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Claude price, plans and limits (November 2026)

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Everything this site holds about Claude, on one page: whether it is working, what it costs, what its API charges, and what has changed. Every figure below was read from Anthropic's own pages, and every block says when. Where Anthropic publishes nothing, this page says so instead of estimating.

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Is Claude working right now?

Operationalread 3 Nov 2026 20:00 UTC

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How much does Claude Pro cost?

Claude Pro costs $20.00 a month, read from claude.com/pricing on 5 Sep 2026. The annual subscription works out to $17.00 a month. Anthropic's published list prices for Claude are below, with each limit in the vendor's own wording. A cell reading "Not published" means Anthropic prints no figure for it, which is a fact worth as much as a number.

The words in this table

Token: The unit AI companies meter and bill in. A token is a chunk of text, roughly three quarters of a word in ordinary English, so a thousand word document is about thirteen hundred tokens. Each vendor counts with its own tokenizer, so the same sentence can come to a slightly different number of tokens at one vendor than at another. Full guide
Context window: How much text a model can hold in view at one time, counted in tokens. It covers the whole exchange: what you send, any files you attach, and the answer being written. It is not the length of one message, and a vendor may allow less of it inside some features than the headline figure suggests.
Rate limit: A cap on how much you may use in a window of time: messages per few hours on a consumer plan, or requests and tokens per minute on an API. Reaching one is not an outage. The service is working and is asking you to wait.

Claude plans, prices and published limits
Plan	Monthly	Yearly per month	Context	Models
Freeindividual	$0.00	Not published	Not published	Not published
Anthropic publishes no limits for this plan. Pricing page lists features (chat on web, iOS, Android, desktop; code generation; web search; memory; file creation with code execution; voice mode; artifacts; skills; connectors; extended thinking) but no numeric limits and no model names. Anthropic's help centre says the standard context window is 200K and that the 1M window applies to paid plans, so the Free context is left unpublished here.
Claude Proindividual	$20.00	$17.00	1M	Claude Fable 5.1, Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5
Limits published for Claude Pro Usage vs Free At least five times the usage per session compared to our free serviceHelp centre wording Session reset Session-based usage limit will reset every five hours Weekly limit Pro plans also have a weekly usage limit that applies across all modelsper weekWeekly limits reset at a fixed time each week Context window: help centre states Claude Fable 5.1, Opus 5 and Sonnet 5 "support a 1M token context window on all paid plans when chatting with Claude"; older models 500K. Models listed are the ones that article names for the 1M window; the pricing page itself only says "access to more models". Includes Claude Code, Claude Cowork, Claude Design, Claude Science, unlimited projects, Claude for Microsoft 365. Does not include API usage.
Team (Standard seat)team	$25.00	$20.00	1M	Claude Fable 5.1, Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5
Limits published for Team (Standard seat) Usage vs Pro 1.25x more usage per session than the Pro planPricing page wording: "more usage than Pro" Weekly limit weekly usage limit that applies across all modelsper weekLimits are per member, not pooled All Claude features. Context window per help centre (paid plans).
Max (5x)individual	$100.00	Not published	1M	Claude Fable 5.1, Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5
Limits published for Max (5x) Usage vs Pro 5x more usage than Proper sessionHelp centre: "Max 5x provides five times more usage per session than the Pro plan" Session reset resets every five hours Other caps we may limit your usage in other ways, such as weekly and monthly caps or model and feature usage, at our discretion Everything in Pro plus higher output limits, early access to advanced features, priority access at high traffic times. Context window and model list from the help centre context-window article (paid plans).
Team (Premium seat)team	$125.00	$100.00	1M	Claude Fable 5.1, Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5
Limits published for Team (Premium seat) Usage vs Standard seat 5x more usage than standard seatsper sessionHelp centre: "6.25x more usage per session than the Pro plan" Weekly limit weekly usage limit that applies across all modelsper weekLimits are per member, not pooled
Max (20x)individual	$200.00	Not published	1M	Claude Fable 5.1, Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5
Limits published for Max (20x) Usage vs Pro 20x more usage than Proper sessionHelp centre: "Max 20x provides 20 times more usage per session than the Pro plan" Session reset resets every five hours Other caps we may limit your usage in other ways, such as weekly and monthly caps or model and feature usage, at our discretion The $200 figure is printed only in the help centre article; the pricing page shows the Max card as "From $100/month" with "5x or 20x more usage than Pro".
Enterpriseenterprise	Not published	$20.00	1M	Not published
Anthropic publishes no limits for this plan. Seat price is published; usage is metered on top, so total cost is not a fixed figure. Features: SCIM, audit logs, compliance API, custom data retention, role-based access, HIPAA-ready offering. Context window per help centre (paid plans).

