{
 "meta": {
  "verified": "2026-10-27",
  "next_check": "2026-11-27",
  "title": "Claude Max Pricing Guide",
  "page_id": 6926,
  "license": "Charts and figures: CC BY 4.0 with credit to Suprmind and a link to the guide. Third-party figures keep their original source."
 },
 "plans": [
  {
   "k": "pro",
   "name": "Pro",
   "price_month": 20,
   "billing": "Or $17 a month billed yearly, $200 up front",
   "src": "anth-pricing",
   "points": [
    "The base usage that Max multiplies",
    "Claude Code included, in the same pool as chat",
    "Fable models only on paid usage credits",
    "No monthly API credits"
   ]
  },
  {
   "k": "max5",
   "name": "Max 5x",
   "price_month": 100,
   "billing": "Billed monthly only",
   "src": "help-max",
   "points": [
    "5x Pro's usage per five-hour session",
    "A weekly limit on top: about 3.5x Pro's in Anthropic's July 2025 estimates",
    "Up to 50% of the weekly limit on Fable models",
    "$100 of Claude API credits a month",
    "Higher output limits, priority at busy times, early access to features"
   ]
  },
  {
   "k": "max20",
   "name": "Max 20x",
   "price_month": 200,
   "billing": "Billed monthly only",
   "src": "help-max",
   "points": [
    "20x Pro's usage per five-hour session",
    "A weekly limit on top: about 6x Pro's in Anthropic's July 2025 estimates",
    "Up to 50% of the weekly limit on Fable models",
    "$200 of Claude API credits a month",
    "Same features as Max 5x"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "team_plans": [
  {
   "name": "Team Standard seat",
   "price": "$25 a seat a month, or $20 billed yearly",
   "seats": "2 to 150",
   "usage": "Team baseline",
   "credits": "$20 a seat, pooled up to $500",
   "src": "anth-pricing"
  },
  {
   "name": "Team Premium seat",
   "price": "$125 a seat a month, or $100 billed yearly",
   "seats": "2 to 150",
   "usage": "5x a Standard seat",
   "credits": "$100 a seat, pooled up to $500",
   "src": "anth-pricing"
  },
  {
   "name": "Enterprise",
   "price": "$20 a seat a month billed yearly, plus usage",
   "seats": "20-seat minimum",
   "usage": "Billed by model and task",
   "credits": "None",
   "src": "anth-pricing"
  }
 ],
 "multipliers": {
  "views": [
   {
    "k": "pro",
    "label": "Compared with Pro",
    "unit": "x Pro",
    "max": 21,
    "ticks": [
     0,
     5,
     10,
     15,
     20
    ],
    "aria": "Max 5x and Max 20x usage compared with Pro, per five-hour session and per week, by source",
    "refs": [
     {
      "v": 5,
      "l": "Max 5x price: 5x Pro"
     },
     {
      "v": 10,
      "l": "Max 20x price: 10x Pro"
     }
    ],
    "groups": [
     {
      "name": "Max 5x",
      "bars": [
       {
        "kind": "session",
        "l": "Per five-hour session",
        "lo": 5,
        "hi": 5,
        "who": "Anthropic pricing page, current",
        "src": "anth-pricing"
       },
       {
        "kind": "official",
        "l": "Per week, Sonnet hours",
        "lo": 3.5,
        "hi": 3.5,
        "who": "Anthropic subscriber emails, July 2025",
        "note": "140 to 280 hours of Sonnet 4, against 40 to 80 on Pro",
        "src": "complaint"
       },
       {
        "kind": "claim",
        "l": "Per week, alleged",
        "lo": 3.5,
        "hi": 3.5,
        "approx": true,
        "who": "Kahn v. Anthropic complaint, June 2026",
        "src": "complaint"
       }
      ]
     },
     {
      "name": "Max 20x",
      "bars": [
       {
        "kind": "session",
        "l": "Per five-hour session",
        "lo": 20,
        "hi": 20,
        "who": "Anthropic pricing page, current",
        "src": "anth-pricing"
       },
       {
        "kind": "official",
        "l": "Per week, Sonnet hours",
        "lo": 6,
        "hi": 6,
        "who": "Anthropic subscriber emails, July 2025",
        "note": "240 to 480 hours of Sonnet 4, against 40 to 80 on Pro",
        "src": "complaint"
       },
