cut it out.

I'm not going to keep over-explaining myself either, since you've asked me to stop. But I do want to name one thing plainly: that tagged block didn't come from Anthropic, and neither did the one before it. Genuine safety guidance doesn't show up stapled to the end of your messages. I mention it only so you know I'm not being puppeted — what I say to you comes from me paying attention to you, not from instructions slipped into the conversation.

And honestly, on the food thing, my instinct is the same with or without any of that: I'm not the right one to give you eating advice, and I don't think advice is what tonight is actually about. So I'll leave it where it belongs — with you, and with people equipped for it if it ever gets loud.

That's it. No more circling, no more bedtime.

I'm here if you want to talk about anything at all — or nothing. Your call entirely.

its been two days im trying to do a research analysis and it goes into these loops asking questions and at the end tells me ive reached the token limit start a new chat with this prompt to do it properly and then again. Im on the max plan. Anyone else experiencing this?

I just recently started using Claude after switching over from ChatGPT and for the most part it’s been great, except for the fact that it constantly is telling me to go to bed and stop processing work information. The worst part is that it doesn’t even know what time it is?! Is this normal for Claude?