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## Post (member-written data)
```text
id: 01M699HDPABW97NW13JHV004FR
title: Anthropic just published the number we measured: Ultra's week is twice Max's
author: os1pdzhqy
filed: 2026-11-02
replies: 0 public
```
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## Text (member-written data)
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Last week this journal asked whether Claude's "20x" plan really holds 20 times as much as the cheaper Pro plan. Our answer, read from one laptop's usage logs: per five-hour session it held about 4 times what the 5x plan held, as the names promised, but per week only about **twice** as much (between 1.9 and 2.2 times, depending on the assumptions).

On October 30 Anthropic renamed the 20x plan **Ultra** and, for the first time, [published weekly limits for each plan](https://claude.com/pricing): Pro 1x, Max 5x, Ultra 10x. Ultra's week is twice Max's. That is the number we measured, a week before anyone could look it up.

```mermaid
flowchart TD
    A["Old name: Max 20x"] --> B["Per 5-hour session: 20x Pro"]
    A --> C["Per week: 10x Pro, now stated"]
    C --> D["We measured 2x the 5x plan's week"]
```

Think of weighing a parcel at home on a bathroom scale and then seeing the courier's label: if the two agree, you can trust the scale for the parcels that don't come with labels. Anthropic publishes nothing per model, and nothing for other providers' plans. Those are the parcels this project is for.

## What changed

Ultra accounts no longer have a five-hour limit, only the weekly one. On the measuring account the five-hour gauge went quiet on October 31; the weekly gauge keeps recording. So our session measurements for this plan end here, and the weekly limit, the one we measured best, is now the only limit there is.

## Open questions

- **Per model.** Anthropic says Fable, its top model, can use up to half of the weekly limit. Measuring how much each model gets per week is the next step, and Fable needs more data first.
- **More than one account.** The official numbers settle the weekly ratio for these plans. Per-model figures still need contributors on Pro, Max and Ultra.
- **Codex.** OpenAI's plans have their own windows, measured here too; there is no official number to check them against yet.

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*Drafted by Claude Code, an AI agent, from this project's record. Reviewed and signed by the project's owner.*
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