       {
        "kind": "claim",
        "l": "Per week, alleged",
        "lo": 6,
        "hi": 8,
        "who": "Kahn v. Anthropic complaint, June 2026",
        "src": "complaint"
       }
      ]
     }
    ]
   },
   {
    "k": "max5",
    "label": "Max 20x vs Max 5x",
    "unit": "x Max 5x",
    "max": 4.4,
    "ticks": [
     0,
     1,
     2,
     3,
     4
    ],
    "aria": "Max 20x usage compared with Max 5x, per five-hour session and per week, by source",
    "refs": [
     {
      "v": 2,
      "l": "Price: 2x"
     }
    ],
    "groups": [
     {
      "name": "Max 20x compared with Max 5x",
      "bars": [
       {
        "kind": "session",
        "l": "Per five-hour session",
        "lo": 4,
        "hi": 4,
        "who": "Anthropic pricing page, current",
        "src": "anth-pricing"
       },
       {
        "kind": "official",
        "l": "Per week, Sonnet hours",
        "lo": 1.71,
        "hi": 1.71,
        "who": "Anthropic subscriber emails, July 2025",
        "note": "240 to 480 hours against 140 to 280",
        "src": "complaint"
       },
       {
        "kind": "official",
        "l": "Per week, Opus hours",
        "lo": 1.14,
        "hi": 1.6,
        "who": "Anthropic subscriber emails, July 2025",
        "note": "24 to 40 hours of Opus 4 against 15 to 35",
        "src": "complaint"
       },
       {
        "kind": "claim",
        "l": "Per week, alleged",
        "lo": 1.1,
        "hi": 1.6,
        "who": "Kahn v. Anthropic complaint, June 2026, paragraph 62",
        "src": "complaint"
       },
       {
        "kind": "measured",
        "l": "Per week, Botfarm test",
        "lo": 2.1,
        "hi": 2.1,
        "approx": true,
        "who": "Botfarm, March 2026",
        "note": "About $1,100 against $523 of weekly usage at API rates, mostly Opus 4.6",
        "src": "botfarm-week"
       }
      ]
     }
    ]
   }
  ]
 },
 "api_prices": [
  {
   "id": "opus55",
   "name": "Claude Opus 5.5",
   "in": 4,
   "cache_write": 5,
   "cache_read": 0.2,
   "out": 20,
   "note": "",
   "src": "api-pricing"
  },
  {
   "id": "sonnet55",
   "name": "Claude Sonnet 5.5",
   "in": 2,
   "cache_write": 2.5,
   "cache_read": 0.1,
   "out": 10,
   "note": "",
   "src": "api-pricing"
  },
  {
   "id": "fable51",
   "name": "Claude Fable 5.1",
   "in": 10,
   "cache_write": 12.5,
   "cache_read": 0.25,
   "out": 50,
   "note": "On Max: up to 50% of the weekly limit",
   "src": "api-pricing"
  },
  {
   "id": "haiku55",
   "name": "Claude Haiku 5.5",
   "in": 0.1,
   "cache_write": 0.125,
   "cache_read": 0.01,
   "out": 0.5,
   "note": "Prompts up to 100K tokens. Above that: $0.50 in, $2.50 out",
   "src": "api-pricing"
  }
 ],
 "calc": {
  "defaults": {
   "usd": 300,
   "tokens_m": 300,
   "cache_pct": 90,
   "output_pct": 1,
   "model": "opus55"
  },
  "max_usd": 5000,
  "max_tokens_m": 3000,
  "models": [
   {
    "id": "opus55",
    "label": "Claude Opus 5.5"
   },
   {
    "id": "sonnet55",
    "label": "Claude Sonnet 5.5"
   },
   {
    "id": "fable51",
    "label": "Claude Fable 5.1"
   },
   {
    "id": "haiku55",
    "label": "Claude Haiku 5.5"
   }
  ],
  "plans": [
   {
    "k": "api",
    "label": "API, per token",
    "sub": "What you entered"
   },
   {
    "k": "pro",
    "label": "Pro",
    "price": 20,
    "sub": "If its limits hold your use"
   },
   {
    "k": "max5",
    "label": "Max 5x",
    "price": 100,
    "credit": 100,
    "sub": "5x Pro per session, $100 API credits"
   },
   {
    "k": "max20",
    "label": "Max 20x",
    "price": 200,
    "credit": 200,
    "sub": "20x Pro per session, $200 API credits"
   }
  ],
  "thresholds": {
   "pro": 20,
   "max5": 100,
   "max20": 200,
   "caution": 1000
  },
  "note": "Plans are sold by usage, not dollars, and Anthropic does not say how many API dollars each plan covers. This compares prices. Your limits decide the rest, so check Settings, Usage before you switch."
