> [...] I'm using Opus 4.1 which is much better but seems to have much lower usage limits than before Sonnet 4.5 was released [...]

Yes, it's down from 40h/week to 3-5h/week on Max plan, effectively. A real bummer. See my comment here [1] regarding [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45604301

[2] https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/8449

Glad I'm not imagining it, I'll be cancelling my sub. Paying for things only for them to get worse and the provider hoping I don't notice is such a fucking vile tactic.

In my experience sonnet 4.5 is basically pointless, it often gets non-trivial tasks wrong, and for trivial tasks I can use a local model or one of the myriad of providers that give free inference.

EDIT: Holy shit I read the github issue, fuck these people.

> We highly recommend Sonnet 4.5 -- Opus uses rate limits faster, and is not as capable for coding tasks.

They're just straight gaslighting us now lmao.