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  "title": "Anthropic just got sued over Claude usage limits — class action filed June 14",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1u78tig/anthropic_just_got_sued_over_claude_usage_limits/",
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  "transcript": "Class action dropped two days ago in the US District Court for the Northern District of California (Kahn v. Anthropic).\n\nPlaintiff says Max 5x gives you ~3.5x Pro in practice, not 5x. Max 20x gives you 6–8x, not 20x. He also ended up buying extra usage after hitting caps.\n\nThe attorney nailed it:\n\n> \"It's really not easy for a normal consumer to know if they're getting the amount they were promised, or if they're not, because that information simply isn't provided.\"\n\nFull story: https://decrypt.co/371201/anthropic-lawsuit-allegedly-misleading-claude-ai-pricing\n\nNote for EU subscribers: this US lawsuit won't cover you, but EU consumer protection law has its own framework for exactly these kinds of disclosure issues. Worth looking into if you've been affected. See more info here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/s/eu9kCtRMhl\n\n\n\n--- Top Comments ---\n\n\n[1 upvotes] **TL;DR of the discussion generated automatically after 40 comments.**\n\nAlright, the thread is pretty split on this, but the prevailing sentiment is that the lawsuit has a point. **The community generally agrees that Anthropic's \"5x more usage\" marketing is dodgy when the base \"1x\" value is an undefined, constantly changing secret.** Users are fed up with the lack of transparency and feel the advertising is misleading.\n\nHowever, there's a very strong and highly-upvoted counter-argument: **Be careful what you wish for.** Many users fear the most likely outcome of this lawsuit isn't more generous Max plans, but that Anthropic will simply slash the Pro plan's limits to make the \"5x\" math technically correct, or just jack up prices for everyone.\n\nA whole side-debate also kicked off about whether we're \"biting the hand that feeds us,\" with some arguing that Anthropic is heavily subsidizing these plans and we should be grateful. The other camp immediately shot back that this is a for-profit company, not a charity, and the \"subsidy\" is just a marketing narrative to justify opaque pricing and potentially inflated API costs.\n\n[64 upvotes] Yeah this makes perfect sense. Stating \"you can use 5x the amount of X\" and then never disclosing what X was in the first place is very dodgy. I hope this forces better transparency. Although legal proceedings takes ages, of course 😞\n\n[20 upvotes] And the result won’t be that  Max 5x and Max 20x get bigger. It will be that Pro gets smaller. \n\n[11 upvotes] There was a full breakdown by she-llac earlier this year about how usage works behind the scenes:  \nhttps://she-llac.com/claude-limits  \n\nI'm wondering if this complaint will go anywhere, considering all AI subscriptions are opaque and they're a loss leader already.  \nType of guy that will cause Max 5x to cost 5x as much and give 2x as much usage instead.",
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