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Claude Max is Anthropic's $100-per-month individual subscription for Claude, sitting above the $20 Claude Pro plan. [28] Anthropic launched Max on April 9, 2025 in two tiers, a $100 tier advertised as giving five times Pro's usage and a $200 tier advertised as giving twenty times Pro's usage, which became known as Max 5x and Max 20x. [1][2][3][30] On October 30, 2026, Anthropic renamed them: Max 5x became simply Max, and Max 20x became Ultra, with prices unchanged and no action required from subscribers. [25] As of October 31, 2026, Max gives five times Pro's usage every five hours and every week, while Ultra ($200 per month) gives ten times Pro's weekly usage and has no five-hour limit for verified accounts. [4][27][28] Both include Anthropic's Fable models for up to half of the weekly limit and a monthly credit for the Claude API: $100 on Max and $200 on Ultra. [19][24][28]

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Claude uses an account-specific rolling 5-hour window. Paid plans also have weekly limits that reset at a fixed time each week assigned to your account, and Max plans add a separate weekly limit for Fable models. Claude, Claude Code, and Cowork draw from the same subscription allowance.

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  1. Full limit reset for Claude Duet preview users

    Banked resetUS Pro and Max users admitted to the Claude Duet research preview

    Each user admitted to the Claude Duet research preview gets one full reset of both the five-hour session and weekly limits, available until November 30, 2026. Duet's background work, such as the morning brief and check-ins, counts against the same limits.

    Offer window: through Nov 30, 2026

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  2. Artifact work uses half the five-hour limit

    PromotionPro, Max, and Team plans; Free from October 7

    Work that follows creating or editing an artifact in Claude or Cowork counts 50% less toward the five-hour session limit. Weekly limits and Claude Code are not affected.

    Offer window: through Oct 15, 2026

    View source
  3. Saved reset granted at the Opus 5.5 launch

    Banked resetPro, Max, and Team plans

    Anthropic gave each eligible account one reset to apply from Settings > Usage at any time until October 22.

    Offer window: through Oct 22, 2026

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  4. Weekly limits reset for Max

    Full resetClaude Max plans

    Anthropic reset weekly limits for everyone on a Max plan after the Fable 5.1 launch.

    View source
  5. Five-hour and weekly limits reset at Fable 5.1 launch

    Full resetAll Claude users

    Anthropic reset both usage windows for all users alongside the Fable 5.1 launch.

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  6. Claude Code weekly-limit boost extended to September 13

    PromotionPro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans

    The 50% increase stayed in place through September 13. From September 14, Claude Code weekly limits are permanently 25% above their pre-promotion level.

    Offer window: through Sep 13, 2026

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  7. Claude Code weekly-limit boost extended to August 31

    PromotionPro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans

    Anthropic extended the temporary 50% weekly-limit increase in Claude Code through August 31.

    Offer window: through Aug 31, 2026

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  8. Cowork five-hour usage boost extended again

    PromotionPaid Claude plans

    Anthropic's help article (archived August 5 and 18, 2026) listed the Cowork 2x five-hour promotion as running through August 19, 2026.

    Offer window: through Aug 19, 2026

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Max and Ultra are billed monthly, and their allowance is shared across Claude's web, desktop and mobile apps, Claude Code and Claude Cowork. [4][5][14][31] Anthropic added weekly usage limits to the plan in August 2025. [6] A proposed class action filed in June 2026 alleges that the "5x" and "20x" labels overstated the usage subscribers received, and at the rename Anthropic's product lead for subscriptions said the "20x" figure had applied only to the five-hour limit, with the weekly limit set at 10x Pro. [26][34]

Plans at a glance

The table summarizes Anthropic's individual plans as listed on its pricing page on October 31, 2026. Usage figures are multiples of the Pro allowance; Anthropic does not publish absolute message or token counts, and says how quickly a limit is reached depends on the model, the length of chats and the size of files. [28]

PlanMonthly priceFive-hour limitWeekly limitFable modelsMonthly API creditBilling
Free$0LimitedLimitedNot availableNonen/a
Pro$20 monthly, or $17 a month billed annually ($200 up front)1x (baseline)1xPaid with usage creditsNoneMonthly or annual
Max$1005x Pro5x ProUp to 50% of weekly limits$100Monthly
Ultra$200None for verified accounts10x ProUp to 50% of weekly limits$200Monthly

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Max adds "early access to advanced Claude features" and "priority access at high traffic times" to everything in Pro, and Ultra includes everything in Max. [28] Anthropic notes that its listed prices are for web subscriptions and that mobile pricing may vary by app platform. [4][27]

