By Claude Code pricing by country and currency
Claude Code is priced at 20 USD in the US and in local currency where Anthropic supports it. Here is how region, tax and your card change what you pay.
What Claude Code costs outside the US
Anthropic's headline price for Claude Code is a US price. Its own Pro plan help page puts it this way: "The Pro plan is available for $20 per month (US), with pricing in your local currency where supported. Monthly pricing varies by region, and some regions include applicable taxes in the displayed price while others add tax at checkout." So the price by country is not one dollar figure everywhere. It is your region's price, in your local currency where Anthropic supports one, plus whatever your tax adds. If the charge is in a foreign currency, your card adds its own costs on top.
Regional list prices do exist. When Claude launched in Europe, Anthropic's announcement of May 14, 2024 set Claude Pro at "€18 + VAT per month (or local currency equivalent)" and Team at "€28 + VAT per user per month (or local currency equivalent), with a minimum of 5 seats". The pricing page still shows US dollar figures and states in one line: "Prices shown don't include applicable tax."
You can look your own price up. Anthropic's instruction is: "Visit claude.ai/upgrade or check your mobile app store for current pricing in your region." What follows is how the pieces stack up, the arithmetic for anyone billed in US dollars, the two traps that cost people money (a business tax number, and the mobile app stores), and the lines to look for on your own statement.
The list prices you compute from
The data behind this chart
[
{
"plan": "Pro, billed monthly",
"usd_per_month": "20.00"
},
{
"plan": "Pro, billed annually",
"usd_per_month": "17.00"
},
{
"plan": "Team, monthly, per seat",
"usd_per_month": "25.00"
},
{
"plan": "Team, annual, per seat",
"usd_per_month": "20.00"
},
{
"plan": "Max",
"usd_per_month": "100.00"
},
{
"plan": "Ultra",
"usd_per_month": "200.00"
}
]In the US, Pro costs 20.00 USD per month billed monthly, or 17.00 USD per month if you pay for the year up front. Max costs 100.00 USD and Ultra costs 200.00 USD per month. Outside the US, treat these as the reference point and check claude.ai/upgrade for the figure your region is offered. The two Team rows are quoted per seat, so a company multiplies the tax and the conversion below by its headcount, and the point where that stops beating per-token billing is worked out in seats measured against API spend. Every paid tier includes Claude Code, with one exception: on older Enterprise plans only some seat types carry it, so check your seat type before you count on it. The Free plan does not: as of October 31, 2026 the pricing page leaves Claude Code off the Free tier, and Claude Code's own setup docs state that "The free claude.ai plan does not include Claude Code access." If you are already on Pro and unsure whether the terminal tool is part of what you pay for, Claude Code's place on the Pro plan covers what shares your usage window and when an attached API key quietly bills you instead. For what each tier actually buys you, read what Claude Code costs on each plan and the gap between Max at 100 and Ultra at 200. Students have their own options, covered in Claude pricing for students.
What actually lands on your card
Four things stack up, in this order:
- The plan's price for your region, in US dollars or in your local currency where Anthropic supports it.
- Local consumption tax, based on your billing address. Depending on the region, it is either already inside the displayed price or added at checkout.
- The exchange rate your card network or bank applies to the charge, if you are billed in a currency other than your card's.
- Your card issuer's foreign transaction fee, if your card has one.
The order matters. Anthropic works out the tax before your bank touches anything: "Your billing address determines how taxes are calculated on your Claude purchases," and on Pro, Max, Ultra and self-serve plans that address follows your payment method's. If you are billed in USD, the invoice is a single USD figure with the tax already on it, and your bank converts that one figure. In that case a change in your local tax rate changes the USD invoice, while a fall in your currency changes only the local total. If you are billed in your own currency, steps 3 and 4 largely drop away for the subscription itself. Japan shows that the currencies can also mix. Since April 1, 2026 Anthropic adds 10 percent JCT for Japanese customers and the billing currency stays as it was, but "The JCT amount will be shown in Japanese Yen (JPY) on your Tax Qualified Invoice."
You can see both halves on two documents. Anthropic emails a receipt with the subject line "Your receipt from Anthropic", and that receipt carries the amount in your billing currency and the tax line. Your card statement carries the amount in your card's currency, and often a second small line beside it for the foreign transaction fee. When the two documents disagree, the difference is your bank, not the seller.
