Anthropic renames Claude Max 5x and Max 20x to Max and Ultra…

The original Max 5x and Max 20x have officially been renamed, becoming Max and Ultra respectively.

The prices haven't changed, though—still $100 and $200 per month.

But this time, Ultra users on the $200 tier are also getting a real, tangible change—

The 5-hour usage limit has been removed.

According to the official explanation, Ultra users who meet the verification requirements, starting today—

can use Claude continuously within their weekly quota, and finally no longer be bottlenecked by the 5-hour window.

Of course, most existing Ultra subscribers have already begun to receive this adjustment, while new accounts need to wait for verification, so you can just wait a bit~

One point needs to be emphasized: the weekly usage quota remains unchanged, still 10 times that of Pro users.

Do you all think this is sincere enough?

Anyway, in the comments section... clearly someone who just doubled their own Plus users' quota yesterday is already not buying it:

So the only solution is to pay $200 for Ultra. (Makes sense.)

For Max 5x users, this time it's mainly a name simplification; the price and the original usage rules have not changed noticeably.

The real focus falls on the new Ultra users, formerly Max 20x. According to the latest explanation just released by the official side, Ultra subscribers can get—

Put in the most straightforward, least roundabout way, after Ultra removes the 5-hour limit this time, the biggest benefit is—

users who have completed verification can use their weekly quota at their own pace.

Of course, this benefit also comes with a "small threshold" for us users.

A Company also said that most existing Ultra users have already begun to have the limit lifted one after another, while new users need to first pass account verification.

Verification is completed automatically based on information such as the account and payment history, so we don't need to do anything extra—just wait for the official email notification.

As for how to know whether you've successfully been "unblocked"—

Open Claude's Settings → Usage. If you find that the familiar 5-hour usage progress bar has disappeared, then congratulations, the unblocking was successful.

I figure many friends are thinking the same thing as me.

The subscription originally called Max 20x is now directly renamed Ultra, so how did the 20x in the name suddenly disappear!!!

In response, Mike Overell, who is in charge of the Claude subscription product at Anthropic, specifically posted an explanation.

We all know that the "20x" in the original Max 20x referred to the usage quota within a single 5-hour window being 20 times that of Pro users.

Later, Anthropic added a weekly quota limit, and then the problem came—

The 5-hour quota is 20 times, but the weekly quota is only 10 times that of Pro.

Many users paid $200, originally thinking they could enjoy a 20x quota, only to discover after using it for a while that the weekly quota had another calculation method.

Mike Overell also admitted that this naming approach easily causes misunderstanding, and apologized for the previous communication problems.

So this renaming to Ultra can also be seen as putting a long-unclear "quota old account" back on the table.

Moreover, Claude's quota controversy has precedents.

In June this year, The Wall Street Journal reported that a consumer had filed a lawsuit over Anthropic's high-priced subscription limits, accusing the relevant product's quota advertising of being misleading.

From this perspective, this change can also be regarded as a response to long-term user feedback~

But the problem is, although the rules are transparent and the quota has indeed changed, the timing of your news is still a bit awkward.

Because you should know that just yesterday, neighboring OpenAI's Tibo godfather had just doubled the quota for Pro users...

So here comes the question.

Will everyone buy into Claude's wave of "renaming" plus "lifting limits"?