Launch in April 2025

Anthropic introduced the Max plan on April 9, 2025, describing it as "designed for those who collaborate with Claude extensively and need expanded access for their most important work." [3] The launch post offered two usage levels: "Expanded Usage," with 5x more usage than Pro for $100 per month, and "Maximum Flexibility," with 20x more usage than Pro for $200 per month. It said subscribers could change level as their needs changed, promised priority access to new features and models, and made the plan available in every region where Claude was offered. [3] CNBC reported that subscribers would get "priority access to new models and capabilities," including Claude's voice mode when it launched. [2]

TechCrunch described Max as Anthropic's answer to OpenAI's $200-per-month ChatGPT Pro tier, noting that frontier model developers were looking for new ways to raise revenue and that, unlike ChatGPT Pro, Anthropic still had no unlimited usage plan. [1] Scott White, Anthropic's product lead, told TechCrunch the company was not ruling out pricier subscriptions; asked about a $500-per-month plan, he said, "We'll always keep a number of exploratory options available to us." [1] He also said Claude 3.7 Sonnet had created "a lot of demand" for Anthropic's products. [1] White told CNBC that Anthropic had been receiving requests for a tier like Max for at least a year, much of it from "pragmatic professional usage" such as coding, financial services, media and entertainment, and marketing. [2]

Tier (until October 30, 2026)PriceLaunch descriptionHelp center description (October 2026)Name since October 30, 2026
Max 5x$100 per month"Expanded Usage: 5x more usage than Pro" [3]5 times Pro's per-session usage allowance [30]Max [25]
Max 20x$200 per month"Maximum Flexibility: 20x more usage than Pro" [3]20 times Pro's per-session usage allowance [30]Ultra [25]

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In May 2025 Anthropic's help center put the launch-era allowances at approximately 225 messages every five hours on the $100 tier and approximately 900 on the $200 tier. [8] Until the October 2026 rename, the help center's Max article gave the plan's headline benefit as "5x or 20x the Pro plan's usage allowance, depending on your selected tier," while its usage-limits section specified the multiples per session (five hours); it did not state a weekly multiple for either tier. [30]

Claude Code and the shared allowance

Claude Code, Anthropic's agentic coding tool for software development, reached Max before Pro. By May 1, 2025, a help center article explained that Max subscribers could use Claude Code in the terminal and the Claude apps "with one unified subscription," and that all activity in both counted against the same usage limits. [8] By June 4, 2025, the article had been retitled to cover Pro as well. [9] As of October 2026, Pro, Max and Ultra all include Claude Code in the terminal and in supported IDEs such as VS Code, Cursor and JetBrains IDEs, drawing from the same limits as the apps; if an ANTHROPIC_API_KEY environment variable is set, Claude Code bills the API key instead of the subscription. [5]

Claude Code has a small "wrap-up allowance" for responses already in progress when a five-hour limit is hit, shown as "Usage limit reached · wrapping up" and counted toward the weekly limit. On Max it can apply each time the five-hour limit is reached; verified Ultra accounts have no five-hour limit, so it does not apply to them, while unverified Ultra accounts with a temporary limit get it as on Max. Anthropic says the allowance is rolling out gradually and may not yet be available on every account. [5]

In April 2026, GIGAZINE reported that Anthropic's pricing page had been seen listing Claude Code as unavailable on Pro. Amol Avasare, whom GIGAZINE identified as Anthropic's head of growth, said on X that the company was "running a small test on ~2% of new prosumer signups" and that existing Pro and Max subscribers were not affected. [13] As of October 31, 2026, the pricing page lists Claude Code on Pro, Max and Ultra. [28]

Weekly limits (2025)

The first major changes to Max's limits followed heavy use of Claude Code. On July 17, 2025, TechCrunch reported that Claude Code users, many of them on the $200 Max plan, had been hitting unexpectedly restrictive limits since earlier that week without any announcement; an Anthropic representative confirmed the issues but declined to elaborate. [10]

On July 28, 2025, Anthropic announced weekly rate limits for Pro and Max, effective August 28, 2025, on top of the existing limits that reset every five hours. [6][7] There were two new weekly limits: one for overall usage and one specific to Claude Opus 4. [6] Anthropic estimated the caps would affect fewer than 5 percent of subscribers and said they were aimed at people running Claude Code "continuously in the background, 24/7" and at account sharing and resale. [6][7] Anthropic told TechCrunch that Max subscribers could buy usage beyond the limits at standard API rates, and that the $200 plan offered 20x more usage than Pro. [6]

