Last verified: 8 September 2026. Seat and token dollars live on Claude pricing. Keys and prepaid credits: Anthropic Console.
Direct Answer (8 September 2026): Claude Code ships with paid chat seats: Pro ($20/mo or $17 annual), Max (from $100, 5× or 20×), Team (Standard $20 annual / $25 monthly; Premium $100 / $125; 2–150 seats), Enterprise ($20/seat + API-rate usage). Free does not include Claude Code. A seat is not an API credit. Extra usage on paid plans, when enabled, bills at API rates.
Two meters
- Seat — claude.ai / Claude Code usage cap on Pro, Max, Team, Enterprise.
- API — prepaid credits in the console. Same models, different bill.
Official seats: claude.com/pricing and the Team Help Center article. Official tokens: API pricing.
Token rates used inside Code (API path)
| Model | In / out per MTok | When |
|---|---|---|
| Haiku 4.5 | $1 / $5 | Cheap lookups |
| Sonnet 5 | $2 / $10 | Daily default |
| Opus 5 | $5 / $25 | Hard refactors |
| Fable 5.1 | $10 / $50 | Only if the job is worth it |
Older Sonnet 4.6 ($3/$15) and Opus 4.8 ($5/$25) remain listed. Do not start new work on them.
Which seat
- Light Code: Pro.
- Several hours a day: Max 5×.
- All-day / long agents: Max 20×.
- 2–150 people, one bill: Team. Premium if those seats burn the weekly cap.
- SSO / SCIM / audit and usage that should scale: Enterprise.
- Unattended pipelines: console API key with a spend cap.
Related: current models · console setup.
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