Claude (Anthropic) Pricing
All plans and pricing as of 2026-07-04
Pro
- ✓5x more usage than Free
- ✓Claude Opus 4.8 + Sonnet 5
- ✓Effort control + extended thinking
- ✓Priority access
Max (5x)
- ✓5x Pro usage
- ✓Priority queue
- ✓Opus 4.8 with full effort control + fast mode
Max (20x)
- ✓20x Pro usage
- ✓Highest priority
- ✓All generally-available models
- ✓Best for power users and agents
API (Opus 4.8)
- ✓Unchanged from Opus 4.7 pricing
- ✓1M context window
- ✓Fast mode at $10 / $50 per 1M (2.5x speed, 3x cheaper than prior fast mode)
- ✓Tool use, MCP, high-res vision; Bedrock, Vertex AI, Foundry
API (Sonnet 5)
- ✓Launched 2026-06-30 as the 'most agentic Sonnet yet' -- approaches Opus 4.8 quality at lower cost
- ✓Default model on Free + Pro; also on Max/Team/Enterprise, Claude Code, and the API (claude-sonnet-5)
- ✓Updated tokenizer (input maps to ~1.0-1.35x more tokens depending on content type)
- ✓OSWorld-Verified 78.5%; scored 0.0% on cyber-exploit-development evals (safety)
API (Fable 5)
- ✓First publicly available Mythos-class model (launched 2026-06-09; suspended 6/12 by US-gov order; RESTORED globally 2026-07-01 after controls lifted 6/30)
- ✓Included for up to 50% of weekly usage limits on Pro/Max/Team/Enterprise through 2026-07-07, usage credits after
- ✓Auto-fallback to Opus 4.8 on cyber/bio/chem-flagged requests (<5% of sessions); new classifier blocks the reported jailbreak technique in >99% of cases
- ✓Mandatory 30-day retention on all Mythos-class traffic (not used for training)
Is Claude (Anthropic) Worth the Price?
Value Score: 8/10
Overall Score: 8.5/10 · Writers, analysts, developers, and anyone who values quality of output over quantity of features. If you care about how good the actual text is, Claude is the best.
Claude is the LLM you pick when quality matters more than features -- and after a turbulent June, the full lineup is back on the table. Fable 5 (June 9, 2026), the first publicly usable Mythos-class model, was pulled by a US-government export-control order on June 12; the controls were lifted June 30 and Anthropic redeployed Fable 5 globally on July 1, so the Fable-tier ceiling is available again (with a new classifier hardening it against the reported jailbreak). Alongside the restoration, the more consequential change for most users is Claude Sonnet 5 (June 30): the new default on Free and Pro, 'most agentic Sonnet yet,' at $2/$10 per 1M through August. Above it sits Opus 4.8 -- the $5/$25 workhorse with effort control, a cheap fast mode, a 1M context window, high-res vision, and MCP -- still arguably the best writing-and-reasoning model you can buy, with Apple naming Claude a selectable system assistant in iOS 27 this fall. The practical read: pick Sonnet 5 for everyday agentic/coding work, Opus 4.8 when quality is non-negotiable, and Fable 5 when you need the absolute frontier.
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How Claude (Anthropic) Pricing Compares
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude (Anthropic)(this tool) | Yes | $0 | 8/10 | 8.5 |
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