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# In the News: October 31, 2026 (Morning)


Anthropic's help pages now call its $200 consumer plan Ultra and say verified accounts have no five-hour limit. Whether the weekly allowance dropped is disputed, and the pages do not settle it.

## 1. Anthropic renames Max 20x to Ultra and drops the five-hour limit for verified accounts

**[What is the Ultra plan?](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/17728952-what-is-the-ultra-plan)** · Anthropic · Claude Help Center, updated October 31, 2026

The help article says "The Max 20x plan is now called the Ultra plan." Existing subscribers move over automatically at no price change. Ultra costs $200 a month and includes Claude Code. The article gives it 10 times the Pro plan's usage every week, with no five-hour limit for verified accounts; accounts not yet verified get a temporary one. The weekly cap applies across all models, there is a separate weekly cap for Fable, and Anthropic reserves the right to add other limits. The [pricing page](https://claude.com/pricing) lists $200 a month in API credits for Ultra, up from $100 on Max. Max stays at $100 with 5x Pro usage every five hours and every week.

Neither page states what the weekly figure was before the rename. A [Hacker News submission](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314301) of the pricing page was titled as a cut from 20x to 10x. A commenter, abc42, replied that the old 20x referred to the five-hour limit, so the weekly limit is unchanged and only the naming differs. That is one commenter's reading, and the thread had 5 points and 2 comments when we read it on Saturday morning.

**Why it matters:** For anyone running Claude Code on the top consumer plan, a verified account no longer hits a five-hour window during a long unattended run. The weekly cap, a separate Fable cap and any additional limits still apply. These pages do not establish whether the weekly allowance changed from the old Max 20x plan.