Last reviewed: August 2026
Seat (per-user) and API (per-token) are separate billing models. Most enterprises use both.
| Plan |
Price |
Audience |
Difference from Business |
| Business (formerly Team) |
~$25/seat/mo |
Small teams (2+) |
— |
| Enterprise |
~$45–75/seat/mo (negotiated, 150+) |
Large orgs |
SSO/SCIM, RBAC, audit logs, EKM, data residency, custom SLA, HIPAA eligible |
When to upgrade Business → Enterprise:
- 150+ seats or security/compliance requirements (SSO mandatory, audit logs, data residency)
- HIPAA-covered data processing
- Org-wide governance (role-based permissions, group credit limits)
API tiers auto-upgrade based on cumulative spend. (Official Rate Limits)
| Tier |
Condition |
Monthly Limit |
RPM/TPM Level |
| Free |
Allowed region |
$100/mo |
Low |
| Tier 1 |
$5 spent |
$100/mo |
Medium |
| Tier 2 |
$50 spent |
$500/mo |
Medium+ |
| Tier 3 |
$100 spent |
$1,000/mo |
High |
| Tier 4 |
$250 spent |
$5,000/mo |
High+ |
| Tier 5 |
$1,000 spent |
$200,000/mo |
Maximum |
| Plan |
Price |
Audience |
Difference from Team |
| Team Standard |
~$25/seat/mo (official pricing) |
Small teams (minimum seats/caps per official page) |
— |
| Team Premium |
~$125/seat/mo (official pricing) |
High-usage teams |
Higher usage allowance |
| Enterprise |
Contract-based — seats + API usage, etc. (official info) |
Large orgs |
SCIM, audit logs, Compliance API, CMEK, HIPAA/BAA, org-level spend caps |
| Tier |
Level |
Notes |
| Start |
Entry |
Low RPM/TPM |
| Build |
Dev/Test |
Medium |
| Scale |
Production |
High RPM/TPM, customizable via Enterprise contract |
Official Rate Limits: platform.claude.com/docs/en/api/rate-limits
| Vendor |
Method |
When to Use |
| Azure PTU (Provisioned Throughput Unit) |
Fixed hourly billing, guaranteed throughput |
>150–200M tokens/mo steady traffic |
| Bedrock Provisioned Throughput |
Reserved model units (1/6-month commit) |
High-volume steady workloads + latency guarantees |
| Bedrock On-demand |
Per-token billing, no reservation |
Burst/experimental/irregular workloads |
| Channel |
Cost Tracking |
Budget/Alerts |
Team Allocation |
| OpenAI |
Platform Usage Dashboard |
Per-project monthly budget cap |
Projects + API Keys |
| Anthropic |
Console usage dashboard |
Per-workspace spend cap |
Workspaces |
| Azure Foundry |
Microsoft Cost Management |
Azure Budgets + alerts |
Resource tags (project, team) |
| Bedrock |
AWS Cost Explorer + CUR 2.0 |
AWS Budgets + Cost Anomaly Detection |
Inference profiles + cost allocation tags |
| Pattern |
Description |
| Showback |
Visualize team usage without actual chargeback. Awareness building |
| Chargeback |
Deduct from team budgets. Effective at preventing agent cost runaway |
| Model Routing |
Simple tasks → lightweight model; complex tasks → frontier model |
| Token Budgets |
Daily/monthly token caps per project/team/user |
| AI Gateway |
LiteLLM, Portkey, etc. for virtual key issuance, hard budgets, routing control |
Seat/API pricing, minimum seats, and tier limits change frequently. Verify against the official pages below.