Judge rules Anthropic must face claims its $200 Claude Max plan delivers ~6x weekly usage, not advertised 20x
IntCyberDigest · x · 2026-11-08
A US judge (Alex Tse) ruled that Anthropic must face claims it misleadingly advertised its $200/month Claude Max plan as "20x more usage than Pro" when it delivers only about 6x per week.
- The multiplier applies per five-hour session, but weekly caps don't scale with it — a Max subscriber can run out for the week before a Pro user does
- By the plaintiffs' math on Sonnet 4, the $100 Max 5x plan gets only 3.5x Pro's weekly usage
- Judge Tse found the ads plausibly misleading, noting the "per session" fine print sat two hyperlinks away from the sales pages
Related event: Judge Rules Anthropic Must Face Lawsuit Over Misleading Claude Max Claims(2 posts)→
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