---
title: "Hit Your Claude Code Usage Limit? How to Keep Coding"
source: "OpenRouter：Announcements（RSS）"
source_tier: "t1"
url: "https://openrouter.ai/blog/tutorials/claude-code-usage-limit/"
permalink: "https://feed.astralor.com/items/itm_40aa7c67df0d57e1df90116c"
published: "2026-10-28T00:00:00.000Z"
score: 55
channel: "tech"
tags: ["Anthropic","Hit Your Claude","Code Usage Limit","Keep Coding When","Claude Code","OpenRouter API","You","Claude"]
---

# Hit Your Claude Code Usage Limit? How to Keep Coding

## At a glance

When Claude Code hits your plan's five-hour or weekly limit, you can keep working by pointing it at an OpenRouter API key. You pay per token for the same Claude models, with no usage window. This guide sets it up as a s…

## Key points

- When Claude Code hits your plan's usage limit, switch the session to a pay-per-token API key through OpenRouter and keep working with the same Claude models.

## Full text

When Claude Code hits your plan's usage limit, switch the session to a pay-per-token API key through OpenRouter and keep working with the same Claude models.

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