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2026-10-03 08:58 UTC · anthropic/rate-limits · live page

Added Claude Sonnet 5.5 to the rate limits table and updated the Sonnet 4.x bucket description to exclude it.

Summary by gemma-4-12b. It may be wrong; the diff below is what actually changed. Raw: 659372aa46-anthropic-rate-limits.diff · commit 659372aa46

diff --git a/snapshots/anthropic/rate-limits.md b/snapshots/anthropic/rate-limits.mdindex 815e1d1..96effe9 100644--- a/snapshots/anthropic/rate-limits.md+++ b/snapshots/anthropic/rate-limits.md@@ -51,5 +51,5 @@ Once you reach your tier's spend cap, API usage pauses until 00:00 UTC on the fi ``` -- The error type is `rate_limit_error`, the same as for a rate limit, but the response has no `retry-after` header. Retrying, including the SDKs' automatic retries, fails until access resumes.+- The error type is `rate_limit_error`, the same as for a rate limit, but the response has no `retry-after` header. Retrying, including the SDK's automatic retries, fails until access resumes. - On the Messages API, `error.details.error_code` is `enforced_spend_limit_reached`. Use it to tell this response apart from a rate limit. - Moving to a higher tier restores access; see Requesting higher limits.@@ -118,4 +118,5 @@ Rate limits are currently shared across all `inference_geo` values. Requests wit | Claude Opus 5 | 1,000 | 2,000,000 | 400,000 | | Claude Opus 4.x2 | 1,000 | 2,000,000 | 400,000 |+| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | 1,000 | 2,000,000 | 400,000 | | Claude Sonnet 5 | 1,000 | 2,000,000 | 400,000 | | Claude Sonnet 4.x3 | 1,000 | 2,000,000 | 400,000 |@@ -127,5 +128,5 @@ Rate limits are currently shared across all `inference_geo` values. Requests wit 2 Opus rate limit is a total limit that applies to combined traffic across Claude Opus 4.8, Opus 4.7, Opus 4.6, and Opus 4.5. Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Opus 5 each have a separate rate limit and are not part of this combined bucket. -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.+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 5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5 each have a separate rate limit and are not part of this combined bucket.  4 Limit counts `cache_read_input_tokens` toward ITPM usage.

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