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Anthropic Reportedly Renames Top Claude Max Plan to Claude Ultra and Removes Its 5-Hour Usage Limit

October 30, 2026 at 14:49 EDT

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Anthropic has reportedly renamed its highest-tier Claude Max plan to Claude Ultra and removed the 5-hour usage limit that applied to it, while the 5x tier now carries the plain name Claude Max.

Reported plan change · Anthropic

Claude Max 20x becomes Claude Ultra, and the top tier drops its 5-hour limit

The highest-tier plan is reported to be renamed Claude Ultra, while the 5x plan takes the plain name Claude Max. Pricing, fair-use rules and effective dates have not been confirmed.

20×

Usage multiplier in the former top-tier name, Claude Max 20x

5×

Usage multiplier in the former Claude Max 5x plan name

5-hour usage limits reported for the top tier after the change

Scale of the multiplier names

Each block is one unit of the multiplier in the old plan names. The 20x column is four times the height of the 5x column.

5×

Claude Max 5x

now: Claude Max

20×

Claude Max 20x

now: Claude Ultra

How the plan names map

Before

Claude Max 20x

Includes 5-hour usage limit

→

Reported now

Claude Ultra

No 5-hour usage limit

Before

Claude Max 5x

Lower-priced tier

→

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