Anthropic Max 5x vs xAI X Premium+: which is better value in August 2026?

Updated August 20, 2026 · generated from the open catalogue

xAI X Premium+ returns 21.8x its price against 13.4x for Anthropic Max 5x, so on measured ceiling xAI X Premium+ is the better value.

Anthropic Max 5xxAI X Premium+
Price$100/mo $40/mo
AgentClaude Code Grok Build
Ceiling$1,339/mo $872/mo
Multiple13.4x 21.8x
Basisfrom published cap estimate
Quota publishedderived unknown

Anthropic Max 5x

The plan allows 3,300,000 credits per 5 hours and 41,666,700 credits per week.

xAI X Premium+

The plan allows 0.6 times the allowance of SuperGrok per week.

The honest caveat

A ceiling is what the plan allows, not what you will use. If you write code an hour a day, neither plan's cap is the thing that decides this and the cheaper one wins by default. The multiple matters when you are the kind of user who hits limits.

Prices and caps here change without notice, which is why this page is regenerated from the catalogue on every deploy rather than written once. Compare the raw entries at claude-max-5x and x-premium-plus.