Claude pricing (October 2026)

by Anthropic · Chat assistants

Official Claude pricing ↗Compare with…

Worth it if you want Claude Code included at the $20 Pro tier, or $17 a month billed yearly.

Skip if you need a published message count: Pro only says "more usage than Free".

Start free if the free plan covers you: Free for everyone.

Cheapest paid, billed monthly: Pro · $20.00 USD/moCA$28.00/mo Official CAD
Cheapest paid, billed yearly: Pro · $17.00 USD/moCA$23.00/mo Official CADbilled $200billed CA$280 yearly Save 17%
Free plan: Yes
Prices checked: Verified Oct 17, 2026

Plans

Plan	Monthly USDCAD	Yearly USDCAD/mo	Limits, in Anthropic’s words
FreeBest for trying it before you pay	Free	—	Free for everyone
ProBest for the lowest paid price	$20.00CA$28.00 Official CAD	$17.00CA$23.00 Official CADbilled $200billed CA$280 yearly Save 17%	More usage than Free
Max 5x	$100.00CA$140.00 Official CAD	—	5x Pro usage; $100/mo API credits
Max 20x	$200.00CA$349.99 App Store CAD	—	20x Pro usage; $200/mo API credits
Team Standard TeamBest for teams, priced per seat	$25.00CA$35.00 Official CAD	$20.00CA$28.00 Official CAD≈ $240billed CA$336 yearly Save 20%	Per seat; more usage than Pro
Team Premium TeamBest for teams, priced per seat	$125.00CA$175.00 Official CAD	$100.00CA$140.00 Official CAD≈ $1,200billed CA$1,680 yearly Save 20%	Per seat; 5x more usage than standard seats

Before tax, from Anthropic’s official pricing page ↗. ≈ = converted from USD at 1.4196 (Bank of Canada, Oct 15). Other CAD prices are the vendor’s own Canadian price or the App Store Canada price. Hover a price for its label and checked date.

More details limits, tax, history, alternatives, method

Pro $20 monthly or $17/mo billed annually. Max from $100 (5x) and $200 (20x). Team seats $25/$20 standard, $125/$100 premium.

Usage limits, credits and models

Free

Usage limits: Free for everyone
Credits, minutes, images: Not published · check Claude’s page (official pricing page) ↗
Models: Not published · check Claude’s page (official pricing page) ↗
Key features: Chat on web, desktop, and mobile
Search the web, create files, and run code
Memory across conversations
Connect your apps and tools
Create Artifacts

Pro

Usage limits: More usage than Free
Credits, minutes, images: Not published · check Claude’s page (official pricing page) ↗
Models: Not published · check Claude’s page (official pricing page) ↗
Key features: Hand off and schedule tasks
Claude Dashboards (beta)
Claude Code
Claude Science

Max 5x

Usage limits: 5x Pro usage; $100/mo API credits
Credits, minutes, images: $100/mo API credits
Models: Not published · check Claude’s page (official pricing page) ↗
Key features: Choose 5x or 20x more usage than Pro
Higher output limits for all tasks
Early access to advanced Claude features
Priority access at high traffic times

Max 20x

Usage limits: 20x Pro usage; $200/mo API credits
Credits, minutes, images: $200/mo API credits
Models: Not published · check Claude’s page (official pricing page) ↗
Key features: Choose 5x or 20x more usage than Pro
Higher output limits for all tasks
Early access to advanced Claude features
Priority access at high traffic times

Team Standard Team

Usage limits: Per seat; more usage than Pro
Credits, minutes, images: Not published · check Claude’s page (official pricing page) ↗
Models: Not published · check Claude’s page (official pricing page) ↗
Key features: Not published · check Claude’s page (official pricing page) ↗

Team Premium Team

Usage limits: Per seat; 5x more usage than standard seats
Credits, minutes, images: Not published · check Claude’s page (official pricing page) ↗
Models: Not published · check Claude’s page (official pricing page) ↗
Key features: Not published · check Claude’s page (official pricing page) ↗

Free plan: Free for everyone.

