Claude Team plan
You bought Claude Team. Now what?
Claude Team is Anthropic's plan for groups of 2 to 150 people: $20 per standard seat per month billed annually, or $25 billed monthly. A seat includes Claude Code, Projects, Skills and connectors, plus SSO, central billing and spend controls. The seat is a reasonable investment if your team uses it. Most teams sign up, try a few prompts, and quietly stop. The problem is almost never the tool. It's the setup, the shared Projects, and the Claude training for teams that get skipped.
Last updated October 13, 2026
Quick answers
The seven questions people ask about Claude Team, answered in one sentence each
What is the Claude Team plan?
Claude Team is Anthropic's plan for organizations of 2 to 150 people, giving each member a seat with Claude, Claude Code and Projects, plus shared admin and billing controls.
How much does Claude Team cost?
A standard seat costs $25 per month billed monthly or $20 billed annually, and a premium seat costs $125 billed monthly or $100 billed annually (US list prices before tax).
Who is Claude Team for?
Claude Team is for groups of 2 to 150 people who want shared Projects, central billing and spend limits without an enterprise procurement cycle.
What is included in a Claude Team seat?
Every seat includes all Claude features, including Claude Code, Projects, Skills, connectors and Research, plus SSO, central billing, usage analytics and spend controls at the organization and user level.
How much usage does a Claude Team seat get?
A standard seat includes 1.25 times the Pro plan's per-session usage allowance and a premium seat includes 6.25 times, with weekly limits that apply to each member, not to the team as a whole.
How many seats does Claude Team need?
Claude Team requires at least 2 members and supports up to 150 seats, and past 150 Anthropic points teams to Enterprise.
What is not included in Claude Team?
Claude Team does not include SCIM, audit logs, the Compliance API, custom data retention or a HIPAA-ready offering, which are Enterprise-only.
Prices are Anthropic's US list prices before tax, checked October 13, 2026 on claude.com/pricing and the Team plan article. Deciding between plans? See Claude Team vs Enterprise.
The Problem
The Claude Team plan adoption gap is real.
Most teams go through the same arc. Someone champions the purchase, the seats get provisioned, and then nothing much changes. A few power users figure things out. Everyone else waits for someone to tell them what to do.
Half the team uses Claude like a chatbot - copy-pasting into the chat window. The other half forgot the password. Nobody knows about Projects, Skills, or MCP connectors - the features that justify the price tag.
The cost isn't the $25/seat. It's the productivity gap between a team that uses Claude as an operating system and a team that uses it as a fancy autocomplete.
Recognize any of these?
You bought Claude Team. Nobody is using it.
You have seats. Two people use Claude heavily. The rest opened it once, didn't know what to type, and went back to email.
Every team member is doing it differently.
No shared Projects, no shared Skills, and three different prompting habits, so nobody can build on what anyone else figured out.
The admin setup never got finished.
SSO is configured but the domain isn't verified. Spend controls aren't set. No Project is shared across the team. The infrastructure is half-built.
Leadership is asking what you're getting for the spend.
You approved the subscription. Now you need to show ROI. But if you can't describe what the team does differently with Claude, that conversation goes nowhere.
BCG surveyed 1,250 executives in 2025 and 60% reported little to no value from AI despite substantial investment. The gap is almost never the tool. It is the setup, the adoption, and the training.
Admin Setup
What needs to happen before your team starts.
The Claude Team plan includes SSO, central billing, and spend controls. These four steps are the ones that turn seats into use.
1
Set up SSO and verify your domain
SSO and domain verification are both included on Team. Set them up first, so the people you invite sign in through your identity provider and your Projects live in one organization.
2
Set spend controls before anyone starts
Org-level and per-user spend controls are included on Team. Set them before your team starts using Claude Code - this is how you avoid surprise bills.
3
Stand up shared Projects by department
One Project per department or workstream, pre-loaded with context and instructions. Not one shared catch-all that becomes noise. This is what drives sustained adoption.
4
Train the team on shared systems
Admin setup without training means the Projects sit empty. The Custom Program gets everyone using shared systems from the same starting point - intake-first, built around your actual tools. Its 90-minute working sessions go further than teaching: your people work hands-on with a workflow they run today, in your own environment. Work too big for ninety minutes is a build, and the Build Series is where we do that for you.
