Anthropic Renames Claude Max Plans and Removes Ultra’s Five-Hour Limit
Anthropic renamed Claude Max 5x to Claude Max and Claude Max 20x to Claude Ultra, keeping the monthly prices at $100 and $200 respectively. Existing subscribers are migrated automatically, while verified Claude Ultra accounts are no longer subject to the five-hour session limit. Anthropic subscriptions product lead Mike Overell clarified that Ultra retains a weekly allowance equal to 10 times Pro usage, even though some account-interface wording still displayed the former 20x designation.
The change materially adjusts access and capacity for Anthropic’s highest-priced Claude subscription tier while retaining its existing price and weekly usage allowance.
I see a lot of confusion around the new Claude Ultra plan concerning the new 10x usage. Worth clarifying 👀 Claude Max 20x (old plan) - 5-hour session allowance - 20x Pro - Weekly allowance - 10x Pro Claude Ultra (new plan) - 5-hour session allowance - N/A - Weekly allowance - 10x Pro
mike overell: I lead product for Claude subscriptions. Today we're renaming our Max plans, and I want to explain why. When we launched our top plan in April 2025, it had a single limit: 5 hours. It gave you 20x Pro's limit, so we called it Max 20x. When we added weekly limits to Max 20x, we