Plan (August 2025)Weekly Claude Sonnet 4 hours in Claude CodeWeekly Opus 4 hours
Pro40 to 80Not stated
Max, $100140 to 28015 to 35
Max, $200240 to 48024 to 40

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Anthropic's estimates, as reported by TechCrunch; usage varied with codebase size and other factors. [6]

When Claude Opus 4.5 launched on November 24, 2025, Anthropic removed Opus-specific caps for Claude and Claude Code users with access to the model, and said it had increased overall usage limits for Max and Team Premium users so they would have "roughly the same number of Opus tokens" as they previously had with Sonnet. [11] In July 2026 the Max help article described the second weekly limit as covering Sonnet models only; by October 2026 it described a separate weekly limit for Fable models instead. [4][38]

Early access to features

Max subscribers have often received new Claude features before Pro, in line with the plan's "priority access" promise. [3][4] Examples from Anthropic's release notes:

DateFeatureMax rollout
September 16, 2025Claude in ChromeExpanded to 10,000 Max users; remaining Max waitlist admitted September 29; all Max subscribers November 24; all paid plans December 18, 2025 [12]
October 23, 2025MemoryMax, then Pro over the following two weeks (Team and Enterprise plans had it from September 2025) [12]
November 24, 2025Claude for Excel betaMax, Team and Enterprise [12]
January 12, 2026Claude Cowork research preview (macOS desktop)Max first; Pro on January 16, 2026 [12]
March 17, 2026Persistent Cowork thread from a phone (Dispatch)Max first; Pro over the next two days [12]
July 7, 2026Cowork on web and mobileRollout starting with Max [12]

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Changes in 2026

DateChange
April 2026Anthropic stopped Claude subscriptions from covering usage in third-party tools such as OpenClaw. [14][16]
May 2026Anthropic announced that from June 15, 2026, programmatic use (the Claude Agent SDK, claude -p, Claude Code GitHub Actions and third-party apps built on the SDK) would move to a separate monthly "Agent SDK credit": $20 for Pro, $100 for Max 5x and $200 for Max 20x. [14]
June 9, 2026Claude Fable 5 launched; access was suspended on June 12 and restored on July 1. [12]
June 15, 2026Anthropic paused the Agent SDK credit change on the day it was due, telling subscribers, "For now, nothing has changed." [15][16]
July 1 to 19, 2026A promotion let Pro, Max and Team subscribers use up to 50% of weekly limits on Fable 5 at no extra cost; first set to run from July 1 to July 7, it was extended and ended on July 19. [17][18]
July 20, 2026Fable 5 became a standard part of Max (up to 50% of weekly limits), while Pro moved to paying for it with usage credits. [18]
September 1, 2026Claude Fable 5.1 launched; it works on Max the same way as Fable 5. [12][19]
September 14, 2026A permanent 25% increase in standard weekly Claude Code limits for Pro, Max, Team and seat-based Enterprise replaced a temporary 50% increase; Anthropic acknowledged this was a 17% reduction from the promotional level. [20][21]
September 22, 2026With Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Code five-hour session limits rose 20%, and Pro, Max and Team users received a limit reset to use by October 22. [22][23]
October 7, 2026Monthly API credits for Max and Team plans began rolling out. [12]
October 30, 2026Max 5x renamed Max and Max 20x renamed Ultra; Anthropic began removing the five-hour limit for verified Ultra accounts, starting with most existing subscribers. [25][26]

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Rename to Max and Ultra

Anthropic announced the rename in a post on the @claudeai X account at 17:29 UTC on October 30, 2026. "We're renaming our Max plans," it began, listing Max 5x as becoming Max and Max 20x as becoming Ultra, and continued: "Max is still $100/month, and Ultra is still $200. If you're a subscriber, there's nothing you need to do." [25] The same post said Anthropic was removing the five-hour limit for verified Ultra accounts, "starting today with most existing subscribers," that newer accounts would keep a temporary limit until verified "which helps us prevent fraud and abuse," and that "Weekly limits remain unchanged." [25] The help center says existing Max 20x subscribers moved to Ultra automatically with no price change. [27]

The rename also changed how the $200 plan's allowance is described. The pricing page on the morning of October 30 still offered a single Max plan "From $100" with "Choose 5x or 20x more usage than Pro," and its FAQ said Max gave "5x or 20x more usage per 5-hour session than Pro." [29] After the change, the page lists Ultra with "10x Pro usage every week." [28] Mike Overell, who said he leads product for Claude subscriptions, explained the history in a post the same day: "When we launched our top plan in April 2025, it had a single limit: 5 hours. It gave you 20x Pro's limit, so we called it Max 20x. When we added weekly limits to Max 20x, we set them to 10x Pro's (the 5-hour limit stayed at 20x)." He added, "I get that some new users assumed 20x applied to both limits. We could have done better here, and I'm sorry," and said the removal of the five-hour limit "rolls out in stages." [26]

