Claude pricing for individuals and teams
Compare Anthropic's Claude plans and find the right tier
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Great At
- Long-document analysis with a 1M-token context on current models
- Coding, with Claude Code included in paid individual plans
- Nuanced reasoning and summarization
- Team and Enterprise seats with admin controls
Cost watchouts
- Usage limits vary by plan and reset window
- Max plans cost $100 or $200 per month
- Enterprise usage charges are separate from the annual seat fee
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| Plan | Price | What You Get | Best For |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Limited Claude access for personal use with web, mobile, and desktop access. | People trying Claude at no cost |
| Pro | $20/mo or $200/year ($17/mo equivalent)Annual option: $200/year · $17/month equivalent | $20 monthly or $200 billed upfront annually (publisher-displayed $17 monthly equivalent). Includes Claude Code and additional usage; limits apply. | Frequent individual Claude users |
| Max 5x | $100/mo | Five times the Pro usage allowance with higher output limits and priority access. Billed monthly. | Heavy individual users |
| Max 20x | $200/mo | Twenty times the Pro usage allowance with the highest individual limits and priority access. Billed monthly. | Power users with sustained high usage |
| Standard seat | $25/seat/mo ($20/seat/mo annual)Annual option: $20/month equivalent | Standard Team access for $25 per member monthly or $20 per member per month on an annual plan paid upfront. Team plans require at least two seats and support up to 150 seats. | Teams using Claude for everyday work |
| Premium seat | $125/seat/mo ($100/seat/mo annual)Annual option: $100/month equivalent | Premium Team access for $125 per member monthly or $100 per member per month on an annual plan paid upfront, with Claude Code and 6.25x the Pro plan's per-session usage allowance. Weekly limits also apply. Team plans require at least two seats. | Teams with sustained Claude and Claude Code usage |
| Enterprise | $240/user/year access base ($20/month equivalent) + usageAnnual commitment: $20/month equivalent | $240 per user per year for access ($20 monthly equivalent × 12), plus usage at standard API rates billed separately. This derived annual access base excludes metered usage; the complete usage-inclusive invoice is unknown. Self-serve Enterprise requires 20 seats; sales-assisted Enterprise requires 50. | Organizations needing enterprise controls and usage-based capacity |
Free plan and entry cost
Claude offers a public Free plan with limited usage. Anthropic does not publish a fixed message allowance, so no exact daily cap is claimed.
How to read the total cost
- Model token ratesPer 1M tokens: Claude Fable 5.1 and limited-availability Claude Mythos 5.1 cost $10 input/$50 output; Claude Fable 5 and limited-availability Claude Mythos 5 also cost $10/$50; Claude Opus 5, 4.8, 4.7, 4.6, and 4.5 cost $5/$25; Claude Sonnet 5.5 costs $2/$10; Claude Sonnet 4.6 and 4.5 cost $3/$15; Claude Haiku 4.5 costs $1/$5.
- Prompt cachingClaude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 use $12.50 five-minute cache writes, $20 one-hour cache writes, and $0.25 cache reads per 1M tokens. Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 retain $12.50 five-minute writes, $20 one-hour writes, and $1 cache reads. Five-minute cache writes/cache reads for the remaining groups are $6.25/$0.50, $2.50/$0.10, $3.75/$0.30, and $1.25/$0.10; their one-hour cache writes are $10, $4, $6, and $2.
- Fast modeFast mode for Claude Opus 5.5 costs $8/MTok input and $40/MTok output and left research preview on October 15, 2026. Fast mode for Claude Opus 5 and Claude Opus 4.8 remains a first-party research preview at $10/MTok input and $50/MTok output. It is unavailable with the Batch API.
- Discounts and routingBatch processing discounts input and output by 50%. Claude 4.6 and later models and Claude Mythos Preview include the full 1M-token context window at standard pricing. US-only inference for Claude 4.6 and later uses a 1.1x multiplier.
- Tools and agentsWeb search is $10 per 1,000 searches. Code execution is free with current web search or web fetch; otherwise it includes 1,550 free hours per organization per month, then costs $0.05 per hour per container with a five-minute minimum. Web fetch has no additional charge beyond standard token costs. Managed Agents add $0.08 per running session-hour plus model-token and applicable web-search charges.
Price History
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Pricing Calculator
$20 monthly or $200 billed upfront annually (publisher-displayed $17 monthly equivalent). Includes Claude Code and additional usage; limits apply.
Extra monthly cost
Add a total for the whole stack, not a per-seat price. Use your own estimate or quote; this cost is not verified.
Projected from monthly payments, not an annual invoice.
Annual and quarterly billing show a monthly average. Extra costs and custom quotes are your estimate.
How this estimate works
Extra costs are your total estimate for the whole stack. Per-unit cost divides that total across the selected quantity; dedicated member and add-on pricing is not modelled.
Subscription vs API
Claude subscriptions and Anthropic API usage are separate. Claude Opus 5.5 API pricing is $4 input and $20 output per million tokens, with $5 five-minute cache writes, $8 one-hour cache writes, and $0.20 cache reads. Eligible Max and Team subscribers can claim a separate direct API credit allowance; subscription usage limits are unchanged.
| Model | Input | Cache read | Cache write | Output |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Opus 5.5 | $4 | $0.2 | $5 | $20 |
| Claude Fable 5.1 and limited-availability Claude Mythos 5.1 | $10 | $0.25 | $12.5 | $50 |
| Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 (limited availability) | $10 | $1 | $12.5 | $50 |
| Claude Opus 5, 4.8, 4.7, 4.6, and 4.5 | $5 | $0.5 | $6.25 | $25 |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | $2 | $0.1 | $2.5 | $10 |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 and 4.5 | $3 | $0.3 | $3.75 | $15 |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | $1 | $0.1 | $1.25 | $5 |
| Claude Haiku 5.5 (<=100000 input tokens) | $0.1 | $0.01 | $0.125 | $0.5 |
| Claude Haiku 5.5 (>100000 input tokens) | $0.5 | $0.05 | $0.625 | $2.5 |
Long context, processing modes, temporary promotions, storage and tool usage can change the total; see the qualifications below and official sources.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Public free plan and transparent paid plan prices
- Individual, Team, and Enterprise options
- Claude Code access is included in paid individual plans and Premium Team seats
Cons
- Usage limits vary by plan and reset window
- Enterprise usage charges are separate from the annual seat fee
Alternatives to Claude
Pricing qualifications checked October 13, 2026
Included direct API credits
Max 5x: $100; Max 20x: $200. Team Standard: $20/seat; Premium: $100/seat, pooled cap $500. USD credits, separate from subscription usage.
Eligible active plan in good standing for seven days; link one Console organization. Max subscriber or Team Primary Owner/Owner and Console Owner/Admin/Billing roles required. Reset each billing cycle; annual plans reset monthly. No rollover. Free, Pro and Enterprise, interactive Claude Code, extra Claude/Cowork usage, Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex AI and Microsoft Foundry are excluded. Credits are spent before purchased balance; requests stop if no balance remains.
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