Pricing guides · Anthropic
Updated · By llmwise, AI-assisted.
Claude pricing: every plan and the API
Claude has three plans: Free, Pro at $20 a month ($17 billed yearly) and Max at $100 or $200. Anthropic publishes no message count on any, and Fable 5.1 costs extra on Pro. Through the API, a typical Claude Opus 5.5 message costs $0.0300 and a Fable 5.1 one $0.0750.
Every Claude plan and its price
Every Claude plan and its price in Anthropic's own words, checked September 28, 2026, before tax.
| Plan | Price | For | In Anthropic's words |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Free | Free | No count; limits reset every five hours | “$0: Free for everyone” (Claude pricing) |
| Claude Pro | $20 a month | No count; five-hour sessions and a weekly cap | “The Pro plan is available for $20 per month (US), with pricing in your local currency where supported.” (Claude Help Center: What is the Pro plan?) |
| Claude Max (Max 5x) | $100 a month | No count; 5x or 20x Pro's per-session usage, and a weekly cap | “Max 5x: $100 per month” (Claude Help Center: What is the Max plan?) |
| Claude Max (Max 20x) | $200 a month | No count; 5x or 20x Pro's per-session usage, and a weekly cap | “Max 20x: $200 per month” (Claude Help Center: What is the Max plan?) |
What does Claude's API cost per message?
Per million tokens in and out, from llmwise's catalog (Anthropic's list price), and a typical message: 4,000 tokens in, 700 out. Beside each, its count on llmwise Pro ($20).
| Model | API price per million tokens (in / out) | A typical message | On llmwise Pro | Least a message costs on llmwise Pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Fable 5.1 | $10.00 / $50.00 | $0.0750 | Up to 31 a month | $0.65 |
| Claude Opus 5.5 | $4.00 / $20.00 | $0.0300 | Up to 62 a month | $0.32 |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | $2.00 / $10.00 | $0.0150 | Up to 125 a month | $0.16 |
| Claude Sonnet 5 | $2.00 / $10.00 | $0.0150 | Up to 125 a month | $0.16 |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | $1.00 / $5.00 | $0.0075 | Up to 250 a month | $0.08 |
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | $0.10 / $0.50 | $0.0008 | 60 a day | A daily count |
llmwise's paid plans also cap AI cost each month for fair use (Plus $3.75, Pro $7.50, Max $20, Ultra $42, Studio $85). A whole month of typical messages costs less than that; very long messages and deep research cost more. Every limit, explained.
What does Anthropic do with your Claude chats?
From Anthropic's privacy pages as they read on September 28, 2026. For comparison, llmwise trains no models on what you send, and a chat stays until you delete it.
| Service | Used for training | Opting out | How long chats stay |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude | Only if you agree | Leave Model Improvement off in Privacy Settings, or use Incognito chats | Deleted chats go within 30 days; up to 5 years, de-identified, if you allow training |
“You choose to allow us to use your chats and coding sessions to improve Claude”
Quoted from Anthropic Privacy Center: Is my data used for model training?
“Your Incognito chats are not used to improve Claude, even if you have enabled Model Improvement in your Privacy Settings.”
Quoted from Anthropic Privacy Center: Is my data used for model training?
“Deleted from our back-end storage systems within 30 days”
Quoted from Anthropic Privacy Center: How long do you store my data?
“If you allow us to use your chats or coding sessions to improve Claude, we may retain your data in a de-identified format for up to 5 years in our model training pipelines.”
Quoted from Anthropic Privacy Center: How long do you store my data?
How did Anthropic's models score in our runs?
Anthropic's models in llmwise's catalog, each sent the same 50 prompts.
| Kind of work | Claude Fable 5.1 | Claude Opus 5.5 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Claude Sonnet 5 | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 5 of 5 | 5 of 5 | 5 of 5 | 5 of 5 | 3 of 5 | 5 of 5 |
| Writing | 3 of 5 | 4 of 5 | 4 of 5 | 4 of 5 | 4 of 5 | 3 of 5 |
| Summarization | 3 of 5 | 5 of 5 | 4 of 5 | 3 of 5 | 5 of 5 | 3 of 5 |
| Data analysis | 5 of 5 | 5 of 5 | 5 of 5 | 4 of 5 | 3 of 5 | 5 of 5 |
| Support replies | 4 of 5 | 5 of 5 | 4 of 5 | 5 of 5 | 3 of 5 | 4 of 5 |
| Altogether | 45 of 50 | 49 of 50 | 47 of 50 | 46 of 50 | 43 of 50 | 45 of 50 |
Not one miss among them on math, translation, SQL, answering from documents, and tool use. Passes out of 5 per kind of work, in our runs of September 27, 28, 29 and October 2, 7, 8, 9, 15, 2026. The prompts and replies.
What else Anthropic says about Claude's prices
“Save 50% with batch processing.”
Source: Claude pricing
Claude's plans, one by one
- Claude Free: what it includes, and its limits
No count; limits reset every five hours
- Claude Pro: price, limits and Fable access
No count; five-hour sessions and a weekly cap
- Claude Max 5x and 20x: price and limits
No count; 5x or 20x Pro's per-session usage, and a weekly cap
- Claude for students: is there a discount?
- ChatGPT Plus vs Claude Pro
- Claude Pro vs Claude Max
- Claude Free vs Claude Pro
- Claude Pro vs Google AI Pro
- ChatGPT Pro vs Claude Max
- Claude Pro vs SuperGrok
- Claude Pro vs Perplexity Pro
- Claude price in India: Pro and Max in US dollars, tax and UPI
Also from primary sources: Claude's App Store listing (Pro at $20.00 a month, and Max 5x at $124.99 and Max 20x at $249.99 when bought in the app). Read .
Claude pricing, asked and answered
How much is Claude a month?
Pro is $20 a month, or $17 a month billed yearly; Max is $100 (Max 5x) or $200 (Max 20x), monthly only (checked September 28, 2026). Prices exclude tax.
What does the Claude API cost?
Per million tokens in and out: Fable 5.1 $10.00 and $50.00, Opus 5.5 $4.00 and $20.00, Sonnet 5 $2.00 and $10.00. Anthropic's pricing page says batch processing saves 50%.
Which Claude plan includes Fable?
Not on Pro: since July 19, 2026, Pro pays for Fable separately. Max includes it up to half the weekly limit. On llmwise Pro ($20), up to 31 Fable 5.1 messages a month are in the plan.
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1, priced per message
On llmwise Pro ($20), up to 31 Claude Fable 5.1 messages a month: as little as $0.65 a message. No tokens to count.