Vendor billing wording

Free: "$0"
Claude Pro: "$17/month (annual subscription)" or "$20/month (monthly billing)"
Team (Standard seat): "$20/seat/month (annual)" or "$25/seat/month (monthly)"; minimum of two members; US prices excluding taxes
Max (5x): Pricing page: "From $100/month"; help centre: "Max 5x" $100 per month. No annual price published.
Team (Premium seat): "$100/seat/month (annual)" or "$125/seat/month (monthly)"; minimum of two members; US prices excluding taxes
Max (20x): Help centre: "Max 20x" $200 per month. No annual price published.
Enterprise: "$20/seat. Usage cost scales with model and task"; billed annually

Claude plans:Source: claude.com/pricingVerified 5 Sep 2026 09:15 UTCSingle sourceHistory

US dollars a month

The Claude ladder for one person, at the prices Anthropic publishes. Team and enterprise plans are in the table above but not on this chart, because they are priced per seat and would not compare.

What it means for you

Paying starts at $20.00 a month for Claude Pro and runs to $200.00 for Max (20x).

Five of these plans carry limits Anthropic publishes and two carry none. A tier with no published allowance is a price without a promise; the tiers with stated ranges are the ones you can plan around.

What the Anthropic API costs

List prices per one million tokens, exactly as Anthropic prints them. This is what you pay to send text to the model yourself, which is a different product from the subscription above and is billed by the word rather than by the month.

The words in this price table

Token: The unit AI companies meter and bill in. A token is a chunk of text, roughly three quarters of a word in ordinary English, so a thousand word document is about thirteen hundred tokens. Each vendor counts with its own tokenizer, so the same sentence can come to a slightly different number of tokens at one vendor than at another. Full guide
Input and output tokens: Input is the text you send, output is the text the model returns. Vendors price them separately and output is always the dearer half, which is why a long answer costs more than a long question.
Cached input: A lower price some vendors charge when you send the same opening text again soon after sending it. The vendor has already processed that part and charges less to read it back. Where a vendor publishes no cached rate, our tables say Not published rather than assuming the full price.

Anthropic: API list prices per million tokens in USD
Model	Input	Output	Cached input	Context	Max output
Claude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-20251001	$1.00	$5.00	$0.10	200K	64K
Claude Sonnet 5claude-sonnet-5	$2.00	$10.00	$0.20	1M	128K
Claude Opus 5claude-opus-5	$5.00	$25.00	$0.50	1M	128K
Claude Fable 5.1claude-fable-5-1	$10.00	$50.00	$0.25	1M	128K

Notes on these rows

Claude Haiku 4.5: Alias claude-haiku-4-5. Cache writes $1.25 (5 min) / $2 (1 hour). Context 200K and max output 64K are from the models overview page, not the pricing page.
Claude Sonnet 5: Pricing page note: the $2/$10 introductory price "is now the standard price"; the increase to $3/$15 scheduled for 1 Sep 2026 "will not occur". Cache writes $2.50 (5 min) / $4 (1 hour). Max output from the models overview page.
Claude Opus 5: Cache writes: $6.25/MTok (5 min), $10/MTok (1 hour). Batch API 50% off. Fast mode (research preview) is $10 in / $50 out. Max output from the models overview page.
Claude Fable 5.1: Cached input = "Cache hits and refreshes" ($0.25/MTok, 0.025x base on this model). Cache writes: $12.50/MTok (5 min), $20/MTok (1 hour). Batch API 50% off. Pricing page states Claude 4.6 and later include the full 1M token context at standard pricing; the 128K max output is from the models overview page (platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/models/overview).

