The short answer
Claude pricing depends on what you’re buying. For the Claude app in the US, Free is $0, Pro is $20 monthly or $200 billed upfront annually, Max is $100 per month, and Ultra is $200 per month. Team is priced per seat: Standard is $25 per seat monthly or $20 per seat per month with annual billing; Premium is $125 per seat monthly or $100 per seat per month with annual billing. Prices exclude applicable taxes, and prices or terms can vary by region. (Claude pricing)
Production API calls are priced separately by model and tokens processed. The current listed rates for the models below range from $0.10 per million input tokens for Haiku 5.5 prompts up to 100,000 tokens to $10 per million input tokens for Fable 5.1; output rates range from $0.50 to $50 per million tokens. Eligible Max, Ultra, and Team subscribers can claim monthly API credits, but those credits have conditions and do not cover every Claude product. (Claude Platform pricing)
Prices and plan details below reflect Anthropic’s published information available November 9, 2026. Treat estimates as budget calculations, not guaranteed bills.
Claude subscription prices
| Claude plan | US listed price | Billing unit and notable budget difference |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Individual app access with limited usage. |
| Pro | $20 monthly, or $200 annually ($17/month equivalent) | Individual subscription; more usage than Free, and Claude Code access. Annual price is billed upfront. |
| Max | $100/month | Individual subscription; 5× Pro usage every five hours and every week. Includes $100/month in claimable API credits, subject to eligibility and claim conditions. |
| Ultra | $200/month | Individual subscription; 10× Pro usage every week, with no five-hour limit for verified accounts. Includes $200/month in claimable API credits, subject to eligibility and claim conditions. |
| Team Standard | $25 per seat monthly, or $20 per seat per month billed annually | Standard features, usage limits, and Claude Code access. Annual billing calculates to $240 per Standard seat for the year. |
| Team Premium | $125 per seat monthly, or $100 per seat per month billed annually | Everything in Standard, plus higher usage limits. Annual billing calculates to $1,200 per Premium seat for the year. |
| Enterprise | Seat fee plus usage on usage-based plans; contract terms depend on the plan | For current usage-based Enterprise plans, the seat fee covers platform access and token usage is charged separately at standard API rates. Confirm the terms for your organization’s plan. |
Max offers more usage capacity than Pro. Ultra increases weekly capacity further; its five-hour limit does not apply to verified accounts. For Team, Premium is the higher-capacity seat: organizations can assign it to users who need more usage and keep others on Standard. Match the tier or seat to measured usage rather than assuming everyone needs the highest-capacity option. (Claude pricing; Claude Help Center: Team seats; Ultra plan details)
Claude Code is included with Pro and with every Team seat, including Standard; Claude and Claude Code usage share the subscription’s usage limits. If Claude Code uses an ANTHROPIC_API_KEY for authentication, usage is billed to the API instead of counted against the subscription. (Claude Help Center: Pro, Max, and Ultra; Claude Help Center: Team and Enterprise)
Anthropic says Team requires at least two members. For example, two Standard seats cost $50 per month with monthly billing, or $480 for the year at the annual rate, before applicable taxes. The $480 is a calculation from the annual per-seat rate, not a separately quoted total. Annual-plan seat charges are due at the start of the subscription year. (Claude Help Center: Team billing)
The practical choice depends on how you use Claude: individual app subscriptions, Team seats, and Enterprise seat fees are not API token rates. On usage-based Enterprise plans, tokens are billed separately at standard API rates; Enterprise billing details differ by plan type, so check the terms that apply to your organization. (Claude Help Center: Enterprise billing)
Claude API prices for production use
Anthropic’s API prices below are in US dollars per million tokens (MTok). Input and output are billed separately. Prompt-cache writes and cache reads have separate rates, so they can change a production estimate. The listed rates apply to the Claude Platform pricing table; other cloud platforms may invoice under their own pricing arrangements. (Claude Platform pricing)