Where each price comes from, with tax

Tax for

Plan	Monthly USDCAD	Yearly USDCAD/mo	Checked
FreeBest for trying it before you pay	Free	—	Verified Oct 17 · Source for Free: Anthropic pricing page ↗Verified Oct 17 · Source ↗
ProBest for the lowest paid price	$20.00CA$28.00 Official CAD+ 13% HST = CA$31.64/mo in ON	$17.00CA$23.00 Official CADbilled $200billed CA$280 yearly Save 17%+ 13% HST = CA$25.99/mo in ON	Verified Oct 17 · Source for Pro: Anthropic pricing page ↗Checked Oct 16 · claude.com (source for this CAD price) ↗
Max 5x	$100.00CA$140.00 Official CAD+ 13% HST = CA$158.20/mo in ON	—	Verified Oct 17 · Source for Max 5x: Anthropic pricing page ↗Checked Oct 16 · claude.com (source for this CAD price) ↗
Max 20x	$200.00CA$349.99 App Store CAD+ 13% HST = CA$395.49/mo in ON	—	Verified Oct 17 · Source for Max 20x: Anthropic pricing page ↗Checked Oct 16 · apps.apple.com (source for this CAD price) ↗
Team Standard TeamBest for teams, priced per seat	$25.00CA$35.00 Official CAD+ 13% HST = CA$39.55/mo in ON	$20.00CA$28.00 Official CAD≈ $240billed CA$336 yearly Save 20%+ 13% HST = CA$31.64/mo in ON	Verified Oct 17 · Source for Team Standard: Anthropic pricing page ↗Checked Oct 16 · claude.com (source for this CAD price) ↗
Team Premium TeamBest for teams, priced per seat	$125.00CA$175.00 Official CAD+ 13% HST = CA$197.75/mo in ON	$100.00CA$140.00 Official CAD≈ $1,200billed CA$1,680 yearly Save 20%+ 13% HST = CA$158.20/mo in ON	Verified Oct 17 · Source for Team Premium: Anthropic pricing page ↗Checked Oct 16 · claude.com (source for this CAD price) ↗

USD from Anthropic’s US pricing page, before tax. Switch to CAD to see Canadian prices with sales tax.Official CAD = Anthropic’s page shows CAD to Canadians. App Store CAD = Apple App Store Canada (web checkout may differ). Estimate (≈) = USD × 1.4196, Bank of Canada, Oct 15, 2026. Tax is an estimate: what you pay depends on the vendor’s GST/HST registration. Yearly totals with tax

Change history

Tracking started Oct 15, 2026. No price or plan changes confirmed since then.

Alternatives to Claude

Tool	Cheapest paid USDCAD/mo	Free plan	Compare
Character.AIVerified Oct 16Character Technologies	$4.99≈CA$7.08 Estimate	Yes	Claude vs Character.AI
Gemini (Google AI)Verified Oct 16Google	$4.99CA$6.99 Official CAD	Yes	Claude vs Gemini
ChatGPTVerified Oct 16OpenAI	$8.00CA$11.00 Official CAD	Yes	Claude vs ChatGPT
Grok (X Subscription)Verified Oct 17xAI	$8.00≈CA$11.36 Estimate	Yes	Claude vs Grok
Mistral Le ChatVerified Oct 17Mistral AI	$14.99≈CA$21.28 Estimate	Yes	Claude vs Mistral Le Chat

Prices checked Oct 16–Oct 17, 2026 against official pricing pages. Before tax. ≈ = converted from USD at 1.4196 (Bank of Canada, Oct 15). Other CAD prices are the vendor’s own Canadian price or the App Store Canada price. Hover a price for its label and checked date.

Free and open-source options

Options for chat that you can run yourself or use on a hosted service. Checked Oct 16, 2026.

Your setup	Option	Licence or price	Needs / free tier
Windows or Linux PC with an NVIDIA GPU or Apple Silicon Mac	Qwen3 (8B) ↗	Apache-2.0	8B ≈ 6–8GB VRAM at 4-bit; runs on 16GB Macs
CPU only or a laptop	Ollama ↗	MIT	Runs on macOS/Windows/Linux; RAM needs scale with model (8B ≈ 8–16GB RAM)
No hardware (hosted)	OpenRouter (free models) ↗	Pay per token for paid models; ':free' model variants $0	Yes: free models 20 req/min, 50/day (1000/day after $10 lifetime credit purchase)

We haven’t recorded a public leaderboard ranking for this use yet, so these aren’t ranked by quality.

More free options for chat

Source & method

USD prices from Anthropic's official pricing page (US version, before tax), last verified Oct 17, 2026. A script re-checks that every listed price still appears on that page, and nothing here changes until a person confirms it. Each CAD price shows where it came from and when we checked it; estimates use the Bank of Canada rate (1.4196, Oct 15, 2026). Usage limits, credits and models are quoted from the vendor’s page; “Not published” means the page doesn’t say. Full method