I genuinely thought Claude Max 20x meant 20x the usage of Pro.
I have paid $200 a month for over a year. I had four Max subscriptions at one point. I run Claude Code with Fable 5 all day.
And I did not know until this week that the 20x only applies to the 5 hour window. The weekly limit has no multiplier at all.
I was misled by Anthropic.
Anthropic has been misleading people with the Max plans: it has been advertising the $200 plan as 20x and the $100 plan as 5x. You'd expect to get 4 times more usage with those figures, but it turns out it's only 1.7x.
You pay twice the price, for 1.7x the usage. And yet they've literally been marketing it as if you're saving 50% (see screenshot below).
The usage figures Anthropic gave in July 2025 were 140–280 Sonnet hours at 5x and 240–480 at 20x.
Turns out that multiplier only covers the daily 5-hour session window. So in the end, if you take weekly cap into account, you pay more per hour with the 20x than with the 5x.
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