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Anthropic has renamed its two Claude Max plans and dropped the five-hour usage limit on the more expensive one. It now calls the $100-a-month Max 5x plan Max, and the $200 Max 20x plan Ultra. Prices stay the same, the company said on X on Friday.
Verified Ultra accounts no longer have a limit that resets every five hours. Most existing subscribers received the change on Friday. Newer accounts keep a temporary limit until Anthropic verifies them, which it said helps prevent fraud and abuse. Those users will get an email when the limit is lifted. Weekly limits stay the same.
“If you’re a subscriber, there’s nothing you need to do.” — Claude, Anthropic’s official account, on X
What Each Plan Now Includes
Anthropic’s pricing page now lists Max as five times Pro usage, measured every five hours and every week. It comes with $100 a month in API credits.
Ultra is listed at ten times Pro usage every week, with no five-hour limit for verified accounts. It comes with $200 a month in API credits, up from $100 on Max. Both plans include Fable, Anthropic’s top model, for up to half of the weekly limit. In Europe, the two plans cost €90 and €180 a month respectively.
Earlier Changes to Claude’s Plans
The old Max 20x name pointed to 20 times Pro usage. The pricing page now lists ten times Pro usage per week for Ultra, though Anthropic’s announcement did not address the change directly.
A lawsuit filed in June claimed Anthropic oversold the usage on both Max plans. In May, Anthropic doubled five-hour limits for Claude Code, citing new computing capacity from SpaceX. In April, it blocked OpenClaw and other third-party agent tools from using Claude subscriptions. The latest renaming and limit changes continue a pattern of ongoing adjustments to how Anthropic structures and enforces its subscription tiers.
