Anthropic Partners With SpaceX to Double Claude Code Usage Limits

May 7, 2026 · Updated May 8, 2026

Anthropic signed a compute partnership with SpaceX to utilize the entire capacity of the Colossus 1 data center, providing over 300 megawatts of power. This facility houses more than 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs, which will be deployed within the month. The deal follows a massive 5-gigawatt agreement with Amazon.

Compute capacity: 300 megawatts
Hardware count: 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs
Claude Code limit: Doubled 5-hour rate
Deployment timeline: Within the month
Future initiative: Orbital AI compute

The shift toward agentic coding (AI that autonomously writes and debugs code) has created an unprecedented demand for inference (running a model to generate outputs). Anthropic is building compute capacity to sustain workloads like Dreaming for Claude Managed Agents that demand high-concurrency, high-token processing. Scaling physical hardware lets the company hold flat-rate subscriptions as agent complexity grows.

Effective immediately, Claude Code five-hour rate limits have doubled for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans. Additionally, peak-hour limit reductions are removed for Pro and Max accounts, and Claude Opus API rate limits have increased. These changes follow recent adjustments to Claude subscriber limits.

View the full update on anthropic.com

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@claudeaiMay 6

We’ve agreed to a partnership with @SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity. This, along with our other recent compute deals, means that we’ve been able to increase our usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API.

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Anthropic has doubled the five-hour rate limits for Claude Code across Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans. Additionally, the company has removed the peak hours limit reduction for Pro and Max accounts, allowing users to maintain full capacity during high-traffic periods without the previous throttling constraints that limited usage during busy work hours.

Anthropic is utilizing the entire compute capacity of SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center, which provides over 300 megawatts of power and more than 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs. This massive infrastructure expansion is designed to support the high token demands of autonomous AI agents and will be fully deployed within the month to improve subscriber capacity.

Anthropic has considerably raised the API rate limits for Claude Opus models, its most intelligent model family. These increases are effective immediately and are intended to provide developers with more headroom for production applications. This move follows several other large-scale compute deals aimed at stabilizing performance for the company's most dedicated professional and enterprise customers.

The doubled Claude Code limits apply to subscribers on Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans. The removal of peak-hour limit reductions specifically targets Pro and Max account holders. These updates are currently live, while the additional hardware capacity from the SpaceX partnership is expected to be fully online and deployed within the month.

As part of the new agreement with SpaceX, Anthropic has expressed interest in developing multiple gigawatts of orbital AI compute capacity. While the immediate focus is on terrestrial data centers like Colossus 1, this long-term vision explores placing AI hardware in space to further expand the physical infrastructure required for frontier model training and multi-step reasoning tasks.