Claude Max 5x costs $100/mo; Kimi Allegro costs $99/mo. The extra money buys more usage and adds Fable, so this is also a capability upgrade.
Claude Max 5x vs Kimi Allegro: choose Claude Max 5x. Measured on Claude Max 5x, one pass of our fixed task set fits about 240 tasks a week with Claude Fable 5.1. Claude Max 5x costs $100/mo; Kimi Allegro costs $99/mo.Measured
Our verdict
Choose Claude Max 5x. It gives you Opus 5.5 and Fable and costs almost the same as Kimi Allegro.
Kimi can compete with Claude on visual design, but its limits run out too fast and K3 has got worse in our use. There is no reason to choose it here.
$100 gives Opus 5.5 five times the Pro allowance. Opus 5.5 is light enough on the limit to keep several agents running through the day. Fable is included for the hardest planning, but Opus 5.5 now covers most of it. Move here when the Pro limit stops you.
Pros
Five times the Pro allowance
Room for several Opus 5.5 agents
Sonnet 5.5 for smaller things and simple tasks
Fable for the hardest planning
Cons
Pro covers most single-agent days for $80 less
Best for People who keep hitting the Claude Pro limit. Start on Pro first.
How far it goes: at least 15 times a week, and more than 100 for the cheapest model
Our whole real-world issues and spec planning pass runs at least 15 times a week, and more than 100 for the cheapest model on this plan, depending on which model you run.
That works out at about under 23c to $1.84 of the subscription per run, at the list price.
Measured on this plan, at <1% to 8%/1w of its allowance per run. A share belongs to the plan it was measured on, so we never subtract one plan's from another's.
$99 gives K3 five times the agent credits of Allegretto. The usage limit still runs out too quickly. K3 has regressed in our use since release. More credits do not make it worth buying.
Pros
Five times the Allegretto agent credits
Good visual design
Cons
The usage limit drains too quickly
K3 has regressed since release
Best for Nobody.
How far it goes: we have not measured this plan
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Verdicts and prices are the quiz's versioned editorial catalog, last reviewed 2026-10-01. The plan cards keep measured evidence separate from the recommendation. Any other pair composes on the subscription comparison, and the quiz turns your answers into a recommendation.