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Heroes of Might and Magic 3Claude Ultra
Claude Ultra is Anthropic's $200-a-month plan, the former Max 20x, with no five-hour limit for verified accounts, ten times Claude Pro's weekly usage, Fable included and $200 a month in API credits.
Claude Ultra costs $200 a month and offers "No 5-hour limit" for verified accounts and "10x Pro usage every week", as of Nov 6, 2026, with Fable included up to half the weekly limit and $200 a month in API credits. It is the old Max 20x plan under a new name: "The Max 20x plan is now called the Ultra plan", and existing Max 20x subscribers moved to it automatically with no price change. Anthropic's tagline is "For your longest tasks".
Quick facts
| Price | $200 a month, web price, before tax (as of Nov 6, 2026) |
| Billing | Monthly only |
| Five-hour limit | None for verified accounts; a temporary one until verified |
| Weekly limit | 10x Pro, across all models; a separate Fable limit |
| Fable | Included, up to 50% of the weekly limit |
| API credits | $200 a month for the Claude Platform |
| Introduced | About Oct 30, 2026, replacing Max 20x |
Sources: Plans & pricing, Anthropic, read Nov 6, 2026; What is the Ultra plan?, Claude Help Center, read Nov 6, 2026; Anthropic editor's note, read Nov 6, 2026.
When did Ultra start?
Anthropic has not published a launch post for Ultra that could be found on Nov 6, 2026, and the help center's release notes have no entry for it. The clearest date is an editor's note on an Anthropic article: "References to Max in posts before October 30, 2026 include what are now the Max and Ultra plans". The Oct 7, 2026 release note on API credits still names only Max and Team (Release notes). One Anthropic article dated Aug 7, 2026 names Ultra in its title, which suggests that page was edited after the rename (Auto mode is now the default). So: about Oct 30, 2026, not confirmed by a launch announcement.
No five-hour limit, and what "verified" means
Every other paid plan has a session limit that resets five hours after your first message. Ultra drops it for verified accounts, so you can "work at your own pace within your weekly limit". Anthropic verifies Ultra accounts automatically, "using factors like your account and payment history", to prevent fraud and abuse. Until then an account has a temporary limit, removed automatically once verified; verifying a phone number at checkout is a separate step and does not remove it. To check, open Settings > Usage: if there is no "Current session" bar, the account is verified (What is the Ultra plan?).
The weekly limit still applies, along with a separate weekly limit for Fable. Ultra does not mean unlimited: Anthropic's general terms also reserve the right to adjust limits (How do usage and length limits work?). Past the weekly limit, Ultra can use usage credits at API rates. Claude Code's wrap-up allowance (finishing a step when the five-hour limit hits) does not apply to verified Ultra, since there is no five-hour limit to hit (Use Claude Code with your Pro, Max, or Ultra plan).
Ultra compared with the old Max 20x
The old tier was sold as 20 times Pro's usage at $200 (TechCrunch, Apr 9, 2025). Ultra is described as 10x Pro every week with no five-hour limit. Anthropic has not explained how the two multiples relate, and since it publishes no token or message counts behind either, it is not possible to say from Anthropic's pages whether a former Max 20x subscriber gets more or less in total. What is clear: the price is unchanged, the session cap is gone for verified accounts, and the API credits doubled from Max's $100 to $200.
The $200 in API credits
Ultra's monthly credits work like Max's: they pay for the Claude API, the Console playground, Managed Agents and the Claude Agent SDK when run with an API key from the linked Console organization, and not for interactive Claude Code or extra usage in the apps. They expire each billing cycle (Monthly API credits). At Claude Opus 5.5's price of $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens, $200 buys about 10 million output tokens.
Who needs Ultra
Ultra is for people whose work is stopped by the five-hour window rather than by the week: long Claude Code sessions, many parallel agents, or Cowork tasks that run for hours. For most heavy users Claude Max at half the price is enough, and many people never reach Pro's weekly limit. Teams buying for several people should compare Team Premium seats at $100 to $125 a seat. At the same $200 price, rivals sell ChatGPT Pro 200 and Google AI Ultra's 20x tier at $199.99, each with its own image, video and storage extras that Ultra lacks. See Claude Pro vs Max.
Learn more: ChatGPT Pro on chatgpt.vi.ki, Gemini on ai.vi.ki
What reviewers found
The creator reviews of Claude's plans found on Nov 6, 2026 all predate Ultra. In a Mar 29, 2026 review of the $200 tier Ultra replaced, Kian of The AI Productivity Coach noted that even at $200 there were still limits, "no truly unlimited" Claude plan, only the closest thing to one. Ultra keeps that true, with its weekly limit.
