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Claude pricing in the US
Anthropic sells Claude to US businesses in US dollars before sales tax: Free, Pro, Max 5x and Max 20x for one person each, Team for 2 to 150 people with standard and premium seats, and Enterprise at a US dollar seat fee. Use past a plan's limits is charged at API rates, and the Claude API itself is priced per million tokens.
Country
- Starting price
- Free plan
- Paid from US$20/month (Claude Pro)
- Pricing model
- Per person for one user
- Per seat for teams
- Plus usage at API rates
- Billing
- Monthly or yearly
- Max monthly only; Enterprise yearly
- Tax
- Sales tax not included
- Prices in USD; tax follows the billing address
- YOY change
- Not enough history
- Last updated
- 18 Oct 2026
How much does Claude cost in the US?
Plans
Six plans priced in USD before sales tax, and Enterprise at a US dollar seat fee.
| Plan | Monthly | Annual, per month | Who it is for | Key limits |
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| Claude Free | US$0 per user | Not offered | Try Claude | Key limits
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| Claude Pro | US$20 per user | US$17 per user | For everyday work | Key limits
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| Claude Max 5x | US$100 per user | Not offered | For people who work with Claude all day | Key limits
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| Claude Max 20x | US$200 per user | Not offered | For people who work with Claude all day | Key limits
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| Claude Team | US$25 per user | US$20 per user | For teams of 2 to 150 | Key limits
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| Claude Team, premium seat | US$125 per user | US$100 per user | 5x more usage than standard seats | Key limits
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| Claude Enterprise | US$20 a seat, paid yearly, plus usage | Not offered | For large businesses operating at scale | Key limits
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Additional costs
Costs on top of the plan price.
| Cost | Price | Source |
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| Usage past a plan's limits | Standard API ratesPrepaid usage credits, at API rates | |
| Usage bundles | 10% to 30% off usage creditsPrepaid credits bought in bundles | |
| Team premium seat | US$125 a month, or US$100 paid yearlyPer seat, in place of a standard seat | |
| Team minimum of 2 seats | US$50 a month on standard seatsBilled for at least 2 seats | |
| Team maximum of 150 seats | Enterprise pricingPast 150 people, Enterprise is required | |
| Enterprise usage | Varies with useOn top of the seat fee, at API rates | |
| Fast mode on Claude Opus 5.5 | 2 times the standard API priceAPI usage | |
| US-only inference on the API | 1.1 times the standard API priceAPI usage run only in the US |
API prices
The Claude API is billed by use, in US dollars per million tokens, separately from any plan.
| Model | Input | Output | Cached input | Context window | Source |
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| Claude Fable 5.1 | US$10 | US$50 | US$0.25 | 1M tokens | |
| Claude Opus 5.5 | US$4 | US$20 | US$0.20 | 1M tokens | |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | US$2 | US$10 | US$0.10 | 1M tokens | |
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | US$0.10 | US$0.50 | US$0.01 | 1M tokens |
Claude cost calculator
Enter how many people need Claude, any extra usage, and any API use to price every plan. Estimates in USD, before sales tax.
How many people in each role will use AI?
For example, General office: 10 people. 12 people in total.
- General officeEmail, writing, summaries and researchpeople
- Content and marketingDrafting, editing and campaignspeople
- Software developmentCoding assistants, reviews and debuggingpeople
- Customer supportReplies and ticket summariespeople
- Finance and analysisSpreadsheets, reports and documentspeople
Do you also want AI to do jobs automatically?
How many times a month for each job. For example, 300 if you sign about 300 contracts a month.
Writing
- Answer support emailsa month
- Summarise email threadsa month
- Answer questions from your documentsa month
- Summarise contractsa month
- Draft blog posts or newslettersa month
- Review code changesa month
Decisions
- Route support ticketsa month
- Score inbound leadsa month
- Flag invoices for reviewa month
- Check documents against a policya month
Estimated cost
US$300a month
Claude Team: 12 people
- Per year, billed monthly
- US$3,600
- Per year, billed annually
- US$2,880Saves US$720
- Seats
- US$300
How we worked it out
- General office staff use AI in short bursts, so a standard seat covers them.
- Content and marketing staff use AI through the day, within a standard seat's limits.
Estimated, USD, excluding sales tax.
