Claude Team Premium seat vs Max: usage limits compared

Measured weekly limit by plan

Weekly API value per $1 of monthly price

• Claude Team Standard: $6.9
• Claude Team Premium: $6.7
• Claude Max 20x: $8.6

Subscription or pay-as-you-go

A plan is the best deal when you use all of it. Most people do not: below the share shown here, paying per token costs less than the subscription. When you hit the weekly limit, you can keep using the same model on Wokey.

• Claude Team Standard: if you use less than 22% of its weekly limit, Wokey pay-as-you-go costs less
• Claude Team Premium: if you use less than 23% of its weekly limit, Wokey pay-as-you-go costs less
• Claude Max 20x: if you use less than 18% of its weekly limit, Wokey pay-as-you-go costs less

What uses up your limit

• Cache reads barely count: On Claude plans a cache-read token uses close to none of your limit. Most tokens in a long session are cache reads, so "tokens used" and "limit used" are very different numbers.
• Cache writes ≈ uncached input: New context entering the cache costs about the same as uncached input. Starting fresh sessions or rewriting large context burns the limit fastest.
• Output costs about 4–7× input: Within one model, each output token uses roughly 4–7 times the limit of an input token. Asking for long files or documents in one go drains it noticeably faster.
• Opus 5.5 is cheaper on the limit: Per token, Opus 5.5 uses about 0.6× the limit of other Opus and Fable models. The same work on an older Opus or on Fable empties the week sooner.

From a regression on Claude Pro accounts’ limit changes, 2026-09-28 (R² 0.965). Codex meters differently and is not included.

Week over week

Remeasured every Monday. When a vendor changes its limits, these lines move; changes under about 10% in a single week are mostly sampling noise.

• Claude Team Premium: 09-24 $725 → 10-01 $770 → 10-08 $836
• Claude Max 20x: 09-24 $1,404 → 10-01 $1,510 → 10-08 $1,727

Limit changes

• 2026-09-13: The Claude Code summer promotion that raised weekly limits by 50% ended (r/ClaudeCode)
• 2026-09-22: Opus 5.5 launched and Anthropic raised 5-hour limits on Pro, Max and Team; SemiAnalysis measured Opus 5.5 limits about 20% higher on Max and 50% higher on Pro (Claude on X)

How we measure

• The data comes from limit changes on real subscription accounts behind the Wokey gateway, together with the traffic they served. When an account’s weekly usage rises by at least 10 percentage points, the requests in that span, divided by the rise, give a full week of traffic.
• Each span needs at least 10 requests, with no more than 5% failed or boundary-crossing requests. Spans are first reduced to a median per account, then to a median across accounts, so every account counts once.
• Traffic is priced at each model’s official API rates, including cache reads and 5-minute and 1-hour cache writes. The dollar figure means "what this traffic would cost on the official API"; it is not the unit the vendor meters in.
• Every Monday after 04:00 UTC the past 7 days are remeasured. A plan is published once at least 5 accounts are measured. If a value moves more than 15% from the previous week, it is checked by hand before the page updates.
• The limit is worth more or less depending on the model mix: the same limit spent on a different main model converts to a different API value. Each plan lists its model mix.

These are measured estimates, not figures published by the vendors. Vendors can change limits at any time, and use outside the gateway or delayed metering can shift the results.

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