Frequently asked questions
How much is Claude Ultra? Claude Ultra is $200 a month, billed monthly, as of Nov 6, 2026; mobile store prices may differ.
Is Claude Ultra the same as Max 20x? Yes. Anthropic renamed Max 20x to Claude Ultra, moved existing subscribers automatically at the same $200 price, and changed the terms to no five-hour limit for verified accounts and 10x Pro's weekly usage.
Does Claude Ultra have unlimited usage? No. Claude Ultra has no five-hour limit for verified accounts, but it keeps a weekly limit across all models and a separate weekly Fable limit.
How do I know if my Claude Ultra account is verified? Open Settings > Usage in Claude. If there is no "Current session" bar, Anthropic has verified the Ultra account and the five-hour limit no longer applies.
Does Claude Ultra include Fable? Yes. Claude Ultra can use Fable models for up to half of its weekly usage limit at no extra cost.
Sources
- I Tested All Claude Plans So You Don't Have To, The AI Productivity Coach, Mar 29, 2026 (video)
- Plans & pricing, Anthropic, read Nov 6, 2026
- What is the Ultra plan?, Claude Help Center, read Nov 6, 2026
- How do usage and length limits work?, Claude Help Center, read Nov 6, 2026
- Use Claude Code with your Pro, Max, or Ultra plan, Claude Help Center, read Nov 6, 2026
- Monthly API credits for Max, Ultra, and Team plans, Claude Help Center, read Nov 6, 2026
- Release notes, Claude Help Center, read Nov 6, 2026
- Claude Cowork and chat come together for Enterprise, Anthropic, Oct 23, 2026
- Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code, Anthropic, Aug 7, 2026
- Anthropic rolls out a $200-per-month Claude subscription, TechCrunch, Maxwell Zeff, Apr 9, 2025
- About ChatGPT Pro tiers, OpenAI Help Center, read Nov 6, 2026
- Gemini subscriptions (US), Google, read Nov 6, 2026
Moments
I Tested All Claude Plans So You Don't Have To
The AI Productivity Coach
Related
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Claude Desktop AppThe Claude desktop app is a free download for macOS and Windows, with Linux in beta, that adds quick entry, desktop extensions, Cowork on your own files, computer use and Claude Code to the Claude chat.
- Claude for EducationClaude for Education is Anthropic's university-wide plan for students, faculty and staff, priced on request, with a learning mode that guides students with questions instead of answers; US K-12 teachers can get Claude free for a year.
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Claude Free PlanYes, Claude is free to use: the Free plan costs $0 and includes chat with Claude Sonnet and Haiku, web search, file creation, memory and connectors, with usage limited every five hours and every week.
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Claude Mobile AppsClaude's free mobile apps for iPhone, iPad and Android, listed as "Claude by Anthropic", offer chat, voice mode, dictation, camera and photo input, and links to phone apps such as Maps, Messages and Calendar.
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Claude Plans and PricingClaude has a Free plan and three individual paid plans, Pro at $20 a month, Max at $100 and Ultra at $200, plus Team seats from $20, Enterprise seats at $20 plus usage, and an Education plan priced on request (as of Nov 6, 2026).
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Claude ProClaude Pro is Anthropic's $20-a-month plan ($17 a month billed annually) that adds at least five times Free's usage, the Opus models, Claude Code, Research and unlimited projects.
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Claude Pro vs MaxClaude Pro ($20 a month) suits daily chat and light Claude Code use; Claude Max ($100) gives five times the usage, Fable in the plan and $100 in API credits; Claude Ultra ($200) removes the five-hour limit for verified accounts.
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Claude Team and EnterpriseClaude Team costs $20 or $100 a seat a month billed annually ($25 or $125 monthly) for 2 to 150 people; Claude Enterprise costs $20 a seat a month billed annually plus all usage at API rates, with a 20-seat minimum.
See also
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Claude APIThe Claude API is Anthropic's REST API at api.anthropic.com for building with Claude models: create an API key in the Claude Console at platform.claude.com, then send requests to the Messages API, paying per token.
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Claude Agent SDKThe Claude Agent SDK (formerly the Claude Code SDK) is Anthropic's Python and TypeScript library that runs Claude Code's agent loop, tools, hooks, subagents and MCP support inside your own program; install it with pip install claude-agent-sdk or npm install @anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk.
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Claude MaxClaude Max is Anthropic's $100-a-month plan with five times Claude Pro's usage every five hours and every week, Fable included up to half the weekly limit, $100 a month in API credits and priority access.