Claude Code pricing by country and currency

What Claude Code costs outside the US

Anthropic prices Claude Code in US dollars everywhere, so the price by country is one list price plus two local additions: the conversion your card issuer performs, and the consumption tax your own country charges on a foreign digital service. There is no euro price list and no rupee price list. The pricing page states it in one line: "Prices shown don't include applicable tax."

So you cannot look the local price up. You can only compute it, and the result moves a little every month because the exchange rate moves. What follows is the arithmetic, 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

[
  {
    "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 5x",
    "usd_per_month": "100.00"
  },
  {
    "plan": "Max 20x",
    "usd_per_month": "200.00"
  }
]

Pro costs 20.00 USD per month billed monthly, or 17.00 USD per month if you pay for the year up front. Max starts at 100.00 USD and the larger tier is 200.00 USD. Every paid tier includes Claude Code, and as of August 2026 the pricing page lists it on the free tier as well. For what each tier actually buys you, read what Claude Code costs on each plan and the gap between Max at 100 and Max 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:

1. The plan's list price in USD.
2. Local consumption tax, added by Anthropic to the USD invoice, based on your billing address.
3. The exchange rate your card network uses on the day the charge settles.
4. Your card issuer's foreign transaction fee, if your card has one.

The order matters. Tax is applied in USD, before any conversion, so the invoice you receive is a single USD figure with the tax already inside it. Your bank then converts that one figure. This is why a change in your local tax rate changes the USD invoice, while a fall in your currency changes only the local total.

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 USD amount and the tax line. Your card statement carries the local amount, 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

Anthropic bills in USD, so no conversion happens on their side. Two other parties do it. The card network (Visa, Mastercard) applies its own daily rate, which tracks the interbank rate closely. Your issuing bank may then add a foreign transaction fee on top of that rate. Typical published figures for that fee sit near 2 to 3 percent on consumer cards in most markets, and some travel cards and fintech accounts advertise 0 percent. 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. If you expected nothing extra and see a small second line, that is usually the reason.

The rate is taken on the day the charge settles, not the day you subscribed. 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". A billing address you do not live at is a false declaration, and it also makes the receipt useless to your accountant.

[
  {
    "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 August 2026, applied to the Pro list price. 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. 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 are not collected, with collection starting in 2027. What a Brazilian card holder pays today is IOF (imposto sobre operações financeiras, the tax on financial operations), charged at 3.5 percent on foreign currency purchases as of August 2026. 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.

Worked example: one Pro plan in four places

Start from the Pro plan at 20.00 USD list, billed monthly.

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.

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 during 2026, the invoice stays at 20.00 USD, and the additions come from the bank instead: IOF at 3.5 percent, 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}')
EOF

With 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 the second line misses your statement by more than a cent or two, your card's fee is not the number you believed it was.

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, and self-assesses instead. 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, and recovering it means a claim through your own tax return rather than a refund from the seller.

If you are an individual with no tax registration, none of this applies to you. You pay the tax, and there is no legal route around it.

Mobile app stores price differently

The Max plan help page carries a line worth reading twice: "These prices are for web subscriptions only. Mobile pricing may vary depending on your app platform." Apple and Google set prices in fixed local-currency tiers instead of converting USD, and they 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 the arithmetic above.

Subscribe on the web if you want the USD figure 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 too, so a weak currency does not change the choice

Pay-as-you-go API usage is priced per token in USD, at the same rates everywhere. Your currency multiplies the subscription and the API bill by the same factor, so it does not tilt the decision between them. That choice still turns 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 USD 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 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.

Expect the local total to drift by a percent or so month to month as the rate moves. Budget on the USD figure, because that is the only number in the chain that holds still.

FAQ

Does Claude Code cost more in my country?

The list price is identical everywhere, because Anthropic bills in US dollars. What differs is what your bank and your government add: a foreign transaction fee near 2 to 3 percent on many cards, and a consumption tax set by your billing address that runs from 0 to above 20 percent. 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?

Two additions sit between those figures. Tax is applied to the USD invoice first, so the receipt Anthropic emails you, subject line "Your receipt from Anthropic", already reads higher than the pricing page. Your bank then converts that figure at the network rate on the settlement day 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?

Not on the web. Web subscriptions are charged in USD by credit or debit card, and your issuer performs the conversion. Mobile app store subscriptions are the exception, because Apple and Google price in local tiers and bill in your currency, though the amount then follows the store's tier rather than the USD arithmetic.

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 and self-assesses instead. 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?

No. Both are priced in USD, so a weak currency raises both by the same percentage and the ranking between them does not move. The comparison depends only on how many tokens you use in a month set against the fixed plan price.