The exchange rate is your bank's, not Anthropic's
Check your receipt first, because Anthropic does not bill everyone in USD. Web pricing is offered "in your local currency where supported", and Anthropic's invoices article notes that "Some subscribers pay their subscriptions using a different currency than the currency (or currencies) new subscribers would be offered in their region." To move an existing subscription to your region's currency, you cancel, wait for the billing term to end, and subscribe again. Switching your Claude billing currency covers this step by step.
If your receipt is in USD, no conversion happens on Anthropic's side. Your card network or issuing bank converts the charge under your card's terms. Your issuing bank may then add a foreign transaction fee on top of that rate. Published examples include HSBC UK's 2.99 percent non-sterling transaction fee and Capital One's 0 percent foreign transaction fee on its US-issued credit cards. This is the one number in this guide that only your bank can tell you, so read your card's terms rather than guessing.
One trap is worth knowing because it surprises people with dollar accounts. Many issuers apply the fee to the cross-border flag on the transaction, not to the currency conversion. A card denominated in USD but issued outside the US can still be charged the fee, because the merchant sits abroad. For the same reason, some cards charge the fee even on a charge in your own currency. If you expected nothing extra and see a small second line, that is usually the reason.
The rate date depends on your card's terms: Mastercard generally uses the authorization date and time, with the processing date as a fallback. A fixed USD subscription therefore arrives as a slightly different local amount each month. That is normal, and it is not a price change.
Consumption tax: VAT, GST and HST
Most countries now tax foreign digital services where the customer is, not where the seller is. VAT (value added tax), GST (goods and services tax) and HST (harmonised sales tax, used by several Canadian provinces) are the same idea under different names: a percentage added to the sale, collected by the seller, paid to your government.
The input is your billing address. Anthropic's help centre states that your billing address determines how taxes are calculated, and that it "should represent the primary place of business receiving the product". Use the address that represents that location, and keep your billing details accurate for your accountant.
The data behind this chart
[
{
"label": "Norway",
"tax_rate_pct": 25,
"pro_usd_after_tax": "25.00"
},
{
"label": "Ireland",
"tax_rate_pct": 23,
"pro_usd_after_tax": "24.60"
},
{
"label": "United Kingdom",
"tax_rate_pct": 20,
"pro_usd_after_tax": "24.00"
},
{
"label": "Germany",
"tax_rate_pct": 19,
"pro_usd_after_tax": "23.80"
},
{
"label": "India",
"tax_rate_pct": 18,
"pro_usd_after_tax": "23.60"
},
{
"label": "Canada, Ontario",
"tax_rate_pct": 13,
"pro_usd_after_tax": "22.60"
},
{
"label": "Australia",
"tax_rate_pct": 10,
"pro_usd_after_tax": "22.00"
},
{
"label": "Japan",
"tax_rate_pct": 10,
"pro_usd_after_tax": "22.00"
},
{
"label": "Singapore",
"tax_rate_pct": 9,
"pro_usd_after_tax": "21.80"
},
{
"label": "Canada, Alberta",
"tax_rate_pct": 5,
"pro_usd_after_tax": "21.00"
}
]Those are standard statutory rates as of October 2026, applied to the US Pro list price. The USD column is what an account billed at that price would be invoiced. Across the 10 places shown the rate runs from 25 percent in Norway down to 5 percent in Alberta, so the same plan is invoiced at 25.00 USD in one and 21.00 USD in the other. If your region has its own local price, apply the rate to that price instead. If your displayed price already includes tax, do not add it a second time. Rates change by legislation, so treat that column as a starting point and confirm your own before you budget on it.
Two places need extra words. The United States has no federal VAT, and whether a state taxes software as a service varies by state, so a US reader may see nothing added or may see a few percent. Canada is not one rate either: the federal GST is 5 percent, and provinces that harmonised their sales tax charge more, which is why Ontario at 13 percent and Alberta at 5 percent both appear above.
