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OpenAI, Anthropic Offer Double the Usage Limit to Select Users Till the New Year

OpenAI, Anthropic Offer Double the Usage Limit to Select Users Till the New Year

OpenAI is offering twice the usage limits to its Codex users until January 1, 2026.

Written by Akash Dutta, Edited by Rohan Pal | Updated: 26 December 2025 18:37 IST

OpenAI, Anthropic Offer Double the Usage Limit to Select Users Till the New Year

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OpenAI’s Codex can be used as a CLI, within ChatGPT, or as an IDE extension in VS Code and Cursor

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Highlights

Anthropic’s offer is valid for Claude Pro and Claude Max users
The Anthropic offer does not apply to Team or Enterprise plans
OpenAI Codex is an AI-powered coding agent

OpenAI and Anthropic are temporarily increasing usage limits for select users of their artificial intelligence (AI) coding agent, Codex, and Claude as part of a holiday season offer. OpenAI has reset and lifted rate limits to twice the usual level for Codex users until January 1, 2026. At the same time, Anthropic has announced a holiday usage promotion that gives its Pro and Max subscribers double their usual usage limits between December 25 and 31 on Claude's platforms across mobile, desktop, and web.

OpenAI and Anthropic Offer Holiday Benefits to Users

The OpenAI offer was announced in a post on X (formerly known as Twitter) by the company's Member of Technical Staff, Thibault Sottiaux, who said, “For Codex users, to thank you all for the fun we've had over the last months, our first gift is that we have reset rate limits and are lifting the usage limits to 2X the usual limits until the 1st of Jan.”

Codex is OpenAI's specialised AI agent for coding tasks, which can handle end-to-end development based on a text prompt or images that showcase the basic idea behind the software. It can be used locally as a command-line interface (CLI), within ChatGPT, and as an integrated development environment via platforms such as Visual Studio (VS) Code and Cursor.

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Similarly, Claude's official handle also posted about its promotion on the same social media platform, “Starting at midnight PT tonight, all Pro and Max plans have 2x their usual usage limits through New Year's Eve.” The details of the promotion have also been documented in a support page.

Anthropic's holiday usage increases are offered to individual subscribers only; Team and Enterprise plans are not eligible. Both existing subscribers and new users who sign up for Pro or Max during the promotional period qualify for the doubled limits. Once the promotion ends, usage limits return to standard levels for each subscription.

The promotions come as many AI platforms adjust controls around metering and caps that govern how much of the service each paid tier can consume in a given period, usually defined by rolling windows and weekly usage caps. Both announcements focus on developers, professionals and heavy users who hit existing limits during intense workloads.

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Akash Dutta is a Chief Sub Editor at Gadgets 360. He is particularly interested in the social impact of technological developments and loves reading about emerging fields such as AI, metaverse, and fediverse. In his free time, he can be seen supporting his favourite football club - Chelsea, watching movies and anime, and sharing passionate opinions on food. More