Claude plans compared: which one is right for your business?
Pro, Max, Team, Enterprise and the API all give you Claude, but they handle seats, administration and your data differently. Here is how to choose without overbuying.
This comparison reflects Anthropic's published plans as at November 2026. Features and limits change, so confirm the detail on Anthropic's pricing page before you buy. We have left prices out for the same reason.
The short version
- One or two people experimenting: an individual plan (Pro or Max) is fine, with care about what goes into it.
- A business of 2 to 150 people: Team is usually the right starting point.
- Larger or regulated organisations: Enterprise, for audit logs, user provisioning and finer control.
- Building Claude into your own software or automations: the API, often alongside one of the plans above.
How the plans differ
| Individual (Pro, Max) | Team | Enterprise | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Built for | One person | Teams of 2 to 150 | Large organisations, from 20 seats |
| Central billing and administration | No | Yes | Yes |
| Single sign-on | No | Yes | Yes |
| Admin control over connectors | No | Yes | Yes |
| Automatic user provisioning (SCIM) | No | No | Yes |
| Audit logs and role-based access | No | No | Yes |
| Custom data retention | No | No | Yes |
| Model training on your content | A setting each user controls | Not by default | Not by default |
Why individual plans are a risk at work
The most common situation we find is staff already using Claude on personal accounts. The tool is the same, but the organisation has no visibility: nobody controls who has access, what is connected or what happens to the account when someone leaves, and whether conversations may be used for model training depends on a setting each person chooses for themselves. Moving those people onto a business plan fixes all of that in one step.
When Team is enough
Team gives a small or mid-sized organisation the things that matter most: one bill, an administrator who adds and removes people, single sign-on with your Microsoft 365 identities, control over which connectors staff can use, and no model training on your content by default. Team offers standard and premium seats, so heavy users can have more capacity without upgrading everyone.
When you need Enterprise
Enterprise is worth the step up when you need to prove what happened as well as control it. Audit logs, role-based access, automatic provisioning from your directory, custom data retention and network-level access controls are the features auditors and regulators ask about. If you handle health, financial or legal information at scale, or your customers send you security questionnaires about AI, start the conversation here.
Where the API fits
The API is for building, not for staff chat. It is billed by usage and is what sits behind custom agents, such as an AI receptionist or a document-processing workflow. Many organisations end up with both: a Team or Enterprise plan for people and API usage for the systems they build.
Questions to answer before you choose
- How many people will use it in the first six months, and how heavily?
- What is the most sensitive information anyone might put into it?
- Do you need to show an auditor, funder or customer who used it and how?
- Which systems should it connect to, and who should approve that?
- Do you have an AI use policy telling staff what is and isn't allowed?
We help Australian organisations make this choice and set the plan up properly. See Claude plans and licensing or Claude setup for teams.
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