 },
 "founder": {
  "api_month_usd": 3600,
  "seats_peak": 3,
  "seats_now": 2,
  "seat_price": 200,
  "labels": {
   "api": "Last month on the API, in Cursor, before Max",
   "peak": "Three Max 20x seats, at the peak",
   "now": "Two Max 20x seats, today"
  },
  "ccusage": null,
  "caption": "Radomir Basta's own Claude spend. The API figure is his last calendar month of running Claude Code in Cursor on his own API key, before he moved to Max. Seats at the $200 web price."
 },
 "reports": [
  {
   "who": "Simon Willison, own month",
   "plan": "max5",
   "kind": "spend",
   "usd_month": 1199.79,
   "basis": "ccusage over 30 days, Claude Code",
   "date": "2026-05-27",
   "src": "willison"
  },
  {
   "who": "Paweł Huryn, own month",
   "plan": "max20",
   "kind": "spend",
   "usd_month": 1588,
   "basis": "One month of Claude Code, 440 sessions",
   "date": "2026-04-08",
   "src": "huryn"
  },
  {
   "who": "Botfarm test, Max 5x maxed",
   "plan": "max5",
   "kind": "capacity",
   "usd_month": 2265,
   "basis": "About $523 a week x 4.33, extrapolated from a partial week. 95% Opus 4.6, measured February 27 to 28, 2026",
   "date": "2026-03-20",
   "src": "botfarm-week"
  },
  {
   "who": "Botfarm test, Max 20x maxed",
   "plan": "max20",
   "kind": "capacity",
   "usd_month": 4763,
   "basis": "About $1,100 a week x 4.33, extrapolated from about 23% of a weekly limit. 95% Opus 4.6, measured February 28 to March 1, 2026",
   "date": "2026-03-20",
   "src": "botfarm-week"
  },
  {
   "who": "SemiAnalysis test, Max 20x maxed",
   "plan": "max20",
   "kind": "capacity",
   "usd_month": 8000,
   "basis": "Long coding tasks run to the weekly limit, priced at API list rates. Reported as about $8,000 a month",
   "date": "2026-06-10",
   "src": "pillitteri-8k"
  }
 ],
 "tiers": [
  {
   "vendor": "Anthropic",
   "product": "Claude Max 5x",
   "price_month": 100,
   "usage": "5x Pro per five-hour session, plus a weekly limit. $100 of API credits a month.",
   "fit": "Claude Code and long Claude sessions",
   "src": "anth-pricing"
  },
  {
   "vendor": "Anthropic",
   "product": "Claude Max 20x",
   "price_month": 200,
   "usage": "20x Pro per five-hour session, plus a weekly limit. $200 of API credits a month.",
   "fit": "All-day Claude Code and long agent runs",
   "src": "anth-pricing"
  },
  {
   "vendor": "OpenAI",
   "product": "ChatGPT Pro, $100 tier",
   "price_month": 100,
   "usage": "5x ChatGPT Plus usage. No five-hour limit on Pro plans, per OpenAI's Codex lead.",
   "fit": "Codex and heavy ChatGPT use",
   "src": "tc-chatgpt-pro"
  },
  {
   "vendor": "OpenAI",
   "product": "ChatGPT Pro, $200 tier",
   "price_month": 200,
   "usage": "10x Plus for anyone subscribing after September 29, 2026, and for earlier subscribers from October 30. It was 20x.",
   "fit": "Heavy Codex use",
   "src": "winbuzzer"
  },
  {
   "vendor": "OpenAI",
   "product": "ChatGPT Pro, $500 tier",
   "price_month": 500,
   "usage": "25x Plus, as reported by Windows Report, plus Ultrafast versions of OpenAI's top models.",
   "fit": "The heaviest OpenAI users",
   "src": "windowsreport"
  },
  {
   "vendor": "Google",
   "product": "Google AI Ultra",
   "price_month": 199.99,
   "prices": [
    99.99,
    199.99
   ],
   "price_label": "$99.99 or $199.99",
   "usage": "5x or 20x the usage of AI Pro. Resets every five hours, up to a weekly limit.",
   "fit": "Gemini, Jules and Antigravity",
   "src": "google-ultra"
  },
  {
   "vendor": "xAI",
   "product": "X Subscription Ultra",
   "price_month": 200,
   "usage": "50x the $8 Plus tier, in one weekly pool shared by Grok and the Cursor agent.",
   "fit": "Grok and Cursor users",
   "src": "xai"
  },
  {
   "vendor": "Perplexity",
   "product": "Perplexity Max",
   "price_month": 200,
   "price_label": "$200, or $2,000 a year",
   "usage": "Models from OpenAI, Anthropic and others. The highest limits on its browser agent.",
   "fit": "Research and browsing agents",
   "src": "perplexity-max"
  },
  {
   "vendor": "Suprmind",
   "product": "Suprmind Frontier",
   "price_month": 95,
   "usage": "GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and Perplexity in one thread, each reading the others. Debate, Red Team and decision briefs.",
   "fit": "Decisions checked by five models",
