Claude Pricing 2026: Pro, Max, Ultra and Team Plans Compared

In short: Claude pricing as of November 2026 is $0 a month for Free, $20 for Pro, $100 for Max and $200 for Ultra. On the Team plan, a Standard seat costs $25 a month and a Premium seat $125. Annual billing brings Pro down to $17 a month and Team seats to $20 and $100. Prices exclude tax, and Claude Code is included in every paid plan from Pro up.

These are the figures on Anthropic's Claude pricing page and in the Claude Help Center as of 1 November 2026. The Max 20x plan is now called Ultra: according to Anthropic's Ultra plan article, existing Max 20x subscribers move to Ultra automatically at the same price. We compared the Free, Pro, Max, Ultra and Team plans for teams that are thinking of buying Claude seats for their staff and that lean heavily on Claude Code or Cowork.

Sources: the Claude pricing page, What is the Max plan?, What is the Ultra plan?, What is the Team plan? and Monthly API credits for Max, Ultra, and Team plans.

Anthropic's pricing page presents Fable as its top model and offers it under a different rule on each plan. On Max and Ultra, Fable is included up to half of the weekly limit. On Pro it is billed through usage credits, and Free does not have it. On Team, Premium seats can use Fable up to half of the weekly limit.

The Max and Ultra prices apply to web subscriptions. According to the Ultra article, the mobile price can differ depending on your app platform, so check the amount in the app store if you subscribe there. The Enterprise plan is billed annually at $20 per seat a month plus usage charged at API prices.

Yes, Claude has a free plan. The Free plan costs $0 and anyone can use it. Chat, web search, file creation, code execution, memory and app connectors are all available on Free in the web, desktop and mobile apps. Usage, however, is capped by both a 5-hour limit and a weekly limit. Free includes the Sonnet and Haiku models but not Opus or Fable, and Claude Code is not part of Free either.

For more usage, Opus and Claude Code, you need a paid plan, and paid plans start with Pro at $20 a month. According to the FAQ on the pricing page, Pro gives at least 5 times Free's usage per 5-hour session.

Anthropic's pricing page has no discount for individual students. Student pricing comes through the Education plan, which universities buy as institutions. With it, a university gets Claude at discounted prices for its students, faculty and staff. Your university's IT department can tell you whether it has such a plan. A student who subscribes on their own pays the prices above.

The Claude API is a pay-as-you-go service, separate from the subscriptions, and it charges for input and output separately per million tokens. According to the API section of the pricing page, the current models cost the following:

Batch processing gets a 50% discount on these prices. With prompt caching, input read from the cache is much cheaper: on Sonnet 5.5, a cache read costs $0.10 per million tokens. The monthly API credits that come with Max, Ultra and Team also apply to this API usage.

Claude Code is not sold as a separate subscription. It is included in Pro, Max, Ultra, Team and Enterprise, and it is not available on Free. The cheapest way in is Pro at $20 a month, or $17 a month on annual billing. Claude Code shares your plan's usage limit with Claude's web, desktop and mobile apps. If the limit runs out during heavy coding sessions, you can pay as you go at API prices through a Console account.

According to the "What changed from Max 20x?" section of Anthropic's article on the Ultra plan, the Max 20x plan is now called Ultra. Existing Max 20x subscribers move to Ultra automatically at the same price. On the pricing page, the $100 plan is now listed simply as "Max", with 5 times Pro's usage.

Two things set Ultra apart from Max:

• Verified accounts have no 5-hour session limit. Only the weekly limit applies.
• Weekly usage is 10 times Pro's. On Max it is 5 times.

Anthropic verifies Ultra accounts itself, based on signals such as account and payment history. Until an account is verified, a temporary limit applies, and it lifts on its own once verification is done. Verifying your phone number at checkout does not remove it. You can see whether your account is verified under Settings > Usage: if there is no "Current session" bar on that screen, your account is verified.

Ultra still has a weekly limit, and it covers all models. According to the Ultra article, Fable has a separate weekly limit on top of that. Anthropic also says it may set other weekly or monthly limits to manage capacity and does not guarantee uninterrupted service.

Anthropic defines usage as a multiple of the Pro plan, not as a number of messages. How much work fits in a limit depends on the model, the length of the conversation and the size of the files. Claude's web and desktop apps and Claude Code share the same usage allowance.

