Anthropic has agreed to a partnership with SpaceX that will substantially increase its compute capacity. This, along with other recent compute deals, has enabled the company to raise usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API.
Increased Usage Limits
The following three changes-all effective immediately-are aimed at improving the experience for Anthropic's most dedicated customers.
First, Anthropic is doubling Claude Code's five-hour rate limits for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans.
Second, the company is removing the peak hours limit reduction on Claude Code for Pro and Max accounts.
Third, Anthropic is raising its API rate limits considerably for Claude Opus models.
SpaceX Compute Partnership
Anthropic has signed an agreement with SpaceX to utilize all of the compute capacity at SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center. This provides access to more than 300 megawatts of new capacity (over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs) within the month. The additional capacity will directly improve availability for Claude Pro and Claude Max subscribers.
This joins Anthropic's other significant compute announcements:
- An up to 5 gigawatt (GW) agreement with Amazon, which includes nearly 1 GW of new capacity by the end of 2026
- A 5 GW agreement with Google and Broadcom, which will begin coming online in 2027
- A strategic partnership with Microsoft and NVIDIA that includes $30 billion of Azure capacity
- A $50 billion investment in American AI infrastructure with Fluidstack
Anthropic trains and runs Claude on a range of AI hardware-AWS Trainium, Google TPUs, and NVIDIA GPUs-and continues to explore opportunities to bring additional capacity online.
As part of this agreement, Anthropic has also expressed interest in partnering with SpaceX to develop multiple gigawatts of orbital AI compute capacity.
International Expansion
Anthropic's enterprise customers-particularly those in regulated industries like financial services, healthcare, and government-increasingly need in-region infrastructure to meet compliance and data residency requirements. Accordingly, some of the capacity expansion will be international: the recently announced collaboration with Amazon includes additional inference in Asia and Europe.
Anthropic is intentional about where it adds capacity-partnering with democratic countries whose legal and regulatory frameworks support investments of this scale, and where the supply chain on which its compute depends-hardware, networking, and facilities-will be secure.
Finally, Anthropic recently made a commitment to cover any consumer electricity price increases caused by its data centers in the US. As part of international expansion, the company is exploring ways to extend that commitment to new jurisdictions, as well as partnering with local leaders to invest back into the communities that host its facilities.