The $100 plan kept its price and is now described as giving "five times the Pro plan's usage every five hours and every week." [4] Its pricing card lists Fable "included, up to half your weekly limit" and "$100 a month in API credits to build on the Claude Platform," both flagged as new, although the comparison table on the pre-rename page already listed both for Max 5x and Max 20x. [28][29]

Ultra plan

Ultra is the former Max 20x plan, priced at $200 per month and sold as a monthly subscription only. [27] Anthropic describes it as giving "10 times the Pro plan's usage every week," with a weekly limit across all models and a separate weekly limit for Fable. Verified accounts have no five-hour limit; the help center frames this as being able to "work at your own pace within your weekly limit." [27] Like Max, it includes priority access to new models and features, Claude Code, and longer multi-step tasks that keep running in the background. [27]

Verification is automatic. Anthropic says it verifies Ultra accounts "using factors like your account and payment history," that an unverified account has a temporary limit which is removed automatically, and that verifying a phone number at checkout is a separate step that does not remove the limit. Subscribers can check their status in Settings > Usage: if no "Current session" bar appears, the account is verified. [27]

Other Ultra terms, as of October 31, 2026:

  • A limit reset, when Anthropic grants one, resets only the weekly limits on Ultra, whereas on Max it can reset either the five-hour or the weekly limit. [4][27]
  • After reaching the weekly or Fable limit, Ultra subscribers can continue on usage credits billed at standard API rates. [5][33]
  • Ultra includes $200 a month in API credits. Upgrading from Max to Ultra is charged pro rata for the rest of the billing cycle; subscribers who have claimed API credits receive prorated credits immediately and $200 each cycle after that. [4][24]

ShiftDelete.net noted that the change came one day after OpenAI doubled usage limits on its ChatGPT Pro tiers and dropped a planned reduction to its $200 tier, and that both companies were competing for developers and power users paying $100 to $200 a month. [37]

Monthly API credits

Anthropic added monthly API credits to Max and Team plans on October 7, 2026, rolling them out over several days. [12] They are meant for building apps and agents on the Claude Platform and are claimed by linking a Claude Console organization to the subscription in Settings > Billing. [24]

PlanMonthly credit
Max$100
Ultra$200
Team, standard seat$20 per seat, pooled, capped at $500 per team
Team, premium seat$100 per seat, pooled, capped at $500 per team
Free, Pro, EnterpriseNot eligible

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Source: Anthropic help center, October 2026. [24]

The help center sets out these terms: [24]

  • Eligibility. The subscription must be active and in good standing, and new subscribers can claim after seven days on an eligible plan. Credits can be claimed only on claude.ai in a web browser, and no payment method is needed on the Claude Platform.
  • What they cover. The Claude API (Messages and Message Batches), the Console Playground, Claude Managed Agents and the Claude Agent SDK. They do not cover interactive Claude Code in the terminal, IDE, desktop or web, extra usage in Claude, Claude Code or Cowork, or Claude on Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI or Microsoft Foundry.
  • How they work. Credits refresh each billing cycle, do not roll over, are spent before purchased credits, are shared by everyone with an API key in the linked organization, and do not change usage limits in Claude, Claude Code or Cowork. If they run out and the organization has no other credits, API requests stop until the next grant; usage is never charged to the Claude plan.
  • claude -p and the Agent SDK. Runs are covered when authenticated with an API key from the linked organization; when signed in with the Claude plan instead, they draw from the plan's usage limits.

The help center says the credits are not the Agent SDK credit announced earlier in 2026, which it describes as unavailable. [24] That earlier plan, announced in May 2026, would have moved programmatic usage off subscription limits into a separate credit of $100 for Max 5x and $200 for Max 20x from June 15; Anthropic paused it that day, saying it was "working to update the plan to better support how users build with Claude subscriptions." [14][15]

Models and Fable access

Max and Ultra include Anthropic's Opus, Sonnet and Haiku models, with context windows of up to 1 million tokens depending on the model. [28] Opus 5.5 became the default model for paid plans on September 22, 2026. [23]