Setting each plan's usage multiple against its price gives this table:

Anthropic publishes only a per-session multiple for Team, so the Team rows cannot be compared directly with weekly usage.

On monthly billing, every plan gives the same usage per $100. Three things separate the plans:

1. Which limit you hit. Max has both a 5-hour and a weekly limit. A verified Ultra account keeps only weekly limits: one for all models and one for Fable alone. A developer who runs long, heavy Claude Code sessions during the day is stopped more often by the 5-hour limit.
2. Annual billing. Max and Ultra are sold monthly only. Buying Pro or Team annually lowers the unit price.
3. Admin and data settings. These exist only on the Team and Enterprise plans.

All amounts are monthly and exclude tax.

The $260 of credits in the last row matches the example Anthropic gives in its help article. On Team, credits go into a single pool capped at $500 a month, so adding more than five Premium seats does not increase the credits.

No. The monthly API credits that come with Max, Ultra and Team are for the Claude Platform. They cover the Claude API, the Playground in the Console, Claude Managed Agents and the Claude Agent SDK. They do not cover Claude Code used interactively in the terminal, the IDE, the desktop app or the web. They also do not apply to extra usage in Claude, Claude Code or Cowork after you hit your limit, and they do not change your plan's usage limits.

Anthropic's article on monthly API credits sets out the other rules:

• To get the credits, you must have been on the plan for at least 7 days and link a Claude Console organization. You cannot change the linked organization yourself later.
• Unused credits do not roll over to the next month.
• These credits are spent first, then any credits you have bought.
• The Free, Pro and Enterprise plans do not include these credits.

For OpenAI's equivalent, see our ChatGPT Business API credits guide. If you plan to spend the credits on building your own agents with the Agent SDK, our post One agent or many? explains whether to start with a single agent or several.

When you hit the limit, you have three options: wait for the limit to reset, upgrade to a higher plan, or turn on usage credits. With usage credits on, work is not cut off, and further usage is billed at standard API prices. This option exists on Pro, Max, Ultra and Team. On Team, admins can set spend limits at the user and organization level.

Spending through usage credits is hard to predict in advance. If you turn them on for a team, set a monthly spend limit per person.

Anthropic opens its Max and Ultra articles by saying these plans are for individual users, and that organizations using Claude as a team should look at the Team and Enterprise plans. According to the comparison on the pricing page, Pro, Max and Ultra lack:

• SSO and domain verification
• Central billing and administration
• Spend controls at the user and organization level
• Usage analytics and organization-wide distribution of skills

The use of your data for model training is handled differently too. On individual plans, it is up to the user to turn it off ("Opt-out" on the pricing page). On Team and Enterprise, data is not used for training by default ("None by default").

That is why you should talk to legal and information security before buying individual plans on the company budget. Employees entering business data into personal accounts raises separate questions under data protection law (KVKK in Turkey) and under your contracts. Our sovereign AI guide covers where data is processed and who controls it. For teams that do not want business data to leave the company, open-weight models running on their own servers are another option, and our post on open-weight model licenses compares the license terms of those models.

On Team, each seat is assigned to one person. Accounts cannot be shared, and one person's remaining usage cannot be passed to someone else. The Team plan takes a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 150 seats, and Standard and Premium seats can be mixed on the same plan.

• Pro: enough for people who use Claude and Claude Code now and then during the day. Annual billing lowers the cost too.
• Max: a good fit for individual developers and freelancers who often hit Pro's limit but not the 5-hour limit.
• Ultra: for people who run long, uninterrupted Claude Code or Cowork sessions and need twice Max's weekly usage. The 5-hour limit only goes away once the account is verified.
• Team: the right choice if you are buying Claude for two or more people on the company budget. Central billing, SSO, spend controls and model training off by default exist only on Team and Enterprise. Give heavy users Premium seats and everyone else Standard seats.
• Enterprise: consider it if you have more than 150 users or need role-based access, SCIM, audit logs or custom data retention. According to the pricing page, Enterprise requires at least 20 seats and annual billing.

For developers who will use these tools in a team, our Agentic Coding for Software Engineering Teams course covers the day-to-day practice, and Enterprise AI Coding Governance, Policies and Standards helps you set the in-house rules for using them.

Anthropic's pricing page lists prices in dollars and states that the prices shown exclude taxes. According to the Team article, these prices apply to customers in the United States, and the currency and tax vary by region. It points to claude.ai/upgrade for the current local price. The Pro article also says the price is shown in local currency in supported regions.