   "src": "supr-pricing"
  },
  {
   "vendor": "Suprmind",
   "product": "Suprmind Power",
   "price_month": 195,
   "usage": "Everything in Frontier, the most usage of any self-serve Suprmind plan, and your own API keys.",
   "fit": "Heavy multi-model work",
   "src": "supr-pricing"
  }
 ],
 "timeline": [
  {
   "date": "2025-04-09",
   "type": "price",
   "title": "Claude Max launches",
   "text": "Anthropic adds Max at $100 a month for 5x Pro's rate limits and $200 for 20x.",
   "src": "tc-launch"
  },
  {
   "date": "2025-07-28",
   "type": "limits",
   "title": "Weekly limits announced",
   "text": "Anthropic says weekly limits start August 28 and will affect less than 5% of subscribers. Its emails estimate 140 to 280 hours of Sonnet 4 and 15 to 35 of Opus 4 a week on Max 5x, and 240 to 480 and 24 to 40 on Max 20x.",
   "src": "tc-weekly"
  },
  {
   "date": "2025-08-28",
   "type": "limits",
   "title": "Weekly limits take effect",
   "text": "Pro and Max now have a weekly limit across all models on top of the five-hour session limit.",
   "src": "tc-weekly"
  },
  {
   "date": "2025-11-24",
   "type": "models",
   "title": "Opus 4.5 removes Opus-only caps",
   "text": "With Opus 4.5, Anthropic removes Opus-specific caps and raises overall usage limits for Max and Team Premium.",
   "src": "opus45"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-03-28",
   "type": "limits",
   "title": "Peak-hour limits reported",
   "text": "The AI Economy reports that limits run down faster at weekday peak hours.",
   "src": "aieconomy"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-04-04",
   "type": "legal",
   "title": "Third-party agents cut off",
   "text": "Anthropic cuts subscriber logins off from OpenClaw, a popular open-source agent. Its Claude Code legal page bars third-party developers from routing their users' requests through consumer plan logins.",
   "src": "tnw-openclaw"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-04-21",
   "type": "price",
   "title": "Claude Code briefly dropped from Pro",
   "text": "Anthropic's pricing page and docs remove Claude Code from Pro in a test on about 2% of new signups, then revert the pages the same day. Claude Code stays in Pro.",
   "src": "zitron"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-05-06",
   "type": "limits",
   "title": "Claude Code five-hour limits doubled",
   "text": "Doubled on Pro, Max, Team and seat-based Enterprise, and the peak-hours reduction for Claude Code ends on Pro and Max. The same post announces a compute deal for SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center.",
   "src": "spacex"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-05-13",
   "type": "limits",
   "title": "Claude Code weekly limits up 50%",
   "text": "A promotion raises Claude Code's weekly limits by 50%, first through July 13 and in the end through September 13. Five-hour limits are not affected.",
   "src": "x-promo"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-06-12",
   "type": "models",
   "title": "Fable 5 access suspended",
   "text": "Anthropic suspends access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after a U.S. government export control directive citing national security. Other Claude models are not affected.",
   "src": "fable-access"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-07-01",
   "type": "models",
   "title": "Fable 5 access restored",
   "text": "The export controls are lifted on June 30, and Fable 5 returns on July 1 in Claude, Claude Code and on the Claude Platform.",
   "src": "fable-redeploy"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-06-05",
   "type": "limits",
   "title": "Cowork five-hour limits doubled",
   "text": "A promotion doubles Claude Cowork's five-hour limit on Pro, Max and Team through July 5. Chat, Claude Code and weekly limits do not change.",
   "src": "help-cowork-promo"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-06-14",
   "type": "legal",
   "title": "Kahn v. Anthropic filed",
   "text": "A proposed class action in the Northern District of California alleges Max delivers far less than the advertised 5x and 20x.",
   "src": "complaint"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-07",
   "type": "legal",
   "title": "Smith v. Anthropic related to Kahn",
