Where to see your Claude limits on web, desktop and phone

The main place is Settings > Usage, at claude.ai/settings/usage on the web and in the same Settings screen of Claude Desktop and the Claude mobile apps. It shows your session use and time remaining, your weekly limits and, if you have usage credits, your credit spend. Claude Code has its own views too: /usage in the terminal, and a usage dialog in the VS Code extension. Here is each one, with what it does and does not show, as of November 2026.

Settings > Usage on web, Desktop and mobile

Anthropic's description: Settings > Usage shows "Current session" (percent used and time remaining), "Weekly limits" for all models and for Fable if your plan includes it, and usage credits (Help Center).

What you can read there:

• Current session: how much of the five-hour window you have used, and how long until it resets. The window starts with your first message (when the 5-hour limit resets).
• Weekly limits: the all-models limit and, on plans that have one, a separate Fable limit (how the Fable weekly limit works). Anthropic says "You can see your next reset time in Settings > Usage" (Help Center). The reset is at a fixed time assigned to your account (when the weekly limit resets).
• Usage credits: if enabled, your spend and monthly spend limit. You turn them on in the same Settings > Usage (Help Center).
• Limit resets: if Anthropic has given you one, it is in the "Limit resets" section (what "Reset for free" does).

These figures are account-wide, so they include chat, Claude Desktop, Claude Code and IDE use together (why).

What a missing "Current session" bar means

If you are on Ultra and see no "Current session" bar, that is expected. Anthropic says: "go to Settings > Usage. If you don't see a Current session bar, your account is verified", and "Verified Ultra accounts don't have a five-hour limit" (Ultra plan article). A verified Ultra account has weekly limits only; an Ultra account that is not verified yet has a temporary limit until it is. See Ultra verified accounts.

The usage ring in Claude Desktop

In the Claude Desktop app you can click the usage ring to check usage (Claude Code docs). In the Desktop Code tab, the session-limit card has an "Auto-continue when limits reset" checkbox, which is separate from the terminal setting (Claude Code docs).

Claude Code: /usage

Type /usage in Claude Code. Anthropic describes it as: "Show session cost, plan usage limits, and activity stats. On a Pro, Max, Ultra, Team, or Enterprise plan, includes a breakdown of what counts against your plan limits." /cost and /stats are aliases (commands docs).

On a subscription you can ignore the dollar figure. The Session cost block "is intended for API users", and subscribers see "plan usage bars, activity stats, and a usage breakdown on the same screen" (costs docs).

Two cautions:

• If Claude Code cannot fetch your plan limits, /usage shows the last bars it loaded within 60 minutes, with a "Showing last-known usage" note. Press r to retry. A message such as rate limited until 3:14am means Claude Code cannot fetch your limits until then, "not that your work with Claude is limited" (same page).
• The breakdown comes "from local session history on this machine, so usage from other devices or claude.ai is not included", though the limit bars themselves are account-wide (same page).

The screen is covered in how to check your Claude Code usage with /usage. One more trap: the Help Center still tells subscribers to monitor allocation with /status, but the Claude Code docs put plan limits under /usage. Use /usage for limits and /status for which account and login are active (status vs usage).

The VS Code extension

In the VS Code extension, the Account & usage dialog shows the attribution and recommendations with a Day/Week toggle (costs docs). Claude Code in IDEs counts toward the same shared limits (Help Center); see do Claude Code limits apply in VS Code and JetBrains.

The status line

If you want the percentages always visible in the terminal, Claude Code's status line scripts receive rate_limits.five_hour.used_percentage and rate_limits.seven_day.used_percentage, with matching reset times. They appear only for claude.ai Pro, Max and Ultra subscribers, only after the first API response in a session, and each window may be absent. No per-model field is documented (status line docs). Setting that up is in show your Claude limits in the Claude Code status line.

Warnings inside the apps

You also get warnings before a limit. Claude Code can show a message such as "You've used 85% of your session limit · resets 3:45pm" (Claude Code docs), and the Claude apps show "Approaching session limit" or "Approaching weekly limit", or the percentage used when it is available (Help Center). If a stop comes before the bar looks full, see hit the limit before the bar reached 100%.

Which places show what

One view for several accounts

Every official view above shows the account you are signed in to. If you run Claude Code on a Mac with more than one account, such as a personal plan and a work seat, Headroom is a free menu bar app that lists every Claude Code account signed in on the Mac, one row each, with session and weekly meters. The menu bar number is the average session use. Click a row for each limit as a bar with "% used" and a reset countdown plus clock time.

Headroom does not cover the Claude desktop, web or mobile apps on their own, API key billing, or accounts never signed in to Claude Code on that Mac. It never sends a prompt. It reads usage figures Anthropic does not publish as an official interface, so it can break until updated. It is independent of Anthropic and not endorsed by it.