The billing address of your payment method determines the tax. According to Anthropic's tax ID article, eligible addresses get a field at checkout where you can enter a tax or VAT ID.

Anthropic's pages give no lira price or VAT rate for Turkey. Before you buy, check the amount claude.ai/upgrade shows for your own billing address.

• An upgrade takes effect immediately, and the unused time is credited against the new plan.
• When you move from Max to Ultra, the difference is charged pro rata for the rest of the billing period. If you have already received your API credits, the difference in credits is added right away.
• When you move from annual Pro to Max or Ultra and the remaining balance is more than the new plan's price, the difference goes to your account as credit. This requires your billing address to stay the same.
• A downgrade takes effect at the end of the current billing period.
• On Team, seats added mid-period are charged pro rata right away. Removing someone from the plan does not give an immediate credit or refund, but the freed seat can be assigned to someone else. Lowering the total seat count takes effect at the next renewal.

Sources: the Claude pricing page and FAQ, What is the Max plan?, How is my Team plan bill calculated? and Purchase and manage seats on Team plans.

To fit Claude costs into a team budget, our AI FinOps: Token Economics, Budgeting and Unit Cost Management course shows how to plan and track that spend. To run Claude as a company assistant alongside ChatGPT Enterprise and Gemini, see Enterprise AI Assistants for Productivity (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude). Our enterprise AI training guide explains where to start when you build a training plan for your team.

Yes. The Free plan costs $0 and anyone can use it, but usage is capped by 5-hour and weekly limits. Free includes Sonnet and Haiku, but not Opus, Fable or Claude Code.

There is no discount for individual students. Students can get discounted access through the Education plan their university buys as an institution.

Claude Pro costs $20 a month on monthly billing. On annual billing it is $200 up front, an average of $17 a month. Prices exclude tax.

Max costs $100 a month and is sold on monthly billing only. It gives 5 times Pro's usage in both the 5-hour and the weekly limit, plus $100 of API credits a month.

Ultra is the new name of the former Max 20x plan and costs $200 a month. It gives 10 times Pro's weekly usage, has no 5-hour limit on verified accounts and includes $200 of API credits every month.

No. Ultra has a weekly limit that covers all models and a separate weekly limit for Fable. The only limit it removes is the 5-hour limit, and only on verified accounts.

A Standard seat costs $25 a month on monthly billing or $20 a month on annual billing, and a Premium seat costs $125 or $100 a month. The plan takes a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 150 seats. Prices exclude tax.

No. Claude Code is not sold separately: it is included in every paid plan from Pro up and is not available on Free. The cheapest way in is Pro at $20 a month.

Per million tokens, input and output cost $2 and $10 on Sonnet 5.5, $4 and $20 on Opus 5.5, and $10 and $50 on Fable 5.1. Haiku 5.5 costs $0.10 and $0.50 for prompts up to 100,000 tokens. Batch processing gets a 50% discount.

No. The credits apply to the Claude API, the Playground, Managed Agents and the Agent SDK. They do not cover interactive Claude Code use or extra usage after you hit your limit.

Anthropic shows prices in dollars excluding tax, and your billing address determines the tax. Anthropic's pages give no lira price or VAT rate for Turkey. Check the amount claude.ai/upgrade shows for your own address.

• Anthropic, Claude pricing page and API pricing
• Anthropic, Claude for Education
• Claude Help Center, What is the Ultra plan?
• Claude Help Center, What is the Max plan?
• Claude Help Center, What is the Pro plan?
• Claude Help Center, What is the Team plan?
• Claude Help Center, How is my Team plan bill calculated?
• Claude Help Center, Purchase and manage seats on Team plans
• Claude Help Center, Monthly API credits for Max, Ultra, and Team plans
• Claude Help Center, Manage usage credits for paid Claude plans
• Claude Help Center, How do usage and length limits work?
• Claude Help Center, Add or update your paid Claude account's tax or VAT ID

• This Week in AI: the 22-29 October 2026 briefing
• ChatGPT Business API credits guide
• ChatGPT usage limits and the December change
• What is sovereign AI?
• Courses: Agentic Coding for Software Engineering Teams, Enterprise AI Coding Governance, Policies and Standards, AI FinOps, Enterprise AI Assistants for Productivity (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude)