Anthropic launches Claude Max plan at $100 and $200/mo - mirrors ChatGPT Pro
Anthropic introduced a two-level Claude Max plan on April 9, 2025: $100/mo for 5x Pro usage and $200/mo for 20x Pro usage. The tier later absorbed Claude Code access exclusively in April 2026.
$100 / mo (5x) or $200 / mo (20x) - Max tiers
Optional premium tier launch with no immediate Pro changes; later became the only path to Claude Code, retroactively reframing the launch.
At launch Max is purely additive; harm only materializes when features are pulled from lower tiers into it.
Establishing a $100-200 ceiling shifted the gravity of feature placement upward across Anthropic's lineup over the following year.
Claude (Anthropic) did not respond inside the 30-day window. This receipt now reads as uncontested in the public record.
Max was positioned as Anthropic's answer to OpenAI's $200 ChatGPT Pro, launched four months earlier.
Max was positioned as Anthropic's answer to OpenAI's $200 ChatGPT Pro, launched four months earlier. Anthropic's own announcement framed it as serving users 'who use Claude regularly and need higher usage limits.' The receipt is benign at launch, but historically significant as the tier that later became the only home for Claude Code after Anthropic removed Claude Code from the $20 Pro plan a year later.
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