Claude Pricing: What Free, Pro, Max, Ultra, Team and the API Cost

Claude is free to use on its Free plan. The paid plans cost $20 a month for Pro ($17 a month if you pay $200 for the year up front), $100 a month for Max and $200 a month for Ultra, according to Anthropic's pricing page. Opus and Claude Code start on Pro, while Free gets Sonnet and Haiku.

Max gives you 5x Pro's usage and Ultra gives you 10x Pro's weekly usage. For companies, Team seats cost $25 a month ($20 billed yearly), or $125 ($100 billed yearly) for a Premium seat with 5x the usage. On the API, where developers pay per token, rates run from $0.10 per million input tokens on Haiku 5.5 to $8 on Fable 5.2.

Last checked November 10, 2026: every plan price, usage multiple and API rate on this page, against Anthropic's pricing page, its API pricing docs and its Help Center.

Every Claude plan and what it costs

Claude has four plans for individuals (Free, Pro, Max and Ultra) and two for companies (Team and Enterprise). Prices don't include tax, and every plan has usage limits that depend on the model you pick, how long your chats run and how big your files are.

Prices and plans are from claude.com/pricing, checked November 10, 2026. "API credits" are a monthly allowance for building on the Claude Platform, Anthropic's developer service, and they expire at the end of each billing cycle.

The feature list changes often, so Claude's latest features and updates are tracked on a separate page.

Is Claude free?

Yes. The Free plan costs $0 and gives you Sonnet and Haiku, web search, file creation, code execution, memory, Artifacts and Claude Design, Slides and Docs, with usage limited every 5 hours and every week.

Free leaves out Opus, Fable, Claude Code, Research and Claude in Chrome, and it allows up to five Projects. Pro gives you at least 5x more usage per 5-hour session than Free, according to Anthropic's pricing FAQ. Our guide to everything the free Claude plan includes goes through it feature by feature.

Claude Pro vs Max vs Ultra

Pro ($20) is the plan for everyday work, Max ($100) gives you 5x Pro's usage, and Ultra ($200) gives you 10x Pro's weekly usage with no 5-hour limit for verified accounts. Anthropic's pricing page calls Max "For all-day work" and Ultra "For your longest tasks".

Anthropic gives no message or hour counts for any plan. Limits are set as multiples of Pro, measured over a rolling 5-hour window and a weekly window. Your chats in the app and your work in Claude Code draw from the same pool, so a long coding session uses up the allowance you'd otherwise spend in chat. We've written up how Claude's usage limits work and when they tend to run out.

Fable, Anthropic's top model, is the biggest difference between the three plans:

• Pro: Fable runs on usage credits, which you buy separately.
• Max and Ultra: Fable is included for up to half your weekly limit.
• Past half on Max or Ultra: you can keep going on usage credits or switch to another model.

For a limited time, Pro includes Fable too. Pro plans get every Fable model inside the plan's weekly limit, up to 50% of it, from November 9 through November 16, 2026 at 11:59 pm Pacific, per Anthropic's Fable 5.2 launch offers. Pro subscribers whose paid billing was in place before November 9, 2026 at 10:00 am PT also get one Fable limit reset, which expires November 16 at 11:59 pm PT. After November 16, Fable on Pro goes back to usage credits. Free has no Fable at all.

Max and Ultra also come with monthly API credits ($100 on Max, $200 on Ultra) and are billed monthly only. Pro is the only individual plan with a yearly price.

How much does Claude Code cost?

Claude Code costs nothing extra: it's included in Pro ($20 a month), Max ($100), Ultra ($200) and every Team and Enterprise seat. The Free plan doesn't include it.

Claude is the chat app you use on the web, desktop and phone. Claude Code is Anthropic's coding tool, which works in your computer's terminal. On a subscription, the two share one usage limit. Anthropic's pricing FAQ says that for heavy coding sessions you can also switch Claude Code to pay-as-you-go API credits through a Console account, which bills at the API rates below.

Pat runs his own agents on his Claude subscription. In his video building an app that runs all his AI agents in one place, he said the setup is enough to "start getting agents running completely for free using your existing subscriptions." If you're choosing a coding tool, we compared Cursor vs Claude Code, and what each really costs.

What does each Claude model cost on the API?

On the API, Haiku 5.5 is the cheapest at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens, and Fable 5.2 is the most expensive at $8 and $40. Tokens are the small chunks of text a model reads (input) and writes (output). These rates come from Anthropic's API pricing docs.

Rates are from Anthropic's API pricing docs, checked November 10, 2026. The Batch API, which runs requests in the background instead of answering right away, takes 50% off both input and output.

Fable 5.2 costs twice Opus 5.5's rate per token. In Pat's Fable 5.2 review, both models built the same three projects in Claude Code: a narrated history film with an interactive 3D Central Park, a rebuild of Shopify's Editions website, and a flying Tesla Roadster you can drive in 3D. At API rates, Fable 5.2's three builds came to $998.12 and Opus 5.5's to $250.66. Pat ranked Fable 5.2 first on all three, said "I don't think it's a sizable jump over Opus 5.5," and recommended using it "as an orchestrator" that manages Opus agents.