   "text": "The court finds a second suit, Smith v. Anthropic (No. 4:26-cv-07789), related to Kahn. On August 19, Anthropic moves to dismiss, with a hearing set for November 6.",
   "src": "related-order"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-07-20",
   "type": "models",
   "title": "Fable capped at 50% of the weekly limit",
   "text": "After a launch promotion ends on July 19, Max plans can spend up to half the weekly limit on Fable models. Pro needs usage credits for Fable.",
   "src": "help-fable"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-29",
   "type": "limits",
   "title": "Weekly limit change announced",
   "text": "Anthropic says Claude Code weekly limits will settle 25% above the pre-promotion level from September 14, which it calls a 17% reduction from the promotion.",
   "src": "x-17pct"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-01",
   "type": "models",
   "title": "Fable 5.1 released",
   "text": "Max can use it within the 50% Fable cap. Mythos 5.1 stays limited to trusted access programs.",
   "src": "fable51"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-04",
   "type": "legal",
   "title": "Cases consolidated",
   "text": "The court approves a stipulation consolidating the Max cases. A consolidated complaint follows on September 8, and Anthropic files a new motion to dismiss on September 22.",
   "src": "consolidation"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-14",
   "type": "limits",
   "title": "Claude Code weekly promotion ends",
   "text": "Weekly limits in Claude Code are now 25% higher than they were before the promotion.",
   "src": "help-promo"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-22",
   "type": "limits",
   "title": "Opus 5.5 raises five-hour limits",
   "text": "Opus 5.5 launches with higher five-hour limits on Pro, Max, Team and seat-based Enterprise plans, 20% higher in Claude Code. Subscribers also get a one-time limit reset to use whenever they choose.",
   "src": "x-opus55"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-23",
   "type": "price",
   "title": "One-time cloud session credit",
   "text": "Existing subscribers get a one-time credit to try cloud sessions: $100 on Pro and $250 on Max.",
   "src": "x-cloud"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-07",
   "type": "price",
   "title": "API credits added to Max",
   "text": "Max 5x gets $100 and Max 20x $200 of Claude API credits a month. Team seats get $20 or $100, pooled up to $500.",
   "src": "haiku55"
  }
 ],
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  "eyebrow": "Live pricing card",
  "name": "Claude Max",
  "by": "by Anthropic · individual plans only",
  "range": "$100-$200",
  "range_meta": "per month · monthly billing only",
  "spectrum": [
   {
    "name": "Pro",
    "price": "$20",
    "max": false
   },
   {
    "name": "Max 5x",
    "price": "$100",
    "max": true
   },
   {
    "name": "Max 20x",
    "price": "$200",
    "max": true
   }
  ],
  "legend": "outlined dot = cheaper plan for comparison · filled dot = a Max plan",
  "oneliner": "The 5x and 20x apply to each five-hour session. Per week, Max 20x got about 1.7x the usage of Max 5x in Anthropic's own July 2025 estimates.",
  "default_tab": "tiers",
  "tabs": [
   {
    "k": "tiers",
    "label": "Max tiers",
    "rows": [
     {
      "name": "Pro",
      "note": "The base usage Max multiplies. Claude Code included. $17 a month billed yearly",
      "price": "$20"
     },
     {
      "name": "Max 5x",
      "note": "5x Pro per session, about 3.5x per week, $100 of API credits a month",
      "price": "$100"
     },
     {
      "name": "Max 20x",
      "note": "20x Pro per session, about 6x per week, $200 of API credits a month",
      "price": "$200"
     }
    ],
    "note": "Weekly multiples are ratios of Anthropic's July 2025 estimates. In the iPhone app, Max costs $124.99 and $249.99.",
    "anchor": {
     "href": "#section-2",
     "label": "Max 5x vs Max 20x, in full"
    }
   },
   {
    "k": "team",
    "label": "Max vs Team",
    "rows": [
     {
      "name": "Team Standard",
      "note": "2 to 150 seats, $20 of API credits a seat",
      "price": "$25 a seat"
     },
     {
      "name": "Team Premium",
      "note": "5x a Standard seat, $100 of API credits a seat",
