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Claude coding plans
Claude is Anthropic's subscription for Claude Code — usage-capped tiers that unlock the Claude model family, locked to Anthropic's own tools.
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Plans tracked
3
Models served
5
Cheapest plan
$20/mo
Last verified
14 Oct 2026
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Claude sells 3 plans from $20 to $200/mo — the cheapest entry is $20/mo. 5 models tracked, led by the Claude Fable 5.1 flagship. Plans are locked to the provider’s own tool — bring-your-own-key agents use the API separately.
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Plans
Claude plans, verified 14 Oct 2026
| Provider / planProvider and subscription tier. Badges and plan notes appear below. | PriceStandard monthly price in USD, before first-month promotions. | Top modelsFlagship models included in the plan. The list is approximate; '+N more' opens the full catalog. | Coding toolCoding tool included with the plan. 'only' means locked to the vendor's own tools — the supported set is listed next to the badge; '+others' means it also works elsewhere. | SubscribeOpen provider pricing. Referral links may support TokenPlans at no extra cost. | ||
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| Proi — Yearly: $200 billed up frontClaude Fable 5 / Fable 5.1 are usage-credits-only on Pro (billed at API rates on top of the plan) — Fable is included usage on Max 5x / Max 20x at 50% of the weekly limit; Anthropic’s Usage Policy (effective 2026-11-12) prohibits reselling, proxying or otherwise providing access to Claude through unauthorized means, including “services that route requests through consumer subscriptions or misrepresent the product or client being used” (anthropic.com/legal/aup, read 2026-10-21)≥5× Free · 5h rolling window + weekly cap | $20.00 | Claude Fable 5.1Claude Fable 5Claude Sonnet 5+1 more ↗ | Claude Code ↗only | ≥5× Free · 5h rolling window + weekly cap | 06 Oct | Subscribe↗ |
2026-10-21 · r/ZaiGLM: the $20 Claude tier wins a Z.ai Lite switcher on usage-per-work — "Use Opus 5.5 for orchestration and sonnet 5 agents for the work. That way you'll get way more usage." / "Claude got 9/10 and Codex got 10/10 correct." source ↗ | ||||||
| Max 5xClaude Fable 5 / Fable 5.1 are included on Max 5x but draw only 50% of the weekly limit (claude.com/pricing “Models and usage” matrix, read 2026-10-06); the plan also grants $100/month in Claude Platform API credits for building on the API — a separate budget from the plan’s Claude Code usage (anthropic.com/pricing “Monthly API credits”, read 2026-10-14); Anthropic’s Usage Policy (effective 2026-11-12) prohibits reselling, proxying or otherwise providing access to Claude through unauthorized means, including “services that route requests through consumer subscriptions or misrepresent the product or client being used” (anthropic.com/legal/aup, read 2026-10-21)5× Pro · Claude Fable 5 / Fable 5.1 capped at 50% of the weekly limit | $100.00 | Claude Fable 5.1Claude Fable 5Claude Opus 5.5+1 more ↗ | Claude Code ↗only | 5× Pro · Claude Fable 5 / Fable 5.1 capped at 50% of the weekly limit | 14 Oct | Subscribe↗ |
| Max 20xClaude Fable 5 / Fable 5.1 are included on Max 20x but draw only 50% of the weekly limit (claude.com/pricing “Models and usage” matrix, read 2026-10-06); the plan also grants $200/month in Claude Platform API credits for building on the API — a separate budget from the plan’s Claude Code usage (anthropic.com/pricing “Monthly API credits”, read 2026-10-14); Anthropic’s Usage Policy (effective 2026-11-12) prohibits reselling, proxying or otherwise providing access to Claude through unauthorized means, including “services that route requests through consumer subscriptions or misrepresent the product or client being used” (anthropic.com/legal/aup, read 2026-10-21)20× Pro · Claude Fable 5 / Fable 5.1 capped at 50% of the weekly limit | $200.00 | Claude Fable 5.1Claude Fable 5Claude Opus 5.5+1 more ↗ | Claude Code ↗only | 20× Pro · Claude Fable 5 / Fable 5.1 capped at 50% of the weekly limit | 14 Oct | Subscribe↗ |
2026-10-14 · r/ClaudeCode: the weekly pool reads as two 5-hour sessions, and the thread treats it as a limit reduction — "But it doesn't matter how much token I used by subagents or whatever the method is. The math is there, 2 times 5 hour session limit fills the weekly limit almost." / "Same issue here. It looks like the usage limits were reduced" source ↗ | ||||||
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Every model on Claude plans
Recent changes
What changed for Claude subscribers
7 events in the last 90 days — 2 worse, 2 better.
- Policy12 Nov 2026
Anthropic’s Usage Policy, effective Nov 12, 2026, adds a resale/proxy prohibition to its “Do Not Abuse Our Platform” list: “Resell, proxy, or otherwise provide access to Claude through unauthorized means, including services that route requests through consumer subscriptions or misrepresent the product or client being used.” The clause is new in this version — the policy in force before it (effective September 15, 2025) contained no resale, reseller-access or proxy wording at all, only a reference to “authorized resellers or passthrough access” in its scope paragraph. It bears on the consumer subscriptions tracked here (Pro, Max 5x, Max 20x), whose access Anthropic grants to the account holder. Anthropic states the rule and nothing more: the policy does not say what it means for a subscriber running their own subscription through a third-party client, and no vendor clarification is published, so no harness-level reading is recorded. No plan price, cap, roster or per-token rate moves.
