A gold membership card gets a fresh coat of gold from a brush, while a small clock-shaped padlock falls away from it.

Two membership cards side by side: the gold one wears only a loose weekly calendar ring, while a silver card is still bound by both a calendar ring and a small clock-shaped padlock.

The gold card sits beside a bag of tokens twice the size of the silver card's bag, as members ride a moving walkway from an old door to a new one.

A short clock-face ruler and a long weekly calendar lie next to each other on a desk, with a judge's gavel resting beside them.

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Afternoon Brief · October 30th 2026

Anthropic renames its $200 plan Ultra and drops the five-hour limit for verified accounts

Claude's $200-a-month Max 20x plan is now called Ultra, and verified Ultra accounts no longer have the rolling five-hour usage window. Weekly usage stays at 10x Pro, and new accounts keep a temporary five-hour cap until they are verified. The $100 Max 5x plan is now just Max and keeps both limits. Ultra also carries $200 a month of Claude Platform API credit, against $100 on Max. Prices are unchanged and subscribers move over automatically. The old "20x" described the five-hour window, while weekly usage was always 10x Pro, which is the confusion a class action filed in September over Max limits turned on. SourcesA C

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This story ran in the Afternoon Brief of October 30th 2026.

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