Claude Renames Max 20x to Ultra: Price Unchanged, Verified Ultra Accounts First to Have 5-Hour Limit Removed, Comments Start Debating 10x vs. 20x

Claude changed its plan names. On October 30, Anthropic announced that Max 5x would be called Max and Max 20x would be called Ultra. Prices are unchanged: Max is still $100/month, and Ultra is still $200/month. Existing subscribers do not need to do anything.

The more practical change in the announcement is limits. Verified Ultra accounts are beginning to have the 5-hour limit removed, starting with most existing subscribers. New accounts still have temporary limits before verification; the company says this is to prevent fraud and abuse. An email will be sent once verification is complete. Weekly limits remain unchanged. The pricing page is here: http://claude.com/pricing

The pricing page lays out the two tiers more clearly. Max is 5x Pro usage, calculated both per 5 hours and per week; Ultra has no 5-hour limit for verified accounts and is 10x Pro usage per week. API credits are also separate: Max is $100 per month, and Ultra is $200 per month. With the old name’s 20x sitting next to the pricing page’s 10x, the comments naturally started doing the math.

One user asked directly whether it is 10x or 20x.

Some also treated the change as a side effect of Fable 5.5. One reply said Fable 5.5 burns through the 5-hour quota too quickly, and the only way around it is to move up to the $200 tier. That is a user's judgment, not an official explanation. Officially, the company only mentioned the rename and the removal of the limit.

The comment section was livelier than the announcement. Some thought an Ultra 500 plan would be launched.

Another reply just posted an image.

Someone summed it up with a meme: the code is safe.

Someone just posted a TLDR.

Someone described the $200 tier as “same 200 bucks, more dignity.”

Some finally felt they could use Claude for more than 5 hours.

In a video reply, someone celebrated the removal of the 5-hour limit while urging the release of Fable 5.5.

Others thought the algorithm was simpler after removing the 5-hour rate limit.

Still others complained by putting the new plan names next to the old multipliers.

The rename itself is not complicated. “Max” and “Ultra” are shorter, the price has not changed, and the 5-hour limit is being lifted first for verified Ultra. What is complicated is the multiplier behind the name: after Max 20x was renamed Ultra, the pricing page says 10x Pro per week. The company says the weekly limit is unchanged, and some in the community have already turned this into a math problem. The name got shorter; the math did not get simpler. For heavy users, the plan name is just a label. Verification status, weekly limits, and API credits are what show up on the bill.