---
id: "prereq-claude-pro"
type: "prereq"
source_timestamps: ["00:01:36"]
tags: ["pricing-tiers"]
related: ["concept-claude-cowork", "entity-claude"]
reason: "Agentic features require higher compute limits and access to advanced models (like Opus) which are gated behind paid tiers."
sources: ["dara"]
sourceVaultSlug: "claude-cowork-creative-strategy-2026May14"
originDay: 6
---
# Claude Pro Or Max Plan

## Requirement

A paid Claude plan — **at minimum Pro ($20/month)**; **Max** plan recommended.

## Why

Agentic features in [[concept-claude-cowork|Cowork]] require higher compute limits and access to advanced models gated behind paid tiers.

## Speaker's Setup

- The speaker, [[entity-dara-denney|Dara Denney]], uses the **Max plan** to access the **Claude Opus 4.6** model.
- Opus 4.6 provides the highest computing power and reasoning capabilities necessary for complex, multi-step research tasks (e.g., scraping thousands of reviews, parsing rendered ad library pages).

## Minimum Viable

Pro at $20/month works for lighter Cowork tasks but may bottleneck on:

- Large-volume scraping (e.g., 5,000 reviews)
- Multi-step chained research workflows
- High-quality reasoning on synthesis tasks

## Related

- [[entity-claude-d6]]
- [[prereq-claude-desktop]]
- [[prereq-chrome-connector]]


## Related across days
- [[prereq-claude-desktop]]
- [[prereq-claude-cowork-access]]
- [[question-claude-credit-consumption]]