Verified 2026-10-21 · source
- Ceiling07 Oct 2026
Anthropic added monthly Claude Platform API credits to the Max plans: the release notes carry “Claude Max and Team plans now include monthly API credits” under 2026-10-07, the pricing page marks a “Monthly API credits” comparison row New with $100/month on Max 5x and $200/month on Max 20x (Free and Pro read No), and both Max cards state the figures in words. Each tracked record now names its own credit. It is a separate budget, not a wider Claude Code allowance: the provider’s API-credits doc scopes the credit to the Claude API, Claude Managed Agents, the Claude Agent SDK and playground, lists Claude Code and extra usage in the Claude apps as not covered, and states that it refreshes each billing cycle and expires at the end of it with no rollover — spendable on the Claude Platform only. The Team plan’s pooled credits (up to $500/month, $20 per Standard and $100 per Premium seat) are out of scope: the site catalogues individual plans only. Both records keep their Claude Code session-limit wording, and the credits are deliberately not modelled as an allowance in the calculator because they cannot be spent on Claude Code. Plan prices ($100 / $200), usage limits, model rosters and every per-token rate are unchanged.
Verified 2026-10-14 · source
- Policy06 Oct 2026
Site disclosure: the claude.com/pricing “Models and usage” matrix marks the Fable row “50% of weekly limits” on both Max 5x and Max 20x (Free “No”, Pro “Usage credits”), and the page’s FAQ says it in words — “Claude Fable models are included on Max plans at 50% of your weekly usage limit. Pro users can access Fable via usage credits.” The two Max records now carry that share on their rate-limit line, in their pricing notes and on the calculator’s rule lines for both Fable models, so the tier limit is no longer shown as if Fable could consume all of it. The budget maths is deliberately unchanged: the stored monthly budget is the plan price used as the comparability proxy for these consumer plans, so scaling it by half would multiply one approximation by another. No price, usage limit, model roster or per-token rate moved.
Verified 2026-10-06 · source
- Models06 Oct 2026
Site correction: Claude Pro advertised Claude Fable 5 and Claude Fable 5.1 as included usage. The provider’s own pricing page marks Fable “Usage credits” on Pro in its Models and usage matrix — Opus reads “Yes”, Sonnet and Haiku “Yes on every paid tier” — and the same page’s FAQ states it in words: “Claude Fable models are included on Max plans at 50% of your weekly usage limit. Pro users can access Fable via usage credits.” Usage credits bill at API rates on top of the subscription, so a Pro subscriber cannot spend the plan’s usage allowance on Fable, which is what the calculator had assumed. Those two rows now render n/a instead of a request estimate; both models stay listed on the plan because the provider still publishes them as reachable on Pro. Max 5x and Max 20x, plan prices, usage limits and every per-token rate are unchanged — the 50%-of-weekly-limit share Fable draws on Max is a separate question and is not modelled here.
Verified 2026-10-06 · source
- Models23 Sept 2026
Anthropic own subscription tiers now carry Claude Opus 5.5: the claude.com/pricing Models grid marks Opus as included on Pro, Max 5x and Max 20x, and the same page API tab publishes the model at $4 input / $20 output per 1M with $0.20 cached read and a $5 cache write. The tracked plan records had not yet been re-checked against the model, so this entry adds it to all three, priced with the Anthropic list rates the calculator already uses as the comparability proxy for these consumer plans.
Verified 2026-09-23 · source
Alternatives
Providers with overlapping model catalogs
Flagship rank · Claude Fable 5.1: #3 (Max config) on the Agent Arena agent leaderboard — 14.03% net improvement (board fetched 2026-10-19).
Common questions
Which Claude plan is cheapest?
Claude Pro at $20/mo. The cheapest plan is not always the best value — compare Req/$1 in the calculator.
How many plans does Claude offer?
3 tiers tracked, 3 currently active. Every tier is in the plans table below with its price, models and usage ceiling.
What are the Claude plans?
The Claude plans are Anthropic’s subscriptions for Claude Code and the Claude apps — Pro and the Max tiers — unlocking the Claude family of models at rising usage ceilings.
Which models do the Claude plans include?
The tracked tiers list Claude Fable 5, the Claude Opus 4.8 flagship tier, Claude Sonnet 5 and the Claude Haiku 4.5 family. Pro includes Fable 5 and Sonnet 5; the Max tiers add Opus 4.8.
Can I use the Claude plans with any agent (BYOK)?
No — the consumer plans are exclusive to Claude Code and the Claude apps. Third-party agents reach the same models through the Anthropic API, which bills separately.
How does Claude plan billing work?
Plans are usage-capped rather than token-budgeted: usage runs on a 5-hour rolling window plus weekly caps. Because there is no published token math, the calculator marks the plan’s Req/$1 as a proxy estimate.
Who are the Claude plans for?
Developers who work inside Claude Code and want the Claude model family first-party, with predictable monthly pricing and no CLI lock-in concerns because there is no BYOK on consumer plans.
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