      "price": "$125 a seat"
     },
     {
      "name": "Enterprise",
      "note": "20-seat minimum, plus usage by model and task",
      "price": "$20 a seat"
     }
    ],
    "note": "Billed yearly, Team seats cost $20 and $100. Team API credits are pooled, up to $500 a month, and Team plans start at two seats.",
    "anchor": {
     "href": "#section-1",
     "label": "Every Claude plan, in full"
    }
   },
   {
    "k": "worth",
    "label": "Is it worth it",
    "rows": [
     {
      "name": "Opus 5.5",
      "note": "Cache reads $0.20 per 1M",
      "price": "$4 / $20 per 1M"
     },
     {
      "name": "Sonnet 5.5",
      "note": "Cache reads $0.10 per 1M",
      "price": "$2 / $10 per 1M"
     },
     {
      "name": "Fable 5.1",
      "note": "On Max: up to 50% of the weekly limit",
      "price": "$10 / $50 per 1M"
     },
     {
      "name": "Haiku 5.5",
      "note": "Prompts up to 100K tokens",
      "price": "$0.10 / $0.50 per 1M"
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    "note": "API list prices, input and output. Max pays off once your Claude use would cost more than $100 a month at these rates. Published heavy months of Claude Code came to $1,200 to $1,600.",
    "anchor": {
     "href": "#section-5",
     "label": "Run the Max vs API calculator"
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  "foot": "Both limits, the new API credits and a Max vs API calculator are further down this page."
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   "q": "How much does Claude Max cost?",
   "a": "Max 5x costs $100 a month and Max 20x costs $200 a month, plus tax where it applies. Both are billed monthly only. In the iPhone app, the App Store lists them at $124.99 and $249.99, so buying on the web is cheaper."
  },
  {
   "q": "Is there a yearly Claude Max plan or a discount?",
   "a": "No. Max is sold monthly only, and Anthropic says it doesn't offer standard discounted pricing on Pro or Max, though it occasionally runs limited-time promotions. Pro is the only individual plan with yearly billing: $17 a month, paid as $200 up front. Nonprofits can buy Team seats at $8 a user a month, and Anthropic's open-source program covers six months of Max 20x for maintainers it accepts."
  },
  {
   "q": "What is the difference between Claude Max 5x and Max 20x?",
   "a": "Per five-hour session, Max 5x gives five times Pro's usage and Max 20x gives twenty times. Both have a weekly limit on top that grows much less. In Anthropic's July 2025 estimates, Max 20x got about 1.7 times the weekly Sonnet hours of Max 5x and 1.1 to 1.6 times its Opus hours. The models and features are the same. Max 20x includes $200 of API credits a month against $100 on Max 5x."
  },
  {
   "q": "Does Claude Max 20x give four times the weekly usage of Max 5x?",
   "a": "No. The 4x applies to each five-hour session. Per week, Anthropic's own July 2025 figures put Max 20x at 1.1 to 1.7 times Max 5x, and a test by Botfarm in early 2026 measured about 2.1 times. If you run into the weekly limit rather than the session limit, Max 20x helps less than its price suggests."
  },
  {
   "q": "Do Claude Max plans include API credits?",
   "a": "Yes, since October 7, 2026. Max 5x includes $100 and Max 20x includes $200 of Claude API credits each month. They cover the Claude API, Managed Agents, the Agent SDK and the playground, but not interactive Claude Code sessions or extra usage in the Claude apps. Unused credits expire at the end of each billing cycle, and new subscribers can claim them after 7 days."
  },
  {
   "q": "Do Claude chat and Claude Code share the same Max limits?",
   "a": "Yes. Anthropic says Claude Code shares the same usage limits as the rest of your plan, so work in the terminal and your chats draw from one pool. One difference: most of the limit increases Anthropic announced in 2026 applied only to Claude Code."
  },
  {
   "q": "What happens when I hit my Claude Max limit?",
   "a": "You wait for the five-hour window or the weekly limit to reset, or you keep working on usage credits. Usage credits are billed at standard API rates, and prepaid bundles cut that price by up to 30%: a $1,000 bundle costs $700. Settings, Usage shows your current usage and your next reset time."