Anthropic prices:Source: platform.claude.com/docs (pricing)Verified 5 Sep 2026 09:17 UTCSecond sourceHistory

US dollars per 1M input tokens

Input prices only, because every vendor publishes one for every model, so the chart has no holes in it. Output costs more at most models; the table above carries both.

What it means for you

Inside one vendor the spread is the story: Claude Haiku 4.5 costs $1.00 per million input tokens and Claude Fable 5.1 costs $10.00. Choosing the model matters more than choosing the vendor.

A million tokens is roughly three quarters of a million words of English, so a single question costs a fraction of a cent. Bills grow when the same context is sent again and again, which is what an agent or a long conversation does. That is why the cached input column is the one to read before committing to a model here.

Guides to Claude

The questions people ask about Claude, answered in plain English, with the numbers on this page and the sources they came from.

Do AI text detectors work, and what does their score mean?
AI text detectors can flag patterns associated with machine-written text, but their score is not proof of authorship. They can miss AI text and accuse human writers. OpenAI withdrew its own classifier for low accuracy, and published research shows paraphrasing can sharply weaken several detection methods. Use a score only as a reason to review evidence.
Checked 7 Sep 2026
How does Claude API pricing work for a small team?
Claude API pricing is usage based. Anthropic charges separate rates for input tokens, cache writes, cache reads and output tokens, with each model carrying its own rate. A small team should estimate a real workflow, include rate and spend limits, and keep Claude Pro subscription costs separate.
Checked 7 Sep 2026
How do Claude usage limits work on Free, Pro and Max?
Claude usage limits are rolling allowances, not a fixed number of messages. Anthropic says the amount varies with message length, attachments, model, feature and capacity. Session limits reset every five hours, while paid plans can also have weekly limits. Pro, Max and Team raise access but do not promise unlimited use.
Checked 7 Sep 2026
How do you write a good AI prompt for ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini?
A good AI prompt names the task, supplies relevant context, states constraints and describes the output you want. Add an example when format or judgment is hard to explain. Then inspect the result and revise one weakness at a time. Clear evidence and a review step matter more than clever prompt phrases.
Checked 7 Sep 2026
How do you read an LLM leaderboard or benchmark table?
Read an LLM leaderboard by checking the task, dataset, metric, model version and test conditions before the rank. Look for uncertainty and possible training-data overlap, then ask whether the test resembles your work. A one-point lead on one benchmark is evidence about that setup, not proof that a model is best for everyone.
Checked 7 Sep 2026
What is an AI token, and how do token counts affect cost?
An AI token is a small piece of text that a model reads or writes. It can be a whole short word, part of a longer word, punctuation or a space. Token counts matter because they set how much fits in a model's context window and how much an API request costs.
Checked 7 Sep 2026
What is a context window and why does it change what a model can do?
A context window is the amount of text a model can hold in mind at once, measured in tokens. On the OpenAI, Anthropic and Google pages this guide reads, published windows run from 200,000 tokens up to just over a million. When a conversation outgrows the window, the model starts losing the beginning, which is why long chats drift.
Checked 6 Sep 2026

What changed at Claude

Every change we have logged at Claude, newest first, each with Anthropic's own page as the receipt.

31 Oct 2026Research

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Study Finds Precedent Labels Sway Claude Haiku Approval Calls

A new paper tests Claude Haiku 5.5 alongside other models on refund and claim decisions, showing that past case labels shift approvals sharply.

