Anthropic doubles Claude Code limits after signing compute deal with SpaceX
Anthropic just signed a compute deal with SpaceX and is doubling Claude Code rate limits for paid users starting today.
Anthropic just announced a partnership with SpaceX that hands it full use of the Colossus 1 data center, over 300 megawatts of capacity and roughly 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs, available within the month. The company is using the added compute to raise usage limits across Claude Code and the API, effective today.
The limit changes for paid plans are:
- Claude Code rate limits: Doubled for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans, which previously had a five-hour rolling cap.
- Peak hours throttling: Removed entirely for Pro and Max accounts. Claude Code no longer slows down during high-traffic periods for those tiers.
- Opus API rate limits: Raised considerably for API customers. Anthropic published updated numbers in a table on its announcement page.
The SpaceX deal is part of a broader compute push Anthropic has been running. It already has an up-to-5-gigawatt agreement with Amazon, which includes nearly 1 GW of new capacity by end of year, a 5 GW deal with Google and Broadcom coming online in 2027, a $30 billion Azure capacity partnership with Microsoft and NVIDIA, and a $50 billion infrastructure investment with Fluidstack.
Colossus 1 is notable because it comes online fast. The other deals are larger in scale but further out. For Claude Code users hitting limits today, this is the one that matters.
There’s one layer to this deal worth flagging. Anthropic and Elon Musk have had a publicly contentious relationship for years. He’s called the company “misanthropic and evil,” accused its models of bias, and labeled it “super smug, sanctimonious and hypocritical.” SpaceX and xAI merged earlier this year into a combined SpaceXAI entity, making Musk a direct party to this transaction.
After the announcement, Musk posted on X that he had spent considerable time the previous week with senior Anthropic staff to understand their safety approach and came away satisfied. He said no one “set off his evil detector” and that he approved leasing Colossus 1 to Anthropic after SpaceXAI had already moved its own training to Colossus 2.
Anthropic’s announcement makes no mention of Musk or xAI.
Bottom line: Years of public rivalry between two of the most prominent AI labs ended with a business transaction.
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