Understand Claude Pricing

Claude Code offers a flexible, dual-path pricing model designed to accommodate both individual power users and high-scale enterprise teams. You can access the tool through a fixed-rate subscription (such as the Pro or Max plans), which provides a generous recurring allocation of messages shared across the web interface and the terminal, making costs predictable for daily development. Alternatively, you can use a pay-as-you-go API model, where you are billed based on the total number of "tokens" (small units of text) processed in each interaction.