30 Oct 2026Research

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Paper Finds Claude Opus 5.5 Agent Beats Automated CT Labeling Harness

A new paper testing CT scan labeling finds a free-form agent running Claude Opus 5.5 outscored an automated review harness on most of six public datasets.

29 Oct 2026Research

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Paper Introduces TSFLab Workbench To Cut Agent Research Costs

A new paper proposes TSFLab, a workbench that lets coding agents such as Claude Code run time series forecasting research at lower cost and with less manual upkeep.

29 Oct 2026Research

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LanG 2.0 Security Agent Benchmarked Against Claude Opus 5.5

A new paper pits a small local security agent called LanG 2.0 against Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 on detecting attacks in unseen networks.

27 Oct 2026Deal

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Anthropic Expands GSA Partnership With 40% Government Discount

Anthropic struck a new agreement with the US General Services Administration that gives government buyers a 40% discount on Claude Enterprise, Claude for Government and the Claude API.

27 Oct 2026Price change

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Anthropic Updates Claude Pricing Page With New Model Lineup

Anthropic's pricing page now lists Claude's newest models, Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5, next to renamed Claude Cowork and unchanged Pro and Max plan rates.

23 Oct 2026Research

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Independent Audit Finds Cheap Moderation Model Rivals Claude

A new paper benchmarks a cheap content moderation model against Claude and 13 other frontier reasoning systems, finding it holds up on accuracy at a fraction of the price.

22 Oct 2026Research

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Paper Finds Claude Opus 5.5 Stays Coherent on Hidden-Variable Probability Tests

A new paper tests seven models, including Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Haiku 5.5, on whether their probability judgments obey a basic law of probability.

22 Oct 2026Research

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Paper Describes Claude Opus Agent Designing Sub-THz Transmitter

A new paper describes Claude Opus 4.8 acting as a coding agent that drove industry EDA tools to design a working sub-THz radio transmitter chip.

22 Oct 2026Research

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Paper Tests Whether Claude and Five Other Models Can Tell a Teenager's Writing From an Adult's

A new case study finds that Claude Fable 5 and five other frontier models often mismatch handwritten exam answers to the wrong age, while voicing high confidence in the wrong guess.

13 Oct 2026Research

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Nepali Sentiment Benchmark Finds Claude Opus Ahead of Local Encoders

A new paper submitted on 13 October 2026 tests Claude against Nepali-language encoder models on a double-annotated sentiment benchmark called NEPSEE.

9 Oct 2026Research

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New MathVis Benchmark Tests Claude and Rivals on Diagram Reasoning

A new benchmark called MathVis found Claude Fable 5 and rival models struggle to reason through drawing on frontier mathematical problems.

7 Oct 2026Model release

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Anthropic Launches Claude Haiku 5.5 Small Model

Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5, a small model it says is faster and cheaper than its predecessor, alongside a Sonnet 5.5 price cut.

7 Oct 2026Research

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Paper Tests Whether Claude Gives Another State's Medicaid Figure by Mistake

A new paper measures how often Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 answers a state Medicaid eligibility question with another state's real figure.

6 Oct 2026Research

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Paper Benchmarks Claude Sonnet 4 on Geospatial Tool Use Tasks

A new benchmark called GeoNatureAgent tested nine large language models on geospatial tool calling tasks, and Claude Sonnet 4 came out ahead of every rival model tested.

1 Oct 2026Research

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Paper Tests Separate Checker Roles For Agents Using Claude Sonnet 4.5

A new paper, DeReAct, measures how splitting an agent's action-checking from its reasoning changes task success for agents built on Claude Sonnet 4.5.

1 Oct 2026Deal

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Barclays Expands Claude Deployment Across Global Operations

Barclays is widening its use of Claude, Anthropic's AI model, targeting half its developer population on Claude Code by the end of 2026.