Brazil deserves its own paragraph, because it is mid-reform. The new CBS and IBS taxes replace the older PIS, Cofins, ICMS and ISS charges, and 2026 is a test year: the rates appear on tax documents at 0.9 percent CBS and 0.1 percent IBS, and taxpayers that meet the new reporting obligations are exempt from paying them. CBS collection begins in 2027 at a rate reduced by 0.1 percentage point for 2027–2028. What a Brazilian card holder pays on a foreign currency charge today is IOF (imposto sobre operações financeiras, the tax on financial operations), which a federal decree of May 2025 set at 3.5 percent on foreign currency card purchases (Decreto 12.466, replaced in June 2025 by Decreto 12.499 at the same rate). IOF arrives as its own line on the card statement, separate from the purchase, and it sits on top of whatever spread the card already added. The local detail is in what Claude Pro costs in Brazil.
Worked example: one Pro plan in four places
Start from the Pro plan at 20.00 USD list, billed monthly, for an account billed in USD. If claude.ai/upgrade shows you a local price, use that figure in place of the USD list price.
In Germany, VAT at 19 percent makes the invoice 23.80 USD. Your bank converts that figure to euros at the network rate and may add its fee. An account offered euro pricing starts from the euro price instead. At the €18 plus VAT that Anthropic announced in May 2024, German VAT makes it €21.42, with no conversion. Confirm today's euro figure at claude.ai/upgrade before you rely on it.
In India, GST at 18 percent makes the invoice 23.60 USD, converted to rupees the same way.
In Ontario, HST at 13 percent makes the invoice 22.60 USD.
In Brazil, if your USD invoice has no consumption tax added, it stays at 20.00 USD, and the additions come from the bank instead: IOF at 3.5 percent, the rate set by decree in May 2025, plus the card's own spread.
Run your own number using the rate your bank actually used, which you can read off last month's statement.
python3 - <<'EOF'
usd = 20.00 # list price of the plan you want
tax = 0.19 # your local rate as a decimal, 0 if none applies
fx = 1.00 # units of your currency per USD, taken from your own statement
fee = 0.0295 # your card's foreign transaction fee as a decimal, 0 if none
print(f'invoiced by Anthropic, USD: {usd * (1 + tax):.2f}')
print(f'charged by your bank: {usd * (1 + tax) * fx * (1 + fee):.2f}')
EOFWith the values as written the script prints 23.80 and 24.50. Replace fx with the rate from your statement and both lines become your real numbers. If your receipt is already in your own currency, change four values. Put that price in usd and leave fx at 1. Set tax to 0 if the displayed price already includes tax. Set fee to 0 unless your card charges a cross-border fee. If the second line misses your statement by more than a cent or two, check the rate, fee and rounding your card actually used. Once you have that local figure, the decision is whether it buys back more than it costs, which is the payback arithmetic at your own hourly rate.
Your VAT number changes the bill, if you have one
A registered business can often stop being charged the tax at all. In the EU, giving a valid VAT number to a supplier outside the EU shifts the liability to you under the reverse charge: the invoice shows 0 percent VAT and you account for the tax on your own return. In Canada, a business registered for GST/HST that supplies its number is not charged by a non-resident supplier under the simplified registration regime; self-assessment generally applies if the imported service is used less than 90 percent in commercial activities. In India, a business holding a GSTIN handles OIDAR purchases (online information and database access or retrieval, the category these subscriptions fall into) through reverse charge in the same way.
To add the number, log in, click your initials or name in the lower left corner and choose Settings, then open Billing. Click "Update" next to your payment method. The payment form has a field for your tax or VAT ID. Save it there.
Do this before your first charge, because the help centre is explicit: "Updates to your billing details will only apply to future billing cycles. Previously completed invoices cannot be updated retroactively." A month you already paid stays taxed as invoiced, so do not count on getting that tax back, and ask your accountant before you plan around it.
If you are an individual with no tax registration, none of this applies to you. You pay the applicable tax.
Mobile app stores price differently
The Max plan help page carries a line worth reading twice: "This price is for web subscriptions only. Mobile pricing may vary depending on your app platform." In-app prices are set inside each store's own pricing system, which on Apple means picking from fixed local-currency price points, and the stores act as the seller in many countries, so both the tax handling and the invoice come from the store. The local number can land above or below Anthropic's own web price for your region.
