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Claude

by Anthropic

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Entry price
$20/mo (US)1
Free tier
$0, with usage described relatively, never in a count2

Anthropic's assistant, used most often for long documents and careful reasoning. It gets picked for the jobs where the input is large and the answer has to survive being checked by somebody who knows the subject.

For this kind of work, the limit matters more than the monthly price

A subscription price tells you what the month costs. It does not tell you how much you can put through it in that month, and when the work is long documents rather than short questions, the second number is the one that decides whether the subscription was worth buying. Anthropic prints the first and not the second.

The Pro card leads with the annual rate and prints the monthly one beside it in the same sentence, so the headline figure on that card is the one you get for paying twelve months up front. The number at the top of this profile is the monthly one. That is the convention this site uses everywhere, because it is what you pay if you want to leave after a month.

The free plan is priced and not measured. Its card carries a price, one line saying it is free for everyone, and a list of what you can do with it. What it does not carry is a number: no usage figure appears on it anywhere. That is a fact about the card and not about the plan, because a cap you cannot see is not a cap that is absent, and our methodology is deliberate about the difference.

ChatGPT and Gemini are the other assistants in this category. For the same monthly-price comparison, see Claude in the three-assistant entry-price ranking, with every figure sourced and dated. If the question is one head to head, the Claude versus Gemini comparison explains what each entry price is actually a subscription to. The Claude review reads the usage model, the five-hour window and the weekly limits off the same pages with the same dates.

Where these numbers came from

Every figure above is the vendor's own published number. Each row names the document it was read from and the day a human opened it.

Source ledger: every claim on this page with its document and the date it was checked
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1Entry price$20/mo (US)Claude help, What is the Pro planSep 22, 2026
2Free tier$0, with usage described relatively, never in a countClaude pricing page, Free plan card and usage limits FAQSep 22, 2026