Wondering whether Team covers your security and governance needs, or whether you need Enterprise? See the full plan comparison. For what happens when a seat hits a spend limit and how to stop a runaway bill, read Claude spend controls.
After the plan
Picking the plan is the easy part. On most teams we meet, three people use it well, the rest draft emails with it, and five never logged in. That is not a plan problem.
The fix is how the team is taught and what gets built. The adoption framework shows how we measure it, and The Custom Program is how we teach and build it with your team.
How to get your team using Claude
Two ways to work with Nicole, depending on where your team is.
TRAIN THE TEAM
The Custom Program
From $9,500
Intake-first training tailored to your team's own tools and workflows. Foundations Series: four 60-minute sessions over four weeks. Build Series: a separate engagement where we build three workflows and hand them over working, over roughly 90 days. Up to 25 people per session.
FULL INSTALLATION
The 90-Day Rollout
From $42,500
Training across every department, five to seven workflow builds, governance, and a baseline-to-delta dashboard. The full operating layer installed over 90 days. A 60-day version with three to five builds runs from $28,500.
Not sure which fits? Book a free 30-minute discovery call and Nicole will help you figure out where to start.
Related reading
More on getting value from Claude Team:
Guide
Claude for Business
The same question at company scale: what Claude is worth to a business rather than one team, and what it takes to get there.
Blog
Is the Claude Team Plan Worth It?
Honest breakdown of when Team plan pays off and when it doesn't.
Blog
How to Roll Out Claude to Your Team
The 60-day rollout plan Nicole uses with every client, and how to avoid the fade that kills most rollouts.
Ex-Google Senior UX Engineer. 7 years building products used by millions. Now she builds custom Skills, orchestration systems, and automations that turn Claude into your team’s operating system - not just a chatbot. Nicole’s neuroscience background shapes how she builds adoption, not just technology.
Common questions
Is the Claude Team plan worth it?
Only if your team uses it. Read the full breakdown: Is the Claude Team Plan Worth It? The short answer: $20 to $25 per standard seat per month is a good deal if your team gets past chatbot-level usage. Without training, most teams don't.
What's the difference between Team and Enterprise plans?
Team ($25/seat monthly, $20 annually) covers teams of 2 to 150 people - shared Projects, SSO, central billing, and spend controls are all included. Enterprise adds SCIM provisioning, audit logs, custom data retention, customer-managed encryption keys, and a HIPAA-ready offering, and bills usage on top of a $20 seat. SSO alone is not a reason to upgrade, because SSO is on Team. For a full comparison, see the plan breakdown.
What does admin setup on Claude Team involve?
The main steps: set up SSO and verify your domain, set spend controls at the org and user level before anyone starts heavy Claude Code use, provision your first shared Projects by department, and establish which Skills and connectors your team needs. A skipped step is where adoption stalls.
How quickly can we get our team trained?
The Custom Program takes 2-3 weeks from inquiry to delivery. Intake, workshop design, then four 60-minute sessions over four weeks, or the Build Series, where we build three workflows and hand them over working over roughly 90 days, up to 25 people per session, built around your team's own tools and workflows. Most teams book within 2 weeks of first contact.
Do we need to talk to Nicole before booking a workshop?
No. The Custom Program is a standalone entry point - no prior engagement required. It's designed for teams that want training without committing to a larger engagement first. If you want to talk through fit before booking, a free 30-minute discovery call at /contact is the way to do that.
What if our team has scattered, inconsistent Claude usage?
That's the most common pattern on Team plans. The Custom Program resets everyone to the same baseline - intake-first, built around what your team needs. From there you can continue self-directed or move into the 90-Day Rollout for the full installation.
How is this different from Anthropic's training?
Anthropic documents the plan and its admin controls. Nicole runs a Claude-specific training practice and works directly with teams on their own workflows and tools.
Your team has Claude. Let's get them using it.
Tell Nicole about your team. She'll recommend the right starting point - or tell you honestly if she isn't the right fit.