I'm starting to think I've been A/B tested, because this was my experience for almost a year with Claude ever since I tried it for coding. Meanwhile, my coworkers seemed to be able to use it for long periods of time without getting rate limited.

One interesting variable is that I'm located in Vietnam while my coworkers are located in Norway and Europe.

To work around this issue I used Claude for coding with a Copilot subscription which was much cheaper and had virtually no rate limiting.

Copilot gives you some set amount of credits each month, but you can also pay as you go if you run out of credit which is much better than the 5 hour window crap claude code would give me.

The only opus model available now on copilot for some reason is 4.7 and it costs 7.5x tokens, while everything else is 1x, 0.33x or free.

But I switched to using GPT 5.4 medium for a month or so which I find very reasonable.