Anthropic pricing & limits changelog
Product: Claude / Claude API
5 changes tracked since 2026-08-10; latest 2026-10-15.
Pricing
| Date | Company | Type | Change | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-07 | Anthropic | pricing | Prompt cache read price on Claude Sonnet 5.5 lowered. | verified |
| 2026-09-24 | Anthropic | pricing | Billing resumed for refusals before any output in the bio, frontier_llm and reasoning_extraction categories. | verified |
| 2026-08-10 | Anthropic | pricing | Claude Sonnet 5 introductory price made standard; scheduled increase to $3/$15 on 2026-09-01 cancelled. | verified |
Rate limits
| Date | Company | Type | Change | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-15 | Anthropic | rate-limit | Fast mode for Claude Opus 5.5 left research preview and received a default rate limit in Start, Build and Scale tiers. | verified |
Plans
| Date | Company | Type | Change | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-07 | Anthropic | plan | Max and Team plans now include monthly API credits for the Claude Platform. | verified |
FAQ
When did Anthropic last change its pricing?
2026-10-07: Prompt cache read price on Claude Sonnet 5.5 lowered. Source: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/release-notes/api (entry).
When did Anthropic last change its rate limits?
2026-10-15: Fast mode for Claude Opus 5.5 left research preview and received a default rate limit in Start, Build and Scale tiers. Source: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/release-notes/api (entry).
When did Anthropic last change its plans?
2026-10-07: Max and Team plans now include monthly API credits for the Claude Platform. Source: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/release-notes/claude-apps (entry).
Sources we watch
- pricing: https://www.anthropic.com/pricing (monitored, last checked 2026-10-22)
- pricing: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/about-claude/pricing (monitored, last checked 2026-10-22)
- pricing: https://claude.com/pricing (monitored, last checked 2026-10-22)
- rate_limits: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/api/rate-limits (monitored, last checked 2026-10-22)
- changelog: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/release-notes/api (monitored, last checked 2026-10-22)
- changelog: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/release-notes/claude-apps (monitored, last checked 2026-10-22)