On November 6, a federal magistrate judge allowed key claims to proceed in a proposed class action challenging how Anthropic marketed Claude Max subscriptions as offering “5x or 20x more usage” than Claude Pro. The ruling does not decide that Anthropic is liable, but it says customers could reasonably connect that multiplier to the monthly period they were paying for. Businesses selling metered subscriptions now need to reconsider whether the headline promise and the actual l