Claude Pricing: Pro, Max, Team and API Costs Explained
Claude costs $0 on Free, $20/month on Pro, from $100/month on Max (5x Pro; $200 for 20x), and Team is priced per seat on Anthropic's page; the API bills per token at $5 input / $25 output per 1M for Opus 5, $2 / $10 for Sonnet 5 and $1 / $5 for Haiku 4.5. Free and Pro default to Sonnet 5, Max adds capacity, Team adds administration and collaboration, and Claude Code is included in Pro and Max (API billing otherwise). The old Claude 3.5-era pricing pages no longer apply.
Bottom line
Free is enough for occasional use. Pro at $20 is the clear default for regular individual users. Max is only rational when Pro usage limits interrupt valuable work often enough to justify a 5x–10x price jump. Team is an organizational purchase, not a cheap way to get more personal Claude. Developers and agent builders should route routine work to Sonnet 5 ($2/$10) or Haiku 4.5 ($1/$5) and reserve Opus 5 ($5/$25) for tasks where the stronger model changes the accepted outcome; prompt caching (cache reads roughly 10% of list input) and the Batch API (roughly 50% off) cut long-loop costs further.
Current plans and prices
Claude Free
$0/monthLimited Claude access for occasional use; Sonnet 5 is available across plans and is the default for Free and Pro.
Best for
Occasional chat, testing Claude, and light document work.
Not for
Sustained daily work where usage limits regularly interrupt tasks.
Claude Pro
$20/month (US)Standard individual paid plan with higher usage than Free; regional pricing and taxes vary.
Best for
Regular individual writing, research, coding and analysis.
Not for
Users who rarely hit Free limits, or users who need substantially more than Pro capacity.
Claude Max 5x
$100/monthFive times Pro usage capacity for frequent individual users.
Best for
People who use Claude heavily across multiple workstreams and repeatedly exhaust Pro.
Not for
Anyone upgrading speculatively without evidence that Pro limits are costing time.
Claude Max 20x
$200/monthTwenty times Pro capacity for daily, very high-usage collaboration with Claude.
Best for
Extreme individual usage where Claude is a primary production tool.
Not for
Typical professionals; this tier needs a clear business case.
Claude Team
Per seat; see Anthropic's pricing pageTeam plan with central billing, administration and collaboration features. Anthropic sets the per-seat rate and minimum seat count on its pricing page.
Best for
Organizations that need shared administration, collaboration features and managed access.
Not for
Solo buyers or small groups below the minimum seat requirement.
Claude API — Opus 5
$5 input / $25 output per 1M tokensFlagship API model for complex coding and long-running agentic workloads; 1M-token context.
Best for
High-value tasks where stronger capability materially improves accepted outcomes.
Not for
Routine high-volume work that Sonnet 5 or Haiku 4.5 can complete reliably at lower cost.
Claude API — Sonnet 5
$2 input / $10 output per 1M tokensThe default API workhorse for coding, agents and professional work; 1M-token context. Batch requests run at roughly 50% of list and cached input reads at roughly 10%.
Best for
Developers building coding, agentic and professional-work applications at scale.
Not for
Simple high-volume classification or extraction that Haiku 4.5 handles at half the price.
Claude API — Haiku 4.5
$1 input / $5 output per 1M tokensCheapest current Claude API model; 200K-token context.
Best for
High-volume extraction, classification, routing and sub-agent steps inside larger loops.
Not for
Tasks that need the deepest reasoning; escalate to Sonnet 5 or Opus 5 when acceptance rates drop.
Official sources
Frequently asked questions
How much is Claude Pro?
As of September 11, 2026 Anthropic lists Claude Pro at $20/month in the US, with localized pricing and taxes varying by region. Free is $0 and Max starts at $100.
What is the difference between Claude Pro and Max?
Max is a capacity upgrade for frequent individual users: $100/month for 5x Pro capacity or $200/month for 20x.
What does Claude Team cost?
Team is priced per seat with a minimum seat count; Anthropic publishes the current per-seat rate on its pricing page. Buy it for administration and collaboration, not as a cheaper way to get more personal usage than Pro ($20) or Max (from $100).
How much does Sonnet 5 cost via API?
Sonnet 5 is $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens on the standard API as of September 11, 2026. Batch requests run at roughly half that and cached input reads at roughly 10% of the input price.
How much do Opus 5 and Haiku 4.5 cost via API?
Opus 5 is $5 input / $25 output per million tokens and Haiku 4.5 is $1 / $5. Sonnet 5 sits between them at $2 / $10, so a typical agent stack routes most steps to Sonnet 5 or Haiku 4.5 and escalates to Opus 5 only when needed.
Is Claude Code included in Pro or Max?
Yes. Claude Code runs inside the Pro ($20) and Max (from $100) usage limits; outside those plans it bills at API rates for the model you pick, so Sonnet 5 at $2 / $10 is the usual default.
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Verified against official vendor pages and our pricing catalogue on September 11, 2026. Regional pricing, taxes, promotions and product entitlements can change. Check the linked vendor page before purchasing.