Claude Max

Claude Max 5x, Max 20x and Team subscriptions come with monthly API credits: Max 5x is $100, Max 20x is $200, Team pools credits per seat with a cap of $500, credits refresh monthly and do not accumulate, and Pro subscriptions are not included.

Claude Max is a consumer-level subscription plan launched by Anthropic for heavy users, priced at $200 per month, providing unlimited usage.

Max subscriptions must meet 7 active days before the bundled API credits begin to be issued.

The unused portion of the free API credits is reset to zero at the end of each billing cycle and is not a long-term resource that can accumulate.

The Team plan can receive up to $500 per month in API credits, with pooled sharing supported.

Claude does not support domestic payment methods, so upgrading to Claude Pro or Max requires the use of third-party subscription proxy platforms.

Max subscription pricing is about 5 times that of Pro (the official page shows Pro starting at about R$ 92 and Max starting at about R$ 550), in exchange for 5 times the usage plus $100 per month in API credits.

If it is only for everyday conversation, the Pro plan is entirely sufficient; if you use Claude every day and want to build products on the API, Max's cost-effectiveness is markedly improved by the complimentary credits.

Max subscription usage applies to the claude.ai web, desktop, and interactive Claude Code sessions and is rate-limited by message count/time window; the promotional credits are an independent API billing balance, the two use different billing channels and will not offset each other.

Claude Max's API credits do not roll over to the next month and are reset to zero at the end of the billing cycle.

The Claude Max plan includes two parts of resources: the in-subscription conversation usage limits and the billable promotional API credits, and the two are not interchangeable.

Anthropic's move to add API credits to Max and Team subscriptions may push some Pro users to migrate to Max.

Anthropic's Max and Team plans now include monthly Claude API credits.

Claude Max comes in two tiers, 5X ($100 per month) and 20X ($200 per month), neither of which offers an annual billing discount.

Claude Max and Pro overlap almost completely in their feature lists, with the main difference being usage capacity.

The API credits included with the Max plan can be used for API calls and the Agent SDK, but do not cover interactive Claude Code or Claude's internal usage credits.

Using Fable 5.1 on Pro and Team Standard consumes usage credits (an extra charge); on Max and Team Premium it is deducted from the weekly quota, capped at half the quota.

Artificial Analysis reports that at the roughly $200 tier, Claude Max provides about $12,500 worth of Sonnet usage and about $12,000 worth of Opus usage, while ChatGPT Pro provides only about $2,000 worth of GPT-6.1 usage or $3,000 worth of GPT-6 Aster usage.

A Semi Analysis report points out that at a subscription price of about $200, Claude Max is estimated to provide about 12,500 Sonnet uses, about 12,000 Opus uses, or 2,500 Fable uses.

Max 5x costs about $100 per month and offers about 5 times the usage of Pro; Max 20x costs about $200 per month and offers about 20 times the usage.