Anthropic (Claude): The Max plan help article no longer lists Max 5x and Max 20x tiers; it lists one Max plan at $100 per month with five times the Pro plan's usage every five hours and every week, and refers to a separate Ultra plan.
Old "The Max plan is available in two tiers to match your usage needs: Max 5x : $100 per month Max 20x : $200 per month"; Max 20x "includes 20 times the Pro plan's per-session usage allowance."
New "The Max plan is available for $100 per month." "The Max plan includes five times the Pro plan's usage every five hours and every week." Ultra (claude.com/pricing): "$200 Per month", "No 5-hour limit" for verified accounts, "10x Pro usage every week". What happens to existing Max 20x subscribers: not stated. Effective date: not stated.
Why it matters: If you are on or choosing a Claude Max / Ultra plans plan, this changes what the plan includes or how it is billed. The source does not state a separate effective date.
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| Product | Claude Max / Ultra plans |
|---|---|
| Category | plan |
| Announced / detected | 2026-10-30 |
| Effective | not stated in source |
| Before | "The Max plan is available in two tiers to match your usage needs: Max 5x : $100 per month Max 20x : $200 per month"; Max 20x "includes 20 times the Pro plan's per-session usage allowance." |
| After | "The Max plan is available for $100 per month." "The Max plan includes five times the Pro plan's usage every five hours and every week." Ultra (claude.com/pricing): "$200 Per month", "No 5-hour limit" for verified accounts, "10x Pro usage every week". What happens to existing Max 20x subscribers: not stated. Effective date: not stated. |
| Official source | https://support.claude.com/en/articles/11049741-what-is-the-max-plan |
| Source quote | The Max plan is available for $100 per month. |
| Archive | Wayback capture |
| Snapshot hash | sha256:52c26ece8c95c5904c0cf4ee832f734ae6849326ff6091093266a1192ada4bbd |
| Status | verified |
All Anthropic (Claude) changes · Dispute or correct this entry
Previous changes from Anthropic (Claude)
- 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.
- 2026-10-07: Max and Team plans now include monthly API credits for the Claude Platform.
- 2026-10-07: Prompt cache read price on Claude Sonnet 5.5 lowered.
- 2026-09-24: Billing resumed for refusals before any output in the bio, frontier_llm and reasoning_extraction categories.
- 2026-09-22: Five-hour usage limits increased on Pro, Max, Team and seat-based Enterprise plans at the Claude Opus 5.5 launch; subscription users also got a saveable rate limit reset. Weekly limits are not mentioned in the announcement.
- 2026-08-10: Claude Sonnet 5 introductory price made standard; scheduled increase to $3/$15 on 2026-09-01 cancelled.
How Anthropic (Claude) limits and pricing work · Anthropic (Claude) changes, October 2026