Claude Code

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Open source no BYOK yes Sub-agents yes MCP client

Headless Cap strictness 5h + weekly rolling ~$20 plan cap_risk high

Unconfirmed / Community Reported: elevated complaints. Steady stream of X posts (about 190-250 a day Oct 21-27 in our count query) reporting usage limits draining faster than before; some users claim the weekly limit roughly halved. Community reported, unconfirmed. example post Checked 2026-10-28. Not part of the sourced changelog.

Plans and limits

Plan	Price /mo	Limits	Source
Free	$0	No Claude Code on Free	source 2026-10-20
Pro	$20 ($17 annual)	Rolling 5-hour session window + weekly limit, shared with claude.ai; no fixed message count	source 2026-10-20
Max 5x	$100	5x Pro usage per 5-hour session + weekly limit; includes $100/mo API credits (not usable for interactive Claude Code)	source 2026-10-20
Max 20x	$200	20x Pro usage per 5-hour session + weekly limit; includes $200/mo API credits	source 2026-10-20

Models

Claude (Fable, Opus, Sonnet, Haiku)

Cost per benchmark task: $3.33 (Sonnet 5.5 (xhigh), AA Coding Agent Index v1.5, source, retrieved 2026-10-05).

Changelog

2026-10-26 [feature]

Claude Code 2.1.311: ultrathink now runs its turn at xhigh effort on Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, Haiku 5.5 and Fable 5.1 via Anthropic's API, and standard-context sessions over 200K tokens now compact instead of stopping with 'Usage credits required for 1M context'. source
2026-10-19 [limit]

Claude Code 2.1.304 warns Pro and Max users when resuming an inactive conversation would use a noticeable share of the 5-hour usage limit, offering to start a new conversation instead. source
2026-10-14 [feature]

Claude Code 2.1.299 waits 300s instead of 180s for a stream through a custom base URL. source
2026-10-07 [price]

Max and Team plans now include monthly API credits ($100 Max 5x, $200 Max 20x); plan prices and usage limits unchanged. source
2026-10-07 [model]

Claude Code 2.1.293 makes Haiku 5.5 the default Haiku on the API ($0.10/$0.50 per 1M tokens; $0.50/$2.50 on prompts over 100K). source
2026-10-01 [limit]

Claude Code 2.1.287 defaults Opus 4.7+ and Fable to a 1M-token context on Bedrock, Vertex, Foundry and the Claude apps gateway; CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_1M_CONTEXT=1 keeps 200K. source