Anthropic added a line to its own page about limits that was not there before, reading "3 Sonnet 4.x rate limit is a total limit that applies to combined traffic across Sonnet 4.6 and Sonnet 4.5. Claude Sonnet 5 has a separate r".
AnthropicLIMITSADDEDTUE SEP 1, 18:26
The line, as the page carries it
+3 Sonnet 4.x rate limit is a total limit that applies to combined traffic across Sonnet 4.6 and Sonnet 4.5. Claude Sonne: "3 Sonnet 4.x rate limit is a total limit that applies to combined traffic across Sonnet 4.6 and Sonnet 4.5. Claude Sonnet 5 has a separate rate limit and is not part of this combined bucket."
The record
| DOCUMENT | https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/api/rate-limits |
|---|---|
| SOURCE | anthropic-rate-limits |
| ROW | 3 Sonnet 4.x rate limit is a total limit that applies to combined traffic across Sonnet 4.6 and Sonnet 4.5. Claude Sonne |
| OPERATION | added |
| BEFORE | Nothing was recorded because the row did not exist. |
| AFTER | 3 Sonnet 4.x rate limit is a total limit that applies to combined traffic across Sonnet 4.6 and Sonnet 4.5. Claude Sonnet 5 has a separate rate limit and is not part of this combined bucket. |
| READ AT | 2026-09-01T18:26:35.450Z |
| SIGNALS | modelId, limit |
What went out
- BLUESKY2026-09-04 18:05Anthropic added a line to its rate limits page in the Claude platform docs: "3 Sonnet 4.x rate limit is a total limit that applies to combined traffic across Sonnet 4.6 and Sonnet 4.5. Claude Sonnet 5 has a separate rate limit and is not part of this combined bucket. #TechBluesky