All subscription prices are per-user per-month. Annual billing locks in the lower rate.

Same models, same Claude Code access. Max gives you more usage within the 5-hour rolling window — 5× or 20× Pro’s limit depending on tier — and eliminates peak-hours throttling. If you regularly hit Pro’s limits mid-session, Max is the upgrade. If you haven’t hit limits on Pro, you don’t need Max.

The SpaceX Colossus 1 compute expansion doubled the 5-hour rate limit ceiling for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise — at no price increase. If you’ve been hitting limits and considering upgrading to Max, check first whether the doubled Pro ceiling now fits your workflow.

API pricing is pay-per-token — you pay for what you use, no subscription required. Rates as of May 2026 (verified from Anthropic’s official models page):

Batch API discounts, prompt caching rates, and extended thinking costs apply on top — see Anthropic’s full pricing page for those specifics.

Subscription wins for consistent daily use (claude.ai interface, Claude Code). API wins for variable-volume programmatic use and batch workloads. The breakeven point: if you’re using Claude heavily enough to hit Pro’s limits even weekly, you’re likely consuming more than $20/month in equivalent API tokens. For batch processing at scale, the Batch API with its discount rate is almost always the most cost-efficient path.

List price: Opus 4.7 is $5/$25 per MTok input/output vs Sonnet 4.6’s $3/$15 — roughly 1.67× more expensive at list. However, Opus 4.7’s tokenizer produces approximately 1.46× more tokens per task than Sonnet 4.6 on typical workloads, meaning real-world Opus 4.7 costs can run meaningfully higher than the list price ratio implies. For most production API workloads, Sonnet 4.6 is the right default. Use Opus 4.7 when the task genuinely requires maximum reasoning and cost is secondary.

Two charges: standard API token rates for whatever model you use, plus $0.08 per session-hour of active runtime. That’s the complete formula — no other managed infrastructure fee on top.

A session-hour is one hour of active session status. Billing is metered to the millisecond. Idle time, time waiting for your input, and time waiting for tool confirmations do not accrue charges.

Maximum theoretical monthly runtime cost (24/7 agent): 24 hrs × $0.08 × 30 days = $57.60/month. In practice, token costs become the dominant cost driver well before you approach this ceiling.

Full breakdown: Claude Managed Agents Complete Pricing Reference

$10 per 1,000 searches ($0.01 per search), billed separately from session runtime and token costs. Same rate as web search via the standard API.

Dreaming uses an advisor/executor billing model. The advisor generates a short plan (typically 400–700 tokens) at the advisor model’s rate; the executor handles the full memory reorganization at its rate. Combined cost stays well below running the advisor model end-to-end. Use max_uses to cap advisor calls per request. Dreaming is developer preview — invitation-only access as of May 2026. Docs: platform.claude.com/docs/en/managed-agents/dreams

$25 per million input tokens, $125 per million output tokens. Invitation-only through Project Glasswing — no self-serve access. Contact Anthropic at anthropic.com/glasswing. Claude Mythos is not available through any subscription tier or standard API access.

Claude Security Beta is available to all Enterprise customers during the beta period — included as part of Enterprise, no separate per-scan fee. Underlying model is Opus 4.7 ($5/$25 per MTok at API rates). For Enterprise pricing including Claude Security, contact Anthropic sales. Standard API users do not have access during beta.