Claude Code pricing: plans and API costs, November 2026

The plans side by side

These are the individual plans as Anthropic's pricing page listed them on 12 November 2026. Prices are in US dollars and, as the page says, do not include tax.

The annual price for Pro is the page's own rounding: $200 billed up front works out a little under $17 a month. Max and Ultra are listed with a monthly billing cycle only.

Team and Enterprise

Anthropic's help centre says Claude Code is included with every Team plan seat, that Premium seats give more usage, and that new and self-serve Enterprise plans include it with the single Enterprise seat. Each member's usage draws from a per-seat allowance on a rolling five-hour window and a weekly window, shared with Claude chat and Cowork.

The seat prices sit behind a separate tab on the pricing page that our reading on 12 November 2026 did not return, so we give no Team or Enterprise price here. On a usage-based Enterprise plan there are no per-seat limits: usage is billed at API rates.

Paying by API tokens instead

Claude Code also runs on an API key from the Claude Console, billed per token with no subscription. These are the four models at the top of Anthropic's API pricing table, per million tokens (MTok). Older models are still listed below them at other prices.

Haiku 5.5 is the only one priced by prompt length. The other three include the full 1M token context window at the standard rate. The same page lists separate, lower prices for cached input and a 50 percent discount for batch processing.

What does that add up to? Anthropic's Claude Code documentation gives one figure: across enterprise deployments the average is around $13 per developer per active day and $150-250 per developer per month, and below $30 per active day for 90% of users. It adds that costs vary widely with the model, the size of the codebase and whether you run several instances or automation.

Which option fits whom

• Solo developer: Pro is the lowest price that includes Claude Code, $20 a month or $200 for a year. If you keep hitting the limit, Max costs five times as much for what the page calls 5x Pro usage. You can also turn on usage credits to keep working past a plan's limit, with a monthly spend limit you set.
• Small team: five developers on individual Max plans pay $500 a month, but individual plans have no central billing or administration. Those are Team and Enterprise features, so ask for the seat prices before you decide. Anthropic's own advice for estimating API spend is to start with a small pilot group and measure.
• Agency billing clients: a subscription is a flat fee, and usage inside a seat allowance is not metered in dollars, so it gives you no cost per client. The API does: every session has a token cost, and workspace spend limits and per-user reports are in the Claude Console.

What the page does not tell you

• How much work a plan covers. The limits are relative ("more usage than Free", "5x Pro", "10x Pro"), never a number of messages, tokens or hours. The page says how fast you reach a limit depends on the model, the length of your chats and the size of your files.
• What usage credits cost per token on a subscription. The pages we read say how to turn them on and cap them, not the rate.
• Whether the monthly API credits on Max and Ultra can pay for Claude Code. The footnote on those lines was not in the text we read. For Team plans the help centre says monthly API credits cannot be used in Claude Code or the Claude apps.
• Prices outside the US, and tax. The page shows dollar prices before tax and says prices and plans can change at Anthropic's discretion.

Keeping track of what agent work costs per task

Inside Claude Code, the /usage command shows a session's total cost and token counts. The dollar figure is an estimate computed locally from token counts at list price, and for Pro, Max and Ultra subscribers it is not what they are billed. That answers what one session cost. It does not tell you what a task or a client cost over a month.

Hourtick does not sell Claude and does not change what you pay Anthropic. It is a time tracker where an agent such as Claude Code works on a task and reports its own time and cost on it, next to the hours people log. The numbers are what the agent reports, so they are as good as that report. What you get is cost per task, project and client, which a flat subscription invoice cannot show.