An earlier test shows what one big job costs. In Pat's Gemini 4 Argon review, Opus 5.5 built a photoreal 3D cold brew bottle you can spin, open and pour, using 77.3 million input tokens and 330,000 output tokens over 114 minutes. At API rates that came to $29.95, against $17.96 for Fable 5.1 on the same job.

Across all four builds in that review, Opus 5.5 came to $189.04 and Fable 5.1 to $203.08. Pat ran those builds on subscriptions; the dollar figures are what the same tokens would cost on the API. The full breakdown is in what Opus 5.5 and Fable 5.1 cost on the same four builds.

The cheapest ways to pay for Claude

The cheapest way to pay for Claude is the Free plan, and the cheapest paid option is Pro on the yearly plan: $200 up front, which works out to $17 a month against $20 billed monthly. Claude Pro has no coupon code, and the yearly plan is Anthropic's official discount, as we found when we looked into the real ways to pay less for Claude Pro.

• Teams: a Standard Team seat billed yearly is $20 a month, for teams of 2 to 150.
• Developers: the Batch API halves the token price for work that doesn't need an instant answer.
• Light API use: Haiku 5.5 is the cheapest model, at $0.10 per million input tokens.
• Big companies: Anthropic offers volume and committed-spend discounts on Enterprise and API pricing through its sales team, and doesn't publish the rates.

For the rivals, we keep a list of what ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok charge, plan by plan.

Claude Team and Enterprise pricing

Claude Team costs $25 a seat per month, or $20 billed yearly, for a Standard seat, and $125, or $100 billed yearly, for a Premium seat with 5x a Standard seat's usage. Team is for 2 to 150 seats and you can mix the two seat types.

Team adds central billing, single sign-on, enterprise search across your organization, Claude Code and Claude Cowork, and up to $500 a month in API credits shared across the team. Anthropic doesn't train its models on Team content by default.

Enterprise costs $20 per seat per month, billed yearly, with a 20-seat minimum, and all usage is billed on top at API rates, so the bill scales with the models and jobs your team runs. It adds role-based access, audit logs, custom data retention and a HIPAA-ready option. Anthropic sells Enterprise self-serve or through its sales team.

Can I cancel my Claude subscription anytime?

Yes. You can cancel Pro, Max or Ultra at any time, and the plan stays active until the end of your billing period, after which the account moves to the Free plan. Cancel at least 24 hours before your next billing date to avoid the next charge, per Anthropic's cancellation guide.

• Web or desktop: go to Settings > Billing and click Cancel.
• iPhone or Android app: tap your initials, then Billing > Manage subscription, or cancel through Apple or Google Play.

Cancelling doesn't refund usage credits you've bought, and the monthly API credits on Max, Ultra and Team can't be refunded either: they expire at the end of each cycle. Anthropic's pricing FAQ says payments are generally non-refundable except where its terms or local law say otherwise.

Questions people ask about Claude pricing

Who owns Claude?

Anthropic makes and owns Claude.

Is Claude Opus free?

No. Opus starts on Pro at $20 a month. The Free plan has Sonnet and Haiku.

How much is Claude Fable?

Fable is included up to half your weekly limit on Max ($100) and Ultra ($200). On Pro it runs on usage credits, except during the launch week that ends November 16, 2026. On the API, Fable 5.2 costs $8 per million input tokens and $40 per million output tokens.

How much does Claude Sonnet cost?

Sonnet comes with every plan, including Free. On the API, Sonnet 5.5 costs $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens.

Can I pay for Max or Ultra yearly?

No. Both are billed monthly. Pro and Team are the plans with a yearly price.

What happens when I hit my usage limit?

You can wait for the limit to reset, move to a bigger plan, or, on a paid plan, turn on usage credits and keep working at standard API rates. You can check where you stand in Settings > Usage.

Does Claude in Chrome cost extra?

No. Claude in Chrome comes with Pro, Max, Ultra, Team and Enterprise. It isn't on the Free plan.

Do Claude's prices include tax?

No. The prices on Anthropic's page don't include applicable tax.

Can I switch plans partway through a month?

Yes, in Settings > Billing > Manage subscription. Upgrades start right away and credit the unused time on your old plan. Downgrades start at the end of your billing period.

Sources

• Claude plans and pricing (Anthropic)
• Claude API pricing (Anthropic docs)
• Claude Fable 5.2 launch offers (Claude Help Center)
• Claude Fable models on your plan (Claude Help Center)
• Cancel your Pro, Max, or Ultra subscription (Claude Help Center)
• Gemini 4 Argon: No-Hype Full Review & Testing (Pat Simmons), the build costs at 13:42
• Claude Fable 5 Just Built the Ultimate Agent Harness (Pat Simmons), the subscriptions quote at 19:10