| API model and prompt size | Input | Output | 5-minute cache write | 1-hour cache write | Cache reads |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 5.5, prompt up to 100,000 tokens | $0.10 | $0.50 | $0.125 | $0.20 | $0.01 |
| Claude Haiku 5.5, prompt over 100,000 tokens | $0.50 | $2.50 | $0.625 | $1.00 | $0.05 |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | $2 | $10 | $2.50 | $4 | $0.10 |
| Claude Opus 5.5 | $4 | $20 | $5 | $8 | $0.20 |
| Claude Fable 5.1 | $10 | $50 | $12.50 | $20 | $0.25 |
For Haiku 5.5, the higher rate applies to prompts over 100,000 tokens; the pricing table lists the higher input, output, cache-write, and cache-read prices for that prompt tier. Do not use the lower-rate row for a prompt above the threshold. (Claude Platform pricing)
Anthropic describes Haiku 5.5 for high-volume, latency-sensitive tasks such as classification, extraction, and routing; Sonnet 5.5 as a combination of speed and intelligence; Opus 5.5 for long-running agentic coding and knowledge work; and Fable 5.1 for demanding reasoning and long-horizon agentic work. Treat these as starting points, not guarantees: test representative production tasks for quality, latency, and throughput before choosing a model. (Claude Platform pricing)
Example: estimate a monthly API budget
Suppose your application makes 10,000 requests per month, averaging 2,000 input tokens and 500 output tokens per request. That is 20 million input tokens and 5 million output tokens. Ignoring caching and other special pricing, the estimate is:
- Sonnet 5.5: (20 × $2) + (5 × $10) = $90/month
- Opus 5.5: (20 × $4) + (5 × $20) = $180/month
- Fable 5.1: (20 × $10) + (5 × $50) = $450/month
- Haiku 5.5: (20 × $0.10) + (5 × $0.50) = $4.50/month, assuming prompts qualify for the up-to-100,000-token rates
These are reproducible token-cost estimates using published base rates—not quotes or guaranteed totals. Actual charges depend on measured token counts, selected model, output length, cache use, and applicable pricing terms. For Haiku prompts over 100,000 tokens, recalculate using that prompt tier’s input and output rates. (Claude Platform pricing)
To adapt the calculation, use:
Monthly API estimate = (monthly input tokens ÷ 1,000,000 × input rate) + (monthly output tokens ÷ 1,000,000 × output rate)
For production budgeting, measure token counts from a representative sample of actual prompts and responses. Account separately for eligible caching, batch, or other pricing modifiers in Anthropic’s current documentation.
Do Claude subscriptions include API usage?
Claude app plans and the Claude Platform API are separate billing channels. API use is generally billed separately from the app subscription, though eligible Max, Ultra, and Team subscribers can claim monthly Claude Platform credits. Free, Pro, and Enterprise plans are not eligible for these credits. (Claude Platform documentation)
The stated monthly credit amounts are $100 per Max plan, $200 per Ultra plan, $20 per Team Standard seat, and $100 per Team Premium seat. Team credits are pooled across seats and capped at $500 per month. The credit documentation lists Claude API, Managed Agents, Agent SDK, and playground usage as covered; credits do not cover Claude Code or extra usage in Claude apps. (Claude Help Center: monthly API credits; Claude Platform documentation)
A credit is not automatic spend reduction. New subscribers can claim after seven days on an eligible plan. Claiming requires linking a Claude Console organization; only one organization can be linked to a plan, and each Console organization can receive credits from only one plan. Credits expire at the end of the billing cycle (or monthly for annual plans) and do not roll over. Subtract a credit from a budget only after confirming eligibility and claiming it. (Claude Help Center: monthly API credits)
So, use the subscription price to budget for app access and its usage limits; use API token rates for production calls; and subtract an API credit only if your plan is eligible and you have claimed and linked it. Claude Code is available through supported subscription plans, but API credits do not pay for Claude Code usage. (Claude Platform documentation)
Sources
Plans & pricing | Claude by Anthropic
Pricing | Claude Platform Docs
Use Claude Code with your Pro, Max, or Ultra plan | Claude Help Center
Use Claude Code with your Team or Enterprise plan | Claude Help Center
Purchase and manage seats on Team plans | Claude Help Center
What is the Ultra plan? | Claude Help Center
How is my Team plan bill calculated? | Claude Help Center
How am I billed for my Enterprise plan? | Claude Help Center
API credits for Max, Ultra, and Team plans | Claude Platform Docs
Monthly API credits for Max, Ultra, and Team plans | Claude Help Center