Claude Code weekly limit, explained

The 5-hour limit is the one you notice mid-session. The weekly limit is the one that decides whether you make it to Friday at all. Here's how it actually works.

What the weekly limit is

Claude Code meters usage over a rolling 7-day window, separate from the 5-hour session cap. You can be nowhere near your 5-hour limit on any given day and still be tracking to run out of your weekly allowance before the week is over, especially after a few heavy days in a row.

It doesn't reset on a fixed day

There's no "resets every Monday." The weekly window rolls 7 days from when your current cycle started, so your personal reset time drifts depending on when you were last near empty. Two people on the same plan can have completely different reset clocks.

The separate model-specific weekly cap

On some plans there's an additional weekly limit for one specific model, on top of the all-models weekly total. If your work leans heavily on that one model, you can hit its cap while your overall weekly total still shows plenty of room. It's worth checking both, not just the headline number.

Why the percentage alone doesn't tell you enough

Being at 40% used on a Tuesday sounds fine. Whether it's actually fine depends on how many days are left before reset and how heavy those days usually are. The same 40% is comfortable with five easy days left and risky with two heavy ones.

In practice

Say it's Wednesday and your weekly usage sits at 55%, with the reset landing Saturday night. Flat maths says you're fine. But if your last two days ran well above your average pace, a straight-line projection from that pace lands you over 100% before Saturday. That's the gap between "the number looks okay" and "you're actually on track."

Forecasting it instead of guessing

ReserveGauge reads your live Claude Code weekly usage (including the model-specific cap, where it applies) and projects your pace forward to reset, so you see a run-dry warning while there's still time to ease off, not after the fact.