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Anthropic Renames Claude Max 5x and 20x as Max and Ultra and Will Remove Five-Hour Limit for Verified Ultra Accounts
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The Claude Max 5x and Max 20x plans become Max and Ultra, with no change to the prices of 100 and 200 dollars a month. In Ultra, verified accounts will lose the usage cap that applies every five hours, which at first will reach most of those already subscribed. Accounts created more recently will keep that cap until they are verified, and weekly limits do not move.
Anthropic has renamed the two most expensive subscriptions of Claude, its AI assistant, and will lift a usage limit on one of them. According to Infobae, Claude Max 5x becomes Max and Claude Max 20x becomes Ultra.
Rates stay as they were: 100 dollars a month for Max and 200 for Ultra. Anyone already paying for either plan does not have to touch anything in their account. The Claude pricing page already shows the plans under the new names.
The real change is in Ultra: Anthropic will drop the usage cap that runs in five-hour windows for verified accounts, to begin with for most of those already subscribed. Newer accounts will remain subject to that cap temporarily until they complete verification, a step the company justifies as preventing fraud and abuse. Weekly limits stay the same.
For reference, the Pro plan, below both, costs 20 dollars a month billed monthly and 17 with an annual subscription.
Why it matters · analysis and opinion
A name change with no price change hardly moves a subscriber's wallet, but removing the five-hour cap does change how Ultra is used: long sessions, the kind that chain together for hours, stop being cut off midway. The condition is being verified, and new accounts will be left out for a while, so anyone signing up today should not assume they will enjoy it from day one. Weekly limits do not go away either, and they will keep setting total consumption. If a team is torn between Max and Ultra, the sensible step is to measure how often it hits the current limit and check, once the account is verified, whether the difference justifies paying twice the fee.
Source: Infobae · Written with the help of AI: how we make the news
