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How much does Claude Code cost?

Claude Code pricing checked in November 2026: which Claude plans include it, how usage limits work, when API billing makes more sense, and how to choose a plan.

Claude Code is included in Claude's paid plans. On 9 November 2026, Pro cost 17 dollars a month billed annually or 20 monthly, Max started at 100 dollars a month, Team seats started at 20 dollars per user billed annually, and Enterprise cost 20 dollars per seat plus API-rate usage. It can also be billed per token through the API.

Published 9 November 2026 · Last updated 9 November 2026

By Michal Měřínský. Audit methodology.

Plans that include Claude Code

Anthropic's pricing page on 9 November 2026:

Free: does not include Claude Code.
Pro: 17 dollars a month billed annually, 20 dollars monthly.
Max: 100 dollars a month. Ultra: 200 dollars a month, with higher weekly usage.
Team: Standard seats at 20 dollars per user a month billed annually, 25 monthly, and Premium seats at 100 dollars billed annually, 125 monthly, with five times Standard usage.
Enterprise: 20 dollars per seat a month billed annually, with a 20-seat minimum, plus usage at API rates.

How usage works

On subscription plans, Claude Code and chat draw on the same usage limits. Heavy coding sessions use more, especially with larger models and long contexts. When you reach a limit, you wait for it to reset, upgrade, or switch to pay-as-you-go API credits through a Claude Console account.

Subscription or API?

Subscription: predictable monthly cost, best for a person coding daily.
API: pay per token, subject to account rate and spending limits, best for automation, occasional use, or running Claude Code in CI. API prices are per model, with Claude Sonnet 5.5 at 2 dollars input and 10 dollars output per million tokens on 9 November 2026.

Long agent sessions re-read a lot of context. Clear or compact the conversation between unrelated tasks to use less.

Choosing a plan

Trying it or a few sessions a week: Pro.
Daily development, long sessions: Max.
A team that needs admin controls and shared billing: Team.
Organizations with security, compliance and usage-based billing needs: Enterprise.

Comparing with alternatives

Codex is included in ChatGPT plans from Free upward. Cursor and Devin Desktop are editors with their own plans. Many developers combine a subscription agent with an editor they already pay for.

What a scan can and cannot tell you

WebAuditOS checks the sites you ship, not your plan: security headers, console errors, duplicate titles and the other deployed basics.

Every plan writes code at the same speed it can introduce regressions. Scan each release regardless of tier.

Short answers

Is Claude Code included in Claude Pro? Yes, as of 9 November 2026.

Is Claude Code free? No. The free Claude plan does not include it.

Is Max worth it? For daily, long coding sessions it gives much more usage than Pro.

Can I use Claude Code with an API key? Yes, billed per token through the Claude Console.

In the product

The checks this maps to

Every check named here runs on every scan, on every plan - what a plan changes is how many pages are crawled, how long the history is kept and what you can do with the result. These are the ids the findings carry, so you can match a line in a report to the explanation above.

sec.headers.csp - Content-Security-Policy header
tech.console-errors - No JavaScript errors in the console
seo.title.unique - Titles are unique across pages

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