Multiply the per-developer cost by your seat count. See whether team seats beat buying hardware to run open models yourself. Every number cites a source, and the caveats stay with the answer.
Pick a seat count and workload mix. The three routes recompute as you change the inputs.
Team inputs
Set the seats and how the team works.
The three routes recompute as you change these inputs.
Three team routes
The lowest bill at this headcount.
Monthly totals scale with 20 seats at regular volume per developer. The lowest mid-range total gets the accent treatment.
Seat plans
Team seat plan
Standard seats include the current Claude family and Claude Code.
Monthly total
$400
Per seat
$20
What this is
Claude Team Standard is the lowest public team rate that covers 20 seats.
The estimate uses the published per-seat rate for every developer.
The $20 monthly equivalent requires annual billing. Weekly per-member limits apply, and extra usage uses prepaid credits. Claude Enterprise pricing is contract based.
Negotiated enterprise pricing usually lands below public list rates at larger seat counts.
Cheapest
Metered API
Monthly total
$300–$480
Per seat
$15–$24
What this is
Metered APIs route each selected workload through the lowest-cost covering models in the catalog.
The estimate applies 100 million tokens to every developer, so each seat adds the same usage range.
Reality check
The range assumes 70 percent input tokens and 30 percent output tokens. Prompt caching discounts are excluded.
Team seat plan