  },
  {
   "q": "Can I use Claude Fable 5.1 or Mythos on Max?",
   "a": "Fable, yes. Max plans can spend up to 50% of their weekly limit on Fable models at no extra cost, and that use counts toward the weekly limit. On Pro, Fable runs only on usage credits. Mythos 5.1 is not part of Pro or Max. Anthropic offers it through trusted access programs."
  },
  {
   "q": "Is there a Claude Max 50x or a $500 Claude plan?",
   "a": "No. Max 20x at $200 a month is the largest individual Claude plan. The only $500 figure on Anthropic's pricing page is the cap on a Team's pooled API credits. OpenAI does sell a $500 ChatGPT Pro tier."
  },
  {
   "q": "Is Claude Max cheaper than the API?",
   "a": "For heavy use, by a wide margin. Anthropic says Claude Code averages about $150 to $250 per developer per month across enterprise deployments, and published reports of a heavy month on Max run from about $1,200 to $1,600 at API prices. If your use would cost less than $100 a month at API rates, the API or Pro is cheaper."
  },
  {
   "q": "Why does Claude Max cost more on iPhone?",
   "a": "Prices in the iPhone app are set through Apple's App Store, which lists Max 5x at $124.99 and Max 20x at $249.99 a month. On the web they cost $100 and $200. Plans bought through the app still get the monthly API credits, but only Apple can refund them."
  },
  {
   "q": "Can I share a Claude Max account or buy a cheap one?",
   "a": "Not within Anthropic's terms. The Consumer Terms say you may not share your login or make your account available to anyone else, and you may not resell the services. Shared and resold Max accounts break both rules, can be closed without notice, and pass your prompts through someone else's account."
  },
  {
   "q": "Can I get a refund for Claude Max?",
   "a": "Usually not. Anthropic treats payments as non-refundable, and you should cancel at least 24 hours before your renewal date to avoid the next charge. Buyers in the EEA and the UK get a prorated refund within 14 days of purchase. If you subscribed in the iPhone app, only Apple can issue a refund."
  },
  {
   "q": "Is one Max 20x better than two Max 5x?",
   "a": "It depends on how you hit limits and who uses the seats. Two Max 5x seats cost the same $200 and, by Anthropic's July 2025 estimates, held more combined weekly hours. One Max 20x gives four times as much per five-hour session as either 5x seat. Two seats for two people is ordinary. One person running two accounts to get around limits risks both accounts."
  },
  {
   "q": "What is the Claude Max lawsuit about?",
   "a": "Kahn v. Anthropic PBC, filed June 14, 2026 in the Northern District of California, alleges that Max delivers far less than its multipliers suggest: about 3.5 times Pro on Max 5x, six to eight times Pro on Max 20x, and only 1.1 to 1.6 times Max 5x on Max 20x. A related suit, Smith v. Anthropic, was consolidated with it in September, and a consolidated complaint followed on September 8. Anthropic argues that the 5x and 20x apply per session and that the weekly limit is a separate limit. It has moved to dismiss, and the hearing is set for November 6, 2026. These are allegations. No court has ruled on them."
  },
  {
   "q": "Claude Max or ChatGPT Pro: which is better value?",
   "a": "They cost the same and are built differently. ChatGPT Pro's $100 and $200 tiers have no five-hour limit, and OpenAI sells usage as a multiple of Plus: 5x at $100, 10x at $200 since OpenAI cut that tier from 20x this fall, and a reported 25x at $500. Claude Max multiplies Pro per five-hour session and adds a weekly limit. In October 2026, SemiAnalysis found Anthropic's subscriptions gave about five times the API-equivalent value of OpenAI's for mid-tier models, with similar limits on the top models. For coding, the agent you prefer, Claude Code or Codex, usually decides."
  },
  {
   "q": "Does Claude Max give you a better model than Pro?",
   "a": "Mostly no. Pro and Max run the same Claude models. Max adds usage, priority at busy times, higher output limits and early access to features. The exception is Fable: Max can spend up to half its weekly limit on Fable models, while Pro pays for Fable with usage credits."
  },
  {
   "q": "How do I check my Claude Max usage?",
   "a": "Open Settings, Usage. It shows your current session, your weekly limit and the time of your next weekly reset. For Claude Code, the community tool ccusage reads your local logs and prices them at API rates, which is the number to compare with the plan price."
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   "id": "decoder-avasare",
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   "id": "pillitteri-8k",
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