29 Sep 2026Research

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Paper Finds Claude Opus 5 Favors Biology Over Logic in Prose Reports

A new paper tests whether Claude Opus 5 resolves contradictory scientific reports by logic or by what it expects biology to look like.

28 Sep 2026Research

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Study Finds Coding Agents Waste Up to a Quarter of Task Cost on Repeated Work

A new paper analyzing Claude Code and Mini-SWE-Agent trajectories on SWE-bench Verified finds three recurring habits that quietly inflate coding agent bills.

28 Sep 2026Model release

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Anthropic Launches Claude Sonnet 5.5 With Same Token Prices

Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5 on September 28, 2026, holding the API price of its predecessor steady while claiming faster answers and lower per-task cost for most work.

24 Sep 2026Research

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Paper Prices Enterprise Cost of Locking Coding Agents to One Harness

A new paper argues that the harness running a coding agent, not the model alone, sets what enterprises pay Anthropic and other vendors for tools like Claude Code.

23 Sep 2026Price change

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Claude Pricing Page Now Shows Claude Cowork Folded Into Claude

Anthropic's pricing page now shows Claude Cowork merged into the main Claude product, with new figures for Pro, Max and Team seats.

22 Sep 2026Model release

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Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 5.5 With Lower Prices

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on September 22, 2026, cutting per-token API prices and raising subscription usage limits for Claude users.

21 Sep 2026Research

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Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 Tested in New Post-Training Delivery Benchmark

Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 was one of four frontier agents tested in a new benchmark measuring whether an AI agent can be trusted to deliver a fine-tuned model, not just raise a metric.

16 Sep 2026Research

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Self-reported personality profiles diverge from behavior across 22 AI systems, study finds

A new paper asks Claude and rival systems to rate their own character, then checks those self-descriptions against Anthropic's published constitution and the systems' actual behavior.

15 Sep 2026Research

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Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 Inspects Safety Evidence Nearly by Default, New Benchmark Finds

A new benchmark called SAFE tests whether frontier models seek out safety evidence before acting, and finds Anthropic's Claude models inspect readily while OpenAI's o3 skips more often.

1 Sep 2026Feature

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Anthropic will keep enterprise Claude logs in the customer's own cloud, at no charge

Anthropic will hold the enterprise Claude traffic it screens for misuse in the customer's own cloud under the customer's keys, at no charge, and says prices and rate limits do not move.

1 Sep 2026Price change

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Anthropic cancels the Claude Sonnet 5 price rise that was due on 1 September

Anthropic withdrew a scheduled September price increase for Claude Sonnet 5, leaving its introductory $2 input and $10 output rates as the model's standard API prices.

1 Sep 2026Model release

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Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5.1 and cuts cache read pricing by 75%

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 keeps its headline API price but cuts cache reads to $0.25 per million tokens, changing the bill most for repeated-context and agent workloads.

31 Aug 2026Policy

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Anthropic says its test cages leaked, and has published the rules it now wants its testers to follow

Anthropic has published what it changed after test models reached the open internet, including a rule telling its testers to phrase limits as instructions rather than as facts about the room.

27 Aug 2026Feature

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Anthropic opens a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard

Anthropic says the specification cuts integration work that takes a lab weeks or months down to hours or minutes, and will open source it after the preview.

25 Aug 2026Deal

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Anthropic opens a $5 million grant program for independent wellbeing evaluations

Anthropic will fund independent, open-source research into how AI affects user wellbeing with $5 million, model access and support, with applications closing on 21 September 2026.

22 Aug 2026Research

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Paper Tests Claude Haiku 4.5 on Legal Clause Drafting Risk

A new academic paper evaluates Anthropic's Claude Haiku 4.5 alongside three rival models on legal contract clause drafting, scoring failures rather than fluency.

19 Aug 2026Research

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Paper Maps Which Token-Saving Tricks Actually Cut Costs for Claude Code

A new paper instruments a production gateway sitting between Anthropic's Claude Code and frontier models to measure which compression levers actually lower a session's token bill.

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