Anthropic partners with SpaceX to access Colossus 1 compute capacity, doubling Claude Code rate limits and removing peak-hour throttling

Anthropic announced a compute partnership with SpaceX that provides access to Colossus 1 for additional Claude inference capacity, with Claude inference ramping up on Colossus within days.

Effective immediately: Claude Code's 5-hour rate limits are doubled for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise; peak-hours limit reduction is removed for Pro and Max; Opus API rate limits are substantially increased.

Usage grew approximately 80x unexpectedly, which reportedly caused the compute shortage that the SpaceX deal addresses; weekly limits were not increased yet because only a small percentage of users hit weekly limits compared to a much larger percentage hitting 5-hour limits.