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Anthropic Adds India Rupee Pricing But Leaves UPI Out Of Claude Payments

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TechCrunch said Anthropic has begun showing Claude prices in Indian rupees for some users, with India accounting for 5.8% of global Claude usage. The rollout covers local currency display but still relies on cards or app-store billing rather than UPI, while Mythos 5 access remains limited outside the U.S.

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Anthropic Adds India Rupee Pricing But Leaves UPI Out Of Claude Payments
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Anthropic has begun showing Claude prices in Indian rupees for some users, while checkout still runs through cards or Apple and Google app-store billing rather than UPI.

TechCrunch said Anthropic described India as Claude's second-largest market after the U.S., with 5.8% of global usage.

Claude's website and mobile apps show the local currency prices.

The payment path remains separate from India's instant-payments network, which OpenAI supported when it added rupee pricing for ChatGPT in August.

Claude Pro Starts At ₹2,000 A Month In India

Claude Pro is listed in India at ₹2,000 a month when billed annually.

Claude Max starts at ₹11,999 a month, while Team plans start at ₹2,399 per seat a month.

The India prices include local taxes, and mobile-app prices vary slightly from website listings.

The public record does not indicate whether every Indian user can see the rupee prices yet.

Users still need cards or app-store billing even as the subscription pages move away from dollar-denominated pricing.

India Expansion Runs Through Bengaluru And IT Services Partners

The pricing change follows Anthropic's wider India buildout.

The company opened a Bengaluru office in February after announcing the plan in October, and it appointed former Microsoft India managing director Irina Ghose in January to lead the business in the country.

Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services are also part of Anthropic's recent India channel push.

Those partnerships put Claude in front of large IT-services customers while the company tries to turn high usage into paid enterprise and developer adoption.

UPI And Mythos 5 Access Remain Open Items

The India rollout sits alongside model-access limits that affected developers outside the U.S. TechCrunch said a June restriction hit Fable 5 and Mythos 5 availability for non-U.S. entities, pushing some Indian developers and startup founders to consider alternatives to American AI models.

The Fable 5 restriction has since been lifted, while Mythos 5 access remains limited.

Anthropic did not respond to TechCrunch's request for comment.

UPI timing, full rupee-price availability and future Mythos 5 access for Indian users remain outside the public record.

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