Overview
- Free, Pro, Max and Team users get doubled access during off‑peak windows, while Enterprise accounts are excluded.
- Weekdays outside 8 a.m.–2 p.m. Eastern and all day on weekends count for the boost, which doubles Claude’s rolling five‑hour usage window.
- The increase is applied automatically across Claude on web, desktop and mobile, plus Cowork, Claude Code, and integrations for Excel and PowerPoint.
- Extra usage during the promotion does not count toward weekly limits, billing does not change, and normal caps resume after March 27.
- Coverage links the timing to Anthropic’s public dispute with the U.S. Department of Defense and a recent influx of users, and analysts see a load‑balancing and user‑acquisition play; reporting also indicates the boost does not extend to the Claude API.