Fable 5 and Fable 5.1 are a standard part of Max and Ultra. Subscribers can spend up to 50% of their weekly usage limits on Fable models at no extra cost; the models draw from the regular weekly limits and use them faster than other Claude models. Once the Fable limit is reached, subscribers can continue with usage credits or switch to another model. The 50% figure is a ceiling within the weekly limit, not an addition to it. On Pro, Fable runs only on pay-as-you-go usage credits. [19]

Usage limits on Max

As of October 31, 2026, Max has three limits: a five-hour session limit, a weekly limit across all models, and a separate weekly limit for Fable. [4] The five-hour period begins with the first message and resets in full five hours later. The weekly limit resets at a fixed day and time assigned to each account, regardless of when the subscription began, and both appear in Settings > Usage. [4][31] Usage across claude.ai, Claude Code and Claude Desktop counts toward the same limits. [31]

Anthropic reserves the right to limit usage in other ways "such as weekly and monthly caps or model and feature usage," and says it does not guarantee uninterrupted service. [4] Subscribers who reach a limit can wait for it to reset, upgrade, or turn on usage credits, which bill continued use at standard API rates, with an optional monthly spending cap. [28][33] Anthropic occasionally grants limit resets that return a five-hour or weekly limit to full when the subscriber chooses; they do not change the weekly reset day. [32]

Comparison with Pro and team plans

Claude Pro costs $20 a month (or $17 a month billed annually) and gives more usage than Free every five hours and every week, along with Claude Code; it runs Fable models only on usage credits and includes no monthly API credit. [28] Max costs five times as much and provides five times Pro's usage on both limits, plus included Fable access, API credits and priority access at busy times. [4][28]

Max and Ultra are for individual consumers. Team and Enterprise plans, covered in Claude for Work, are organized around seats and administrative controls. On Team, a premium seat costs $100 per month billed annually ($125 monthly) and gives five times the usage of a standard seat, including Fable for up to 50% of weekly limits; Enterprise is priced at $20 per seat per month plus usage at API rates. [28]

Lawsuits over the usage multipliers

On June 14, 2026, Claude subscriber Karl Kahn filed a proposed class action against Anthropic in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. [34][36] Decrypt reported that the complaint alleges Anthropic misled customers about how much usage the Max plans included and did not clearly explain how usage was measured. It seeks damages, restitution and injunctive relief on behalf of U.S. residents who bought or upgraded to Max 5x or Max 20x on Claude.com or the desktop app from April 9, 2025 onward. [34]

On September 8, 2026, the plaintiffs filed a consolidated complaint combining Kahn's case with a related case, Smith v. Anthropic, brought by a second plaintiff, Solomon Smith, before Magistrate Judge Alex G. Tse. [36][39][40] Engadget, citing The Verge, reported the filing as a new class action and summarized its central claim: Anthropic marketed Max by its multiples over Pro within the five-hour session window, while Max subscribers were also subject to weekly limits introduced months after launch. [35] Plaintiffs' attorney Monica Vaca argued that the terms required people to click through several links to understand, and Engadget noted a widely shared Reddit calculation claiming the $200 tier delivered only about 1.7 times the weekly usage of the $100 tier. [35] Anthropic moved to dismiss the consolidated complaint on September 22, 2026, and the plaintiffs filed their opposition on October 6; a hearing on the motion had been set for November 6, 2026. [36][40] A reply brief was filed on October 20, and the court docket lists an entry dated October 30, 2026 labeled "Order on Motion to Dismiss", whose text was not available in the public docket listing as of October 31, 2026. [39]

Reception

Coverage of the April 2025 launch focused on price and competitive positioning. TechCrunch and CNBC both compared the $200 tier with ChatGPT Pro, and TechCrunch presented it as part of a search by AI companies building frontier models for new revenue from power users. [1][2]

Later coverage centered on limits. In July 2025, before the weekly caps were announced, a Max subscriber told TechCrunch that the $200 plan often let him make over $1,000 worth of calls a day at API prices, but that Anthropic should communicate changes better: "Just be transparent. The lack of communication just causes people to lose confidence in them." [10] The May 2026 Agent SDK credit plan would have affected third-party tools built on the SDK: in a blog post, Zed's head of growth and marketing, Franciska Dethlefsen, wrote that, according to an analysis by engineer Matthew Diakonov, subscriptions had subsidized that kind of usage at roughly 15 to 30 times the equivalent API cost, and that the new credits would be billed at full API rates. Anthropic paused the change before it took effect. [15]

Reporting the October 2026 rename the same day, ShiftDelete.net wrote that the clearer names "should also end some confusion around the old '5x' and '20x' labels" and that, for Ultra subscribers, long agentic coding or research sessions no longer stop after five hours "as long as the weekly allowance lasts." [37]

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