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By the toolist.ai editors. Read from Claude Code's pricing page, not hands-on tested by toolist.ai. Updated October 16, 2026.
Claude Code pricing
Claude Code's cheapest paid plan is Pro at $20 a month billed monthly, or $16.67 a month billed yearly. The free plan: No free plan for Claude Code: Claude's Free plan does not include it, and a guest pass from a Pro or Max subscriber gives someone new to paid Claude plans only a seven-day Pro trial that needs a card and turns into a paid plan unless cancelled.
Free plan: No free plan for Claude Code: Claude's Free plan does not include it, and a guest pass from a Pro or Max subscriber gives someone new to paid Claude plans only a seven-day Pro trial that needs a card and turns into a paid plan unless cancelled.
| Plan | Billed monthly | Billed yearly, per month | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pro | $20 | $16.67 | Claude Code in the terminal, IDE, desktop and web, sharing a five-hour session limit and a weekly limit with Claude chat; Anthropic aims it at brief bursts of coding on small projects; Opus, Sonnet and Haiku included, Fable only on usage credits; $200 billed yearly |
| Max 5x | $100 | not listed | 5 times Pro's usage per five-hour session plus a weekly limit, of which up to half can go on Fable; higher output limits and priority access at busy times; $100 a month of API credits for your own apps, not usable in Claude Code; monthly billing only |
| Max 20x | $200 | not listed | 20 times Pro's usage per five-hour session plus a weekly limit, of which up to half can go on Fable; $200 a month of API credits for your own apps, not usable in Claude Code; monthly billing only |
| Team, Standard seat | $25 | $20 | Per seat, for teams of 2 to 150: Claude Code with more usage than Pro, central billing and admin, SSO, no model training on your content by default; Fable on usage credits only; $20 a seat of pooled monthly API credits (capped at $500 a team), not usable in Claude Code |
| Team, Premium seat | $125 | $100 | Per seat: 5 times a Standard seat's usage, with up to half the weekly limit on Fable; $100 a seat of pooled monthly API credits (capped at $500 a team) |
| Enterprise | not listed | $20 | Per seat, billed yearly only, plus all usage billed at API rates with no per-seat usage limits; admin spend limits, SCIM, audit logs, custom data retention, a HIPAA-ready option and Code Review |
| Claude API (Console, pay as you go) | not listed | not listed | Per million tokens, input/output: Opus 5.5 $4/$20, Sonnet 5.5 $2/$10, Haiku 5.5 $0.10/$0.50 (prompts up to 100K tokens), Fable 5.1 $10/$50; Anthropic puts enterprise deployments at about $13 per developer per active day, or $150 to $250 a month |
| Cost per finished minute | Not measured by us, and the vendor does not publish an allowance we can divide by. |
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Prices last checked: 2026-10-16 on Claude Code's pricing page.
Price history
No price change since we first recorded these prices on October 13, 2026. We re-check them every week and list each change here.
To price your own month on Claude Code and the tools like it, use the AI cost calculator.
Before you pay
- Claude Code shares one usage pool with Claude chat: every paid plan has a five-hour session limit plus a weekly limit, Anthropic publishes no fixed numbers (Pro gives at least 5 times Free's per-session usage, Max 5 or 20 times Pro's), and it says it may add weekly, monthly, model or feature caps at its discretion.
- When you hit a limit you wait for the reset, upgrade, or turn on usage credits, which bill further use at API rates from a prepaid balance up to a monthly cap you set (or no cap). An ANTHROPIC_API_KEY set on your machine makes Claude Code bill the API instead of your plan.
- The $100 or $200 a month of API credits on Max (and Team's pooled credits) cannot be used for interactive Claude Code or for usage credits; they cover the Claude API, Managed Agents, the Agent SDK and claude -p runs with a key from the linked Console organization, and unused credits expire each billing cycle.
- Fable models are not in Pro's or Team Standard seats' limits (usage credits only), and Max or Premium seats can spend at most half the weekly limit on them.
- On Free, Pro and Max, Anthropic trains future models on your chats and Claude Code sessions while the model-improvement setting is on (the pricing page marks these plans opt-out) and keeps that data for five years, against 30 days with it off; Team, Enterprise and API data is not used for training by default.
- Payments are generally non-refundable unless the Consumer Terms or local law say otherwise: you can ask support to check your eligibility, the EEA and UK get a 14-day refund prorated by use, App Store purchases are refunded by Apple, and a cancelled plan runs to the end of the period.
- Max is billed monthly only (yearly billing is for Pro and Team, and Enterprise is yearly only), and prices vary by region and in the mobile apps.
See the full Claude Code review and how we research.
Sources
- Claude plans and pricing (checked 2026-10-13)
- Claude Code product page (checked 2026-10-13)
- Claude Help: Use Claude Code with your Pro or Max plan (checked 2026-10-13)
- Claude Help: Use Claude Code with your Team or Enterprise plan (checked 2026-10-13)
- Claude Help: What is the Pro plan? (checked 2026-10-13)
- Claude Help: What is the Max plan? (checked 2026-10-13)
- Claude Help: How do usage and length limits work? (checked 2026-10-13)
- Claude Help: Manage usage credits for paid Claude plans (checked 2026-10-13)
- Claude Help: Monthly API credits for Max and Team plans (checked 2026-10-13)
- Claude Help: Claude Fable models on your plan (checked 2026-10-13)
- Claude Help: Request a refund for a paid Claude plan (checked 2026-10-13)
- Claude Help: Claude Code, Claude Cowork and Claude Design guest passes (checked 2026-10-13)
- Claude Code docs: Overview (checked 2026-10-13)
- Claude Code docs: Manage costs effectively (checked 2026-10-13)
- Claude Code docs: Data usage (checked 2026-10-13)
- Claude Code docs: Use Claude Code in the cloud (checked 2026-10-13)
- Claude Code docs: Orchestrate subagents at scale with dynamic workflows (checked 2026-10-13)
- Claude Code docs: Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions (agent teams) (checked 2026-10-13)
- Claude Code docs: Code Review (checked 2026-10-13)
- Anthropic Privacy Center: How do I change my model improvement privacy settings? (checked 2026-10-13)
- The New Stack: Grok Build vs. Claude Code memory test (checked 2026-10-13)
- The New Stack: Claude Code's dynamic workflows tested (checked 2026-10-13)
- Zapier: Claude Code vs. Cursor (checked 2026-10-13)
- Tom's Guide: Claude Code vs ChatGPT Codex (checked 2026-10-13)
- VS Code Marketplace: Claude Code for VS Code (checked 2026-10-13)