What Claude costs by company size
Estimated cost by number of employees, assuming every employee gets a seat, on the cheapest plan that fits each end of the band.
| Employees | Plans | Monthly cost | Annual cost | |||||||||
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| 1 to 10 | Claude Free to Claude Team | US$0 to US$250 | US$0 | to | US$250 | US$0 to US$3,000 | US$0 | to | US$3,000 | |||
| 11 to 50 | Claude Team | US$275 to US$1,250 | US$275 | to | US$1,250 | US$3,300 to US$15,000 | US$3,300 | to | US$15,000 | |||
| 51 to 200 | Claude Team | US$1,275 to No plan | US$1,275 | to | No plan | US$15,300 to No plan | US$15,300 | to | No plan | |||
| 201 to 500 | No plan fits | |||||||||||
Claude discount codes and offers
Current Claude offers in the US, checked 18 October 2026.
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Pay yearly
Pro US$17 a month instead of US$20; Team standard US$20 a seat instead of US$25
Billed once up front for the year; Pro and Team only, not Max
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Guest pass
7 days of Pro free
From an existing Pro or Max subscriber
New to paid Claude; card required; charged when the pass ends unless cancelled
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Claude for Nonprofits
Discounted Team and Enterprise pricing
Open to registered 501(c)(3) organisations
How to negotiate Claude's price
Ranked by confidence of the biggest return.
| Rank | Lever | How it works | What it can save |
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| [01] | Pay yearly | Team standard drops from US$25 to US$20 a seat, and premium from US$125 to US$100. Pro drops from US$20 to US$17 a month. | US$60 a standard seat a year; US$300 a premium seat |
| [02] | Give premium seats only to heavy users | Seats can be mixed on Team. Most people fit a standard seat; premium is 5 times the usage at 5 times the price. | US$80 a seat a month, paid yearly, for each premium seat avoided |
| [03] | Stay on Pro while you are one person | Team bills at least 2 seats. One person on Pro pays US$20 against US$50 for the smallest Team. | US$30 a month |
| [04] | Use included API credits first | Max and Team include monthly credits for the Claude API: US$20 a standard seat and US$100 a premium seat, pooled up to US$500. | Up to US$500 a month of API use |
| [05] | Buy usage in bundles | Bundles of prepaid usage credits cost 10% to 30% less than the same credits bought as you go. | 10% to 30% of usage spend |
| [06] | Remove unused seats before renewal | Team is billed per seat. Check who has not used Claude in the last month before a yearly renewal. | US$240 a standard seat a year, paid yearly |
| [07] | Ask for terms on Enterprise | Enterprise through Anthropic's sales team offers tiered incentives on committed spend that self-serve plans do not. | Not publicly listed |
Claude price history
Claude's US plan price history is not charted here yet. The Claude API's price over the last two years is below.
API prices
Claude's API price over the same two years, one line per model family, in US dollars per million tokens. Each point is the blended price, 70% input and 30% output; hover for each launch and change.
Claude alternatives
Other tools in our price guides for the US, largest first by market share.
| Vendor | Starting price | Pricing model | Key difference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | Free plan; paid from US$8 a user a month (ChatGPT Go) | Per person for one user, per seat for teams, plus usage credits | Per person or per seat in USD, sales tax extra, plus usage credits | Price guides |
| Gemini | Free plan; paid from US$4.99 a user a month (Google AI Plus) | Per person on Google AI plans, per user in Google Workspace, plus AI credit top-ups | Per person on Google AI plans, or per user inside Google Workspace, in USD | Price guides |
| Meta AI | Free plan; paid from US$7.99 a user a month (Meta One Core) | Free for everyday use, per person for Core and Premium, per profile for business plans, plus API usage | Free assistant, with paid Meta One bundles per person or per business profile | Price guides |
| Grok | Free plan; paid from US$8 a user a month (Grok Plus) | Per person for one user, per seat for teams, plus prepaid usage credit | Per person or per seat in USD before sales tax, plus prepaid usage credit | Price guides |
| DeepSeek | Pay as you go API, per million tokens | Pay as you go, per million tokens, half price off-peak | API only, pay as you go per million tokens in US dollars, half price off-peak | Price guides |
| Mistral Vibe | Free plan; paid from US$15 a user a month (Mistral Vibe Pro) | Per person for one user, per seat for teams, plus usage at API rates | Per person or per seat in US dollars before tax, with API usage in the same plan | Price guides |
| Qwen | US$8 a user a month (Qwen Token Plan Lite) | Per person for one developer, per seat for teams, plus API usage per token | Per person or per seat in US dollars on monthly Credits quotas, plus API usage per token | Price guides |
| Kimi | Free plan; paid from US$19 a user a month (Kimi Plus) | Per person for one user, per seat for teams, paid yearly, plus usage top-ups | Per person or per seat in US dollars, Business paid yearly, plus top-ups at about API rates | Price guides |
| Z.ai | Free plan; paid from US$18 a user a month (GLM Coding Plan Lite) | Per person for one user, per seat for teams, plus Team overage at API rates | Per person or per seat in US dollars before tax, 20% off quarterly and 30% off yearly | Price guides |
| MiniMax | Free plan; paid from US$22 a user a month (MiniMax M Plan Go) | Per person for one user, no team plan, plus credit packs past plan limits | Per person in US dollars before tax, no team plan, plus credit packs past plan limits | Price guides |
| Jev | Pay as you go API, per million tokens | Pay as you go, per input token, output free | API only, per billion input tokens in US dollars, output free | Price guides |
Claude pricing questions
Claude Free costs nothing. Pro is US$20 a month, or US$200 paid yearly. Max is US$100 a month for 5x and US$200 for 20x. Team is US$25 a seat a month for standard seats and US$125 for premium seats, or US$20 and US$100 paid yearly, for 2 to 150 people. Enterprise is US$20 a seat a month paid yearly, plus usage. Prices are before sales tax.
