When does your Claude subscription renew?
Your Claude plan renews on a fixed billing date you cannot change. How to cancel in time, app store differences, monthly-only Max and Ultra, and what Headroom shows.
Your Claude subscription renews on a fixed billing date, and Anthropic says you cannot change the date you are charged for Pro, Max or Ultra. The only way to move it is to cancel and resubscribe on the date you prefer. To avoid the next charge, cancel at least 24 hours before your renewal date. Sources: Anthropic's billing FAQ and the pricing FAQ.
Where to find your date
If you subscribed on the web, go to Settings > Billing on claude.ai. Anthropic's billing FAQ points there for your past invoices, and receipts are also emailed with the subject line "Your receipt from Anthropic." The FAQ does not say where the next billing date itself is shown, so the dates on past invoices are a good guide. If you subscribed through the iOS or Android app, "your payment is handled by the Apple App Store or Google Play", so check that store's subscription screen instead (see below).
Because the date cannot be changed, the day you first subscribed is a reasonable first guess for a monthly plan. Two things move it: cancelling and resubscribing, and an upgrade made through Google Play.
Cancelling and what happens next
Per the pricing FAQ, cancel at least 24 hours before your renewal date to avoid the next charge. The plan stays active until the end of the billing period, and then Pro, Max and Ultra accounts move to Free. Free does not include Claude Code, so Claude Code stops working for that account at that point. (See which plans include Claude Code.)
Changing plans mid-period
- Upgrades take effect right away, and unused time is credited. Your new plan's limits apply right away.
- Downgrades take effect at the end of the billing period.
For web subscriptions, Anthropic describes at least one upgrade as a charge within your existing cycle rather than a new one. The Max plan article says: "When upgrading from Max to Ultra, your account will be charged on a prorated basis for the remainder of your billing cycle." Google Play works differently, as explained below.
Monthly and annual billing
As of November 2026:
| Plan | Billing options |
|---|---|
| Pro | $20 a month, or $17 a month billed annually ($200 up front) |
| Max | $100 a month, monthly only |
| Ultra | $200 a month, monthly only |
| Team Standard | $25 per member a month, or $20 billed annually |
| Team Premium | $125 per member a month, or $100 billed annually |
Prices are US prices, exclude tax and vary by region. Pro is the only individual plan with an annual option. Max and Ultra cannot be switched to annual billing, so if you want a yearly commitment, Pro and Team are the plans that offer it. Prices on the web are for web subscriptions; "Mobile pricing may vary depending on your app platform."
App store subscriptions differ
If you subscribed through Google Play and upgrade, you pay the full new price and the unused value becomes extra days, "so your renewal date will land a few days later than a full month". The Max plan article says this. So a Google Play subscription can drift from the simple "same date every month" pattern. Anthropic documents nothing similar for the Apple App Store; for either store, check the store's own subscription screen for the date it will charge you.
Renewal is not your limit reset
The two are easy to confuse, but your billing date and your usage limit resets are unrelated.
- The session limit resets five hours after the period starts, which is when you send your first message.
- Weekly limits "reset at a fixed time each week that is assigned to your account. Your reset day and time stay the same regardless of when you start using Claude or when your subscription begins." You can see your next reset in Settings > Usage.
So subscribing on the 14th does not mean your weekly reset is on a 14th, or on the same weekday you subscribed. Anthropic says explicitly that the weekly reset is independent of when your subscription begins (source). For the reset times themselves, see Claude's weekly limit reset time and when the 5-hour limit resets.
Anthropic does not describe any extra reset at renewal either. If you run out of weekly usage a day before you renew, expect the reset at your account's weekly time, not on the renewal date.
Usage credits are separate
Usage credits are billed separately from your subscription, at standard API rates, and do not affect the reset timing of your session or weekly limits. Credits bought on or after December 7, 2026 generally expire 12 months after purchase, and purchases are non-refundable except where law requires. See usage credits on Claude plans.
What Headroom shows
Headroom, a free Mac menu bar app, shows an estimated renewal date for each Claude Code account when you click its row, in the form "renews around 30 Nov". It is an estimate from the day the subscription started, so it is right for monthly billing and wrong for annual billing, and it may be off if a Google Play upgrade moved your date. Treat it as a reminder, and confirm the real date in your billing settings before you rely on it for a cancellation.
Headroom is independent, from Everyday Mac Tools, and not made or endorsed by Anthropic. It reads the sign-in Claude Code already saved and never sends a prompt. Get it from the Headroom home page.