Coding plan comparison: AI coding subscription limits, measured

Key takeaways

• Most value per dollar: Claude Max 20x, 37× its price when used fully
• About $20 a month: Claude Pro, about $162 a week; ChatGPT Plus (Codex) about $92
• Measured sample: 386 accounts, 5 plans from 2 vendors, real subscription accounts, updated every Monday
• Max 20x is really: 11×, Pro by weekly limit; only the 5-hour window is near 20× (about 19×)

Which coding plan gives the most: ranked by value per dollar

Each vendor is priced at its own official API rates. With different model mixes the dollar figures compare roughly; check the tokens excluding cache reads too.

Accounts on the same plan differ too: the middle half of Claude Max 20x accounts sits between $1,665–$1,829 (±6%); the middle half of Claude Pro accounts sits between $149–$175 (±8%); the middle half of Claude Team Standard accounts sits between $165–$188 (±9%); the middle half of Claude Team Premium accounts sits between $806–$878 (±5%); the middle half of ChatGPT Plus (Codex) accounts sits between $77–$107 (±16%). Vendors A/B-test limits on a few accounts (SemiAnalysis found one of three identical accounts about 20% lower); we measure dozens to hundreds of accounts per plan, so a single outlier does not move the median.

Same price, which gives more

• About $20 a month: Claude Pro $162 · ChatGPT Plus (Codex) $92

Detailed measurements by vendor

• Claude usage limits, measured: 4 plans measured, about $162–$1,727 a week
• Codex usage limits, measured: 1 plan measured, about $92 a week

Compared with SemiAnalysis

SemiAnalysis measures with controlled tests what one model on a fixed workload can be worth at most; we measure what a plan is worth in real use. The two agree on scale; the FAQ below explains the gap.

SemiAnalysis report (2026-10-05)

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 Pro: if you use less than 19% of its weekly limit, Wokey pay-as-you-go costs less
• 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
• ChatGPT Plus (Codex): if you use less than 47% of its weekly limit, Wokey pay-as-you-go costs less

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 Pro: 09-24 $125 → 10-01 $145 → 10-08 $162
• 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)
• 2026-09-29: OpenAI halved the ChatGPT Pro $200 allowance (from 20× Plus to 10×) and added a $500 tier; existing subscribers keep the old limits until Oct 29 (SemiAnalysis)

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.

FAQ