Buy Claude Pro with Bitcoin

Which BTC network to use

Network choice decides most of what you pay in fees, and getting it wrong is the one mistake that loses funds outright. Match the network shown on the private payment page exactly.

The case for paying with BTC

• The most widely held crypto asset — many buyers have BTC and nothing else.
• Easiest to acquire through non-exchange channels: ATMs, OTC desks and person-to-person trades exist for BTC where they do not for stablecoins.
• Fully decentralised issuance, with no issuer capable of freezing an address.
• On-chain Bitcoin works directly if BTC is the asset you already hold.

The case against

• Highest fee of any option at subscription size, and the fee is unpredictable because it depends on mempool congestion.
• Ten to sixty minutes of confirmation time can outlast the quote window if you wait before broadcasting.
• A low miner fee can leave the transaction unconfirmed and delay manual verification.
• Spending appreciating BTC on a $20 subscription is a poor trade for most holders — this is the classic pizza problem.

Where to get BTC

• Any exchange, ATM or P2P desk — BTC has the broadest acquisition surface of any crypto.
• If you already hold BTC on an exchange, consider swapping to USDT-TRC20 first; the swap plus a $1 TRON fee is usually cheaper than a congested BTC transfer.

When Bitcoin is genuinely the right choice

If BTC is what you hold and converting it would mean onboarding to an exchange that will not accept you, then the fee is simply the cost of access and it is worth paying. That is a common situation for buyers in sanctioned or heavily-restricted jurisdictions, where BTC is acquired peer-to-peer and stablecoin rails are harder to reach.

This checkout accepts an on-chain Bitcoin mainnet transfer only; it does not offer Lightning. A Lightning payment is not interchangeable with the displayed on-chain address.

Outside those cases, converting to USDT or USDC before paying will usually save you more than the swap costs.

Why the Bitcoin fee you are quoted is a guess

Bitcoin fees are not set by the network — they are a bid. You are competing with everyone else broadcasting a transaction at that moment for space in the next block, and when the mempool is busy the price of confirming quickly rises sharply. This is why fee estimates on a subscription-sized payment can swing from under a dollar to well over ten within a day.

Your wallet estimates a fee that should confirm within a target number of blocks. Setting it too low can leave the transfer unconfirmed for hours, which complicates a time-limited quote.

• Check a mempool fee estimator before sending rather than accepting the wallet default blindly.
• For a payment with a rate-lock window, use a fee that is likely to confirm promptly.
• Quiet periods are genuinely cheaper. This is not superstition — demand for block space really is lower.

If your transaction is stuck unconfirmed

An underpaid-fee transaction sits in the mempool rather than failing. It has not been lost and it has not been spent; it is simply not attractive enough to include yet. There are two ways out, and which you have depends on how the transaction was constructed.

• Replace-by-fee (RBF): if the transaction was flagged replaceable, your wallet can rebroadcast it with a higher fee. Most modern wallets enable this by default.
• Child-pays-for-parent (CPFP): spending the unconfirmed output with a high-fee transaction gives miners an incentive to confirm both. More involved, and not offered by every wallet.
• Waiting: fees may fall, and a stuck transaction often confirms eventually. This is unhelpful when a quote window is expiring.
• A transaction that never confirms is eventually dropped from the mempool and the funds become spendable again. They are not gone.

The price-movement risk that stablecoins do not have

The exact BTC amount is fixed when the order is created, so later USD price movement does not change the required satoshis. The practical exposure is the time you wait before broadcasting and whether the quote expires first.

Every direct-wallet transaction is reviewed manually. A dollar-denominated stablecoin makes the amount easier to reason about, which is why we recommend one to anyone who already holds it on a supported network.

Paying with BTC, step by step

1. Choose your plan, term and exact asset/network method on the checkout page — the price is itemised so you can see the gift cost, our markup and the quote/payment handling reserve separately.
2. Enter the email address where you want the redemption code sent. It does not have to match your Claude account.
3. Select the supported BTC method. The private payment page shows the exact amount, QR, receiving address and network.
4. Send the full recipient amount from your wallet or exchange on the exact network displayed.
5. Paste the public transaction ID into the payment page. Submission starts a manual on-chain review and does not mark the order paid.
6. After verification, an operator buys the official gift subscription by hand and emails you the code within 12 hours, usually much sooner.
7. Redeem the code at claude.ai/gift/redeem on the account you want upgraded.