Claude.ai Free plan (Anthropic)
Claude.ai Free plan (Anthropic) Free app
The catch: No API, Sonnet and Haiku only, and an unpublished limit that resets every five hours and shrinks with demand. Chats are used for training unless you turn off the model-training setting in Settings > Privacy.
| Access | Free app |
|---|---|
| Free limits | Sonnet and Haiku models (versions not named on the pricing page) with a session limit that resets every five hours and varies with demand; no Opus or Fable. |
| Modality | text, code, image |
| Credit card | Not required |
| Commercial use | – |
| Trains on your data | Yes, on the free tier |
| Licence or terms | Anthropic Consumer Terms of Service and Privacy Policy |
| Context window | – |
| Model id | – |
| Base URL | – |
| Last checked | 8 Oct 2026 |
How to use Claude Sonnet and Haiku (Free plan)
Use it in the app or the browser with a free account. There is no free API behind it.
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I want to use "Claude Sonnet and Haiku (Free plan)" for free in Claude Free. Please: 1. Check the provider's own pages and tell me how to get the free plan and what it includes today. 2. Tell me the real free limits and what needs a paid plan. Listed limits: 5-hour session limit; no fixed message count. 3. Tell me whether my chats are used for training and how to turn that off. 4. If I need API access for a project, tell me the cheapest way to get it.
Before you ship on it
- No API, Sonnet and Haiku only, and an unpublished limit that resets every five hours and shrinks with demand. Chats are used for training unless you turn off the model-training setting in Settings > Privacy.
- Prompts on the free tier may be used to train models. Keep customer data off it.
- Consumer Terms (effective 8 Oct 2025): Anthropic says 'we assign to you all of our right, title, and interest—if any—in Outputs'. No explicit commercial-use clause; bars using the service to build competing products or…
- Free tiers are shared capacity: treat the limits as a ceiling, not a promise, and keep a paid fallback.
Questions
Is Claude.ai Free plan (Anthropic) free?
Yes. Claude Free offers it as free app, with these limits: 5-hour session limit; no fixed message count. No credit card is needed.
Can I use Claude.ai Free plan (Anthropic) commercially?
The provider’s terms do not say. Ask them before you build a product on it.
How do I start with Claude.ai Free plan (Anthropic)?
Use it in the app or the browser with a free account. There is no free API behind it.
Source: claude.com/pricing, checked 8 Oct 2026.