Reported News
Claude Max 20x becomes Ultra at $200, with no five-hour limit for verified accounts
Anthropic's help center says "The Max 20x plan is now called the Ultra plan", at $200 a month, and verified Ultra accounts have no five-hour limit. Max is $100 a month with 5x Pro usage every 5 hours and every week; Ultra keeps a weekly limit of 10x Pro (as of Oct 30, 2026).
- Changes reported
- 6
- listed below, each from a source we read
- We tested
- 0
- we did not run it ourselves
- Gaps we flag
- 3
- things we could not verify
- Sources
- 3
- 3 primary, linked below
What changed
| # | What the source says | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Anthropic's help center says the Max 20x plan is now called Ultra and that existing Max 20x subscribers move to Ultra automatically, with no price change. Ultra costs $200 a month on the web. | Reported |
| 02 | The pricing page now lists Free, Pro, Max and Ultra. Max is $100 a month with 5x Pro usage every 5 hours and every week; there is no separate Max 5x tier. | Reported |
| 03 | Verified Ultra accounts have no five-hour limit. Unverified accounts get a temporary limit that Anthropic removes automatically, based on account and payment history. No Current session bar in Settings > Usage means you are verified. | Reported |
| 04 | Ultra still has a weekly limit of 10x Pro usage across all models, plus a separate weekly limit for Fable, and Anthropic says it may add other limits to manage capacity. | Reported |
| 05 | The pricing page lists monthly API credits of $100 on Max and $200 on Ultra, and Fable on both plans for up to half the weekly limit. | Reported |
| 06 | Claude Code is included in all paid plans and shares the plan's limits, so Ultra's change also applies to long Claude Code sessions. | Reported |
reported by the sourcemeasured or run by usnot verified
Primary source: Claude Help Center: What is the Ultra plan?. We are the fast, independent index; the vendor’s own page is the source of record for this release.
In the source’s words
“The Max 20x plan is now called the Ultra plan.”
“Verified Ultra accounts don't have a five-hour limit.”
“Claude Code is included in all paid plans.”
Early verdict
If you hit Claude Code's five-hour cap on the $200 plan, Ultra removes it once your account is verified; the weekly cap still sets the ceiling.
Basis: Based only on Anthropic's help center and pricing page as read on Oct 31, 2026; we have not used an Ultra account.
What we have not verified
- We do not have an Ultra account and did not check the verification flow or session behaviour ourselves.
- Press reports say Anthropic announced the change on X on October 30 and that weekly limits are unchanged; the help-center pages we read do not compare the old and new weekly allowance.
- Mobile app prices may differ from the web prices quoted here, per Anthropic.
This brief is Reported: written from the sources below, not from running the release ourselves.
Sources
- Claude Help Center: What is the Ultra plan?primary source · fetched 2026-10-31
- Claude pricingprimary source · fetched 2026-10-31
- Claude Help Center: What is the Max plan?primary source · fetched 2026-10-31
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