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Claude pricing plans for individuals run from free to Pro and Max; teams pay per seat, and developers pay per token through the API. On a European account Pro costs 15 euro a month billed annually (18 euro monthly) and Max starts at 90 euro a month. Team costs 20 dollars per standard seat and 100 dollars per premium seat a month billed annually. The API runs from 0.10 to 10 dollars per million input tokens, depending on the model. Tax comes on top of all of them.
This guide lays out the three ways to pay with prices as of 24 October 2026, works through a team of five and a small app, and says which route fits which use. How Claude compares with ChatGPT is in ChatGPT vs Claude; ChatGPT's own prices are in ChatGPT pricing. The pricing page shows individual plans in the currency of your region; the tiers and limits are the same everywhere.
Claude pricing tiers for individuals
| Plan | Per month | For whom | What it adds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | 0 | anyone trying Claude | chat on web, desktop and mobile, web search, file creation, memory, app connectors, Artifacts, up to five projects |
| Pro | 15 euro billed annually, 180 euro a year; 18 euro monthly | people who use Claude every day | more usage, Claude Code, projects, more models, Research, Claude in Chrome and Microsoft 365, scheduled tasks |
| Max | from 90 euro | people who work with Claude all day | 5x or 20x Pro's usage, higher output limits, priority at peak times, early access, API credits to build on the platform |
Every plan has usage limits; Pro and Max differ mainly in how much you can do per day. Prices exclude tax, which depends on where you are and whether you buy as a business.
Claude for teams: Team and Enterprise
| Plan | Per seat per month | Size | What it adds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Team, standard seat | 20 dollars billed annually, 25 monthly | 2 to 150 users | all Claude features, more usage than Pro, central billing, single sign-on, no model training on your content by default |
| Team, premium seat | 100 dollars billed annually, 125 monthly | mix with standard seats | five times a standard seat's usage |
| Enterprise | 20 dollars per seat billed annually, plus usage at API rates | 20 seats minimum | per-user spend limits, roles, audit logs, custom retention, IP allowlisting |
For a team, more than price matters: in Team and Enterprise someone manages access centrally, and your content is not used to train models by default. What your company agrees about AI use belongs in a policy; see the EU AI Act for business. Whether these tools are safe for business data is covered in is ChatGPT safe for business, and the same questions apply to Claude.
What Claude costs a year for a team of five
5 x Pro900 euro a year
separate accounts, no central admin
Team, 5 standard seats1,200 dollars a year
central admin, more usage than Pro
Team, 3 standard and 2 premium3,120 dollars a year
more usage for the heaviest users
Team, 5 premium seats6,000 dollars a year
five times a standard seat's usage
Worked example: a team of five
Five people who write, summarise and analyse with Claude every day, billed annually, before tax:
| Route | Per year | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Five times Pro | 900 euro | five separate accounts, each with its own billing and settings |
| Team, five standard seats | 1,200 dollars | one account with central admin, single sign-on and more usage than Pro |
| Team, three standard and two premium | 3,120 dollars | more usage for the two heaviest users |
| Team, five premium seats | 6,000 dollars | five times a standard seat's usage for everyone |
The cheapest route is not always the best. Five separate Pro accounts mean five places where company data sits without anyone overseeing it. For a team that handles client data, central admin often outweighs the price gap.
Claude API pricing: paying per use
If you build Claude into your own software, such as an assistant in a client portal or a flow that sorts email, you pay per token, a fragment of text of roughly part of a word. What a token is and how to count it is in AI tokens. Prices per million tokens in dollars, on 24 October 2026:
| Model | Input | Output | Cache read | For what |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haiku 5.5 | 0.10 | 0.50 | 0.01 | fast, cheap work such as sorting and short answers; above 100,000 tokens per request 0.50 and 2.50 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | 2 | 10 | 0.10 | the everyday workhorse for code and agents |
| Opus 5.5 | 4 | 20 | 0.20 | heavy reasoning and complex agents |
| Fable 5.1 | 10 | 50 | 0.25 | long-running agents needing the most intelligence |
Batch processing, for work that does not have to finish at once, halves the price. Web search costs 10 dollars per 1,000 searches on top of tokens. Workloads that must run in the US cost 1.1 times the token price.
What an AI application costs in total, including the build, hosting and upkeep, is in AI chatbot cost. To run your own numbers, use the AI cost calculator.
How to keep the Claude bill down
- Pay annuallyPro then costs 15 euro a month instead of 18: 36 euro less per person per year, 180 euro for a team of five.
- Do not give everyone the same planA Team premium seat costs 100 dollar a month billed annually, a standard seat 20. A team of five with one heavy user and four standard seats pays 180 dollar a month; give everyone a premium seat and it is 500.
- Test for free firstFree is enough to see whether Claude fits your team's work. Buy a paid plan only for people who use it daily.
- On the API, pick the smallest model that does the job wellSorting and short replies work on Haiku 5.5 at a fraction of the price of Opus 5.5.
- Use caching and batch processingFixed instructions sent with every request are read from the cache at a twentieth of the Sonnet 5.5 input price. Work that need not finish right away costs half in batch.
What the Claude price does not cover
A subscription pays for usage, not for the work around it. Plan for the time to teach your team good prompts, agreements on which data may go into Claude, and, if you want Claude inside your own software, the build, hosting and maintenance of that integration. On Team and Enterprise Anthropic does not train on your data by default; on personal plans, check what applies. Read the terms before anyone pastes client data into a chat.
Which Claude route fits
- Choose Free ifyou want to try Claude for the odd text or question.
- Choose Pro ifyou work with Claude every day, alone or as a freelancer, and want Claude Code or projects.
- Choose Max ifyou hit Pro's limits every day.
- Choose Team iftwo or more people in your company use Claude and you want central control over access.
- Choose the API ifClaude has to do a task inside your own software, without anyone in a chat window.
For the broader question of which AI assistant suits your team, see AI tools for business; the choice against Copilot is in ChatGPT or Copilot.
What we build with it
We built AMOSI, our own marketing software for small businesses, which went live in July 2026. Anyone building an application that uses AI every day learns that cost mostly depends on the model you pick per task: a small model for sorting, a larger one for writing. If you want Claude working inside your own processes, in a client portal, an email flow or an assistant on your own documents, see how we work on AI for business. We work from Ghent, Belgium, for companies across Europe.
Claude per month, per seat and per token
How much is Claude per month?
Free costs nothing, Pro 15 euro a month billed annually or 18 euro monthly on a European account, Max from 90 euro a month. Team costs 20 dollars per standard seat a month billed annually. Tax comes on top.
What are the Claude pricing tiers?
For individuals Free, Pro and Max; for organisations Team with standard and premium seats, and Enterprise with a seat price plus usage at API rates.
How much does Claude cost for teams?
Team costs 20 dollars per standard seat and 100 dollars per premium seat a month billed annually, for 2 to 150 users. Enterprise is 20 dollars per seat plus API usage, from 20 seats.
What is Claude API pricing?
Per million tokens: Haiku 5.5 0.10 input and 0.50 output, Sonnet 5.5 2 and 10, Opus 5.5 4 and 20, Fable 5.1 10 and 50 dollars. Batch processing costs half.
What does Claude cost in the UK?
The same plans and limits; the pricing page shows individual plans in your local currency. Team and API prices are listed in dollars.