Pick your Claude plan.

Max 5x is not a discount. Five times the price buys five times the usage, so a share still costs 18€. You pay for not waiting.

Max 20x is the only tier that gets cheaper, per 5-hour session: 9€ a share instead of 18€. It earns its price once Max 5x stops you most days.

Per week the gap is smaller. Anthropic publishes no weekly numbers for any plan. Classmethod measured three accounts in August 2026 and put the Max 20x weekly limit at about 3.5 times Max 5x, not 4 (range 3.1 to 3.9). If the weekly limit is what stops you, Max 20x saves you about 43% per unit of usage, not half. How much more weekly room Max 5x has over Pro is not published or measured anywhere I could find.

Paid plans carry that weekly limit across all models, and it resets at a fixed time for your account. The picker still treats hitting it every week as a reason to move up one tier, just with smaller expectations.

Claude Code needs a paid plan. On Pro and Max, /usage inside Claude Code shows the same limits as the settings page.

Prices for Germany, excl. VAT, checked 14 October 2026 on claude.com/pricing and in the claude.ai plan settings. Session multiples from Anthropic's Max plan help article. Weekly ratio from Classmethod's measurement (Japanese, 20 August 2026, three accounts, taken during a temporary 50% weekly boost, an estimate, not an official limit). Anthropic publishes no message counts, so this picker uses none.