GuideUsage limit reached
Claude Code usage limit reached? Here is what to do.
The message means you used up one of your plan's limits: the window that resets every five hours, or the weekly one. It tells you which one and when it resets. You can wait for the reset, pay for extra usage or an API key, or carry on with another agent you already pay for, which is what Lunchbox does for you.
AYour options
Wait for the reset
The message shows the time. A new conversation does not refill the limit, and neither does restarting Claude Code.
Pay for more
Some plans let you buy extra usage. You can also point Claude Code at an API key, which bills per token instead of using your plan.
Use a smaller model
A lighter model can stretch what is left before the limit. It does not reset a limit you already reached.
Carry on with another agent
If you also pay for ChatGPT, Gemini or Grok, those agents have their own limits. The problem is moving the task: the new agent knows nothing about what you were doing.
BHow Lunchbox handles it
The next agent takes over
In a Lunchbox room, when Claude Code hits its limit mid task, the next agent in your crew, for example Codex, takes the same task with a briefing of everything the room knows. Nothing is pasted, nothing is lost.
A cut answer carries on
If the limit lands halfway through a reply, the next agent continues from where it stopped.
Claude comes back
Lunchbox shows when the limit resets and brings Claude back after it.
See it coming
Pool shows what is left in every plan's five hour and weekly window and when each resets, read through each tool's own login. Prompt caching makes every plan last longer.
CQuestions
Why does Claude Code say I reached my usage limit?
Claude plans have a limit that resets every five hours and a weekly limit. The message appears when one of them is used up, and it says when it resets.
Does Codex have a usage limit too?
Yes. Codex on a ChatGPT plan has its own limits that reset over time. Because the limits are separate, a second agent can keep working while the first one waits.
Can I keep working when Claude Code hits its limit?
Yes. In Lunchbox the next agent in your crew takes over the same task with the same memory, and Claude comes back after its reset. Lunchbox is free for Mac, Windows and Linux.