Claude usage limit reset: how to claim Anthropic's free refill

How do you use the Claude reset?

The button sits in Claude's settings under Usage (Settings > Usage), or you can go straight to clau.de/reset. You can press it at any moment until 10 December at 2 p.m. Pacific time, which is 11 p.m. in Paris and 10 p.m. in London. It does not trigger by itself, and like the earlier resets it probably can't be undone once you hit it.

A reset zeroes the counters you have already burned through. It does not raise the ceilings. Claude runs on two gauges: a limit for each five-hour session and a weekly limit that refills on a fixed day and hour specific to your account. This reset refills both, across all models.

Why is Anthropic doing this?

The company says it fixed a few "small problems" that were eating through limits faster than they should. It did not say which bugs, or how many subscribers were affected, and adds that not everyone was hit.

There is a second reason. The "Fable resets" handed out on 9 November for the launch of Claude Fable 5.2 only gave back weekly usage on Fable models, plus the five-hour session. Anyone who had already run out of their weekly allowance across all models got almost nothing, which is to say the people who needed it most. This one is broader and, by the article's account, the most generous Anthropic has offered.

Anthropic has done this before, including in early July when Fable 5 returned. OpenAI is handing out Codex resets too, so a free refill is turning into a sales pitch.

The practical advice: don't burn it on a Monday morning with a half-full gauge. Save it for the day Claude locks you out while your weekly limit is still days from refilling. Heavy vibe coders can hit that wall by Wednesday.