Local currency is not limited to the stores, though. Anthropic's web pricing is also offered "in your local currency where supported", and its help pages point to both "claude.ai/upgrade or ... your mobile app store for current pricing in your region." Subscribe on the web if you want Anthropic's own price for your region and a tax ID field on the invoice. Web subscriptions accept credit or debit cards only. This matters less for Claude Code, which runs in a terminal, though it does come up for people who drive Claude Code from a phone over SSH.
The API is billed in USD, so compare in one currency
Pay-as-you-go API usage is priced per token in USD. If your subscription is billed in USD too, your currency multiplies the subscription and the API bill by the same factor, so it does not tilt the decision between them. If your subscription is billed at a local price in your own currency, convert your API estimate at today's rate before you compare, so both sides are in the same currency. Max includes $100 a month in API credits and Ultra includes $200; eligible subscribers claim them by linking a Console organization, and unused credits expire each billing cycle. These credits do not cover interactive Claude Code or extra usage in Claude Code. Either way the choice still turns mainly on how much you use, which is the whole of the API measured against a subscription for your usage, and the per-token side is in what a million tokens costs.
One genuine difference shows up abroad. A subscription is a fixed number you can budget a year ahead. API spend is variable, so your tax rate and your exchange rate multiply a figure you do not control in advance. Put a spend cap in place before the first busy month, the same discipline as capping what an agent is allowed to spend. If you have not settled on a tier yet, which Claude plan you need comes first.
What to check before you subscribe
- Your region's price and billing currency, shown at claude.ai/upgrade.
- Whether that displayed price already includes tax or adds it at checkout.
- Your card's foreign transaction fee, as a number, from the card's own terms.
- Your country's rate on foreign digital services, and whether your province or state changes it.
- Your billing address, set to where you really are.
- Your tax or VAT ID, entered before the first charge if you hold one.
If you are billed in USD, expect the local total to change from month to month as the rate moves. Budget on the figure in your billing currency, because that is the only number in the chain that holds still.
FAQ
Does Claude Code cost more in my country?
It can. The 20 USD Pro price is Anthropic's US price, and its help page says "Monthly pricing varies by region", with pricing "in your local currency where supported". On top of the regional price, your billing address sets a consumption tax that runs from 0 to above 20 percent. If you are charged in a currency other than your card's, your bank also converts the charge and often adds a fee near 2 to 3 percent. For an account billed in USD, a Pro plan listed at 20.00 USD is invoiced at 24.00 USD in the United Kingdom before your bank touches it.
Why does the amount on my card not match the price on the pricing page?
The pricing page shows US dollar prices and says "Prices shown don't include applicable tax." Your region may have its own price, and tax then goes on according to your billing address. So the receipt Anthropic emails you, subject line "Your receipt from Anthropic", can already read differently from the pricing page. If that receipt is in a currency other than your card's, your bank converts it under your card's exchange-rate rules and may add a foreign transaction fee. Compare the receipt against the statement: the gap between them belongs entirely to your bank.
Can I pay in my own currency instead of US dollars?
Often, yes. Anthropic offers web pricing "in your local currency where supported", and claude.ai/upgrade shows what your region gets. Web subscriptions are paid by credit or debit card only. If you subscribed before your region's currency was offered, you may still be billed in the old one, and switching means cancelling, letting the term run out and subscribing again. Mobile app store subscriptions also bill in your currency, though the amount is then the price set for that store, which can differ from Anthropic's web price.
Does adding a VAT or GST number lower what I pay?
For a registered business, usually yes. A valid EU VAT number moves the supply to reverse charge, so the invoice shows 0 percent VAT and you account for the tax yourself. A Canadian GST/HST registrant that supplies its number is not charged by a non-resident supplier under the simplified registration regime; self-assessment generally applies if the imported service is used less than 90 percent in commercial activities. Add it under Settings > Billing, through "Update" next to your payment method, and add it before the first charge: the help centre states that billing detail updates "only apply to future billing cycles" and that completed invoices cannot be changed retroactively. An individual with no tax registration cannot use this route.
Is the API cheaper than a subscription if my local currency is weak?
Not because of the currency. The API is priced in USD. If your plan is billed in USD as well, a weak currency raises both by the same percentage and the ranking between them does not move. If your plan is billed in local currency, convert the API estimate at today's rate and compare like with like. Either way the comparison depends mainly on how many tokens you use in a month set against the plan price.