Anthropic also does this because they will dynamically change the limits to manage load. Tools like ccusage show you how much you've used and I can tell sometimes that I get limited with significantly lower usage than I would usually get limited for.

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TheOtherHobbes 4 days ago | parent [-]

Which is a huge problem, because you literally have no idea what you're paying for.

One day a few of hours of prompting is fine, another you'll hit your weekly limit and you're out for seven days.

While still paying your subscription.

I can't think of any other product or service which operates on this basis - where you're charged a set fee, but the access you get varies from hour to hour entirely at the provider's whim. And if you hit a limit which is a moving target you can't even check you're locked out of the service.

It's ridiculous. Begging for a law suit, tbh.

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lukaslalinsky 4 days ago | parent [-]

What happens when you have a gym membership, but you go there during their busy hours?

What they could do is pay as you go, with pricing increasing with the demand (Uber style), but I don't think people would like that much.

	▲	deeth_starr_v 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Your analogy would work if the gym would randomly suspend your membership for a week if you worked out too much during peak hours