No. Anthropic's US pricing page says prices shown don't include applicable tax. Tax is worked out from the billing address, which on Pro, Max and self-serve Team is the payment method's address.
Pro and Max are for one person each, and differ in how much use they allow: Max 5x gives 5 times Pro's usage per session, and Max 20x gives 20 times. Team is for 2 to 150 people with central billing and admin, in standard seats at 1.25 times Pro's usage or premium seats at 6.25 times.
Yes, on Pro and Team. Pro is US$200 a year against US$240 paid monthly, about 17% less. Team seats are about 20% less: US$20 against US$25 for standard and US$100 against US$125 for premium. Max is monthly only.
Paid plans can keep going on prepaid usage credits, charged at standard API rates. Credits bought in bundles cost 10% to 30% less. Without credits, use pauses until the session or weekly limit resets.
The API is priced per million tokens in US dollars and billed separately from any plan. Claude Haiku 5.5 is US$0.10 for input and US$0.50 for output; Claude Sonnet 5.5 is US$2 and US$10; Claude Opus 5.5 is US$4 and US$20.
Claude pricing sources and methodology
From claude.com/pricing as shown to a US visitor on 18 October 2026, and Anthropic's help centre. The page shows USD prices and says prices shown don't include applicable tax, so prices here are before tax.
Estimates from list prices, before sales tax. Free, Pro and Max serve one person each, so two or more people are priced on Team standard seats. Extra usage is added at cost. API tokens are priced on the chosen model from Ensurva's AI price guides, in US dollars, less the monthly API credits Max and Team include. Company size assumes every employee gets a seat and no extra usage. Enterprise is not priced.
The pricing page shows Max "From $100"; Anthropic's Max plan help page gives the two tiers, US$100 a month for Max 5x and US$200 for Max 20x.
The API table comes from the same data as Ensurva's AI price guides, read from Anthropic's own pricing pages, in US dollars per million tokens.
No plan price history is charted for this page yet. The API price chart uses the AI price guides' data, in US dollars.
Drawn from how Anthropic charges, not from records of negotiated deals.
Checked monthly against Anthropic's own pages.
The calculator's By use case tab puts each person on a seat that suits how heavily their role uses AI. Software developers use it most, about 15% of their working hours against about 6% across all workers (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2026), so they get the heavier seat where the plan has one. Content, support and finance staff fit a standard seat, and general office staff use AI least. Each automated job is priced at a typical size, about 100 tokens to 75 words: a support reply reads about 1,100 words and writes 200, and a contract summary reads 10,000 and writes 750. Decision jobs read the record and give a short typed answer: about 600 words to route a support ticket, 4,500 to check a document against a policy. Those sizes are Ensurva's own estimates. A model that writes no text, such as Jev, is priced on decision jobs only. Jobs are priced as API use on the vendor's default model, less any API credits the plan includes.
- Claude pricing (US) 18 Oct 2026
- What is the Max plan 18 Oct 2026
- What is the Team plan 18 Oct 2026
- Monthly API credits for Max and Team 18 Oct 2026
- Buy usage bundles 18 Oct 2026
- Billing address and tax calculation 18 Oct 2026
- Guest passes 18 Oct 2026
- Claude for Nonprofits 18 Oct 2026
Prices are estimates from Anthropic's published list prices on the date shown. Check claude.com before buying.