Anthropic drops the 5-hour session limit on Claude's $200 Ultra plan

Verified Ultra accounts on Claude's $200 plan no longer hit the rolling five-hour session limit. Pro and Max users still have it. The weekly limit stays for every plan. Anthropic published the change on its own support site.

The relevant article is the one on using Claude Code with the Pro, Max or Ultra plan. The company writes there: "Pro and Max plans have a five-hour session limit and a weekly limit." The next sentence reads: "Ultra plans have a weekly limit." Anthropic adds: "Verified Ultra accounts don't have a five-hour session limit." The pricing page carries a matching note. "No 5-hour limit" has a star next to it. The star reads "No 5-hour limit for verified accounts."

What the three plans give you now

Pro is $20 a month and sets the baseline. Anthropic calls its usage limit "1x" every five hours and every week. Max is $100 a month at 5x Pro usage every five hours and every week. Ultra is $200 a month, with no five-hour limit and 10x Pro usage every week. Ultra also includes $200 a month in API credits for the Claude Platform. All three plans share one usage counter across the Claude app and Claude Code.

The weekly limit is the only cap left on Ultra. Max accounts get a weekly limit, and a separate weekly limit for Fable at up to half the main budget. Fable is Anthropic's creative feature. Ultra also has the separate Fable limit. Max and Ultra get a $100 or $200 monthly API credit on top. Anthropic says that credit cannot be used in Claude Code or the Claude apps.

What "verified" means and when a user gets it

Anthropic does not define the verification check on the support page. It writes only that the five-hour limit is removed for verified Ultra accounts. The company adds: "It's rolling out gradually, so it may not be available on your account yet."

A verified Ultra account can still carry a temporary limit. If it does, Anthropic says the wrap-up allowance works like it does on Max until the limit is removed.

The wrap-up allowance is Anthropic's own softener on the five-hour wall. When Claude Code hits the session limit mid-response, the terminal shows "Usage limit reached · wrapping up". The model keeps writing briefly to finish the step in progress. Anthropic says the wrap-up counts against the weekly budget. It is capped. It does not carry over to the next message. On Pro it fires once a week. On Max it fires each time the five-hour limit is reached, inside the weekly budget. On a verified Ultra account the wrap-up does not apply, because the session limit is not there.

A Claude Code session that keeps working through long tasks can now continue on Ultra. The price is the plan tier and the weekly cap behind it. The thing to confirm before paying for Ultra is that your own account is in the verified group. The Claude Code /status command prints the remaining allocation on any plan, Anthropic says.

Source

• Use Claude Code with your Pro, Max, or Ultra plan, Anthropic support.
• Claude pricing page, Anthropic.
• Anthropic just removed one of Claude's biggest usage limits, but not for everyone, The New Stack.