How am I billed for my Enterprise plan? (original) (raw)

Enterprise plan billing has two parts: a fixed seat fee and separate usage charges. The seat fee covers platform access. Usage is billed on top of that, based on what your team actually consumes.

How billing works depends on whether your organization is on a self-serve or sales-assisted Enterprise plan, and whether you're using the current single Enterprise seat or a legacy seat type. The sections below are organized by plan type—make sure you're reading the section that matches your setup. If you're unsure which plan type you're on, check with the person who set up your Enterprise account or contact your Anthropic account manager. Price and plans are subject to change at Anthropic's discretion.

Seat fees

All usage-based Enterprise plans (self-serve and sales-assisted) use the same seat pricing: priced per user per month and billed annually.

The seat fee gives each person access to Claude on web, desktop, and mobile, plus Claude Code and Cowork, but doesn't include any usage. Every token your team consumes is billed separately at standard API rates.

You're charged for the number of seats on your plan at the start of your annual billing cycle. If you add seats during your term, you're charged the prorated amount immediately for the remainder of the year.

Example: Your annual plan starts January 1 with 50 seats. You are charged upfront for the seats. On April 1, you add 10 seats. You'll be charged immediately for the remaining months.

Usage billing

On usage-based Enterprise plans, usage is charged separately from your seat fee and is based on actual token consumption at standard API rates. For current per-model pricing, see our API pricing page.

How and when you're billed for usage depends on your plan type:

Self-serve Enterprise

Usage is purchased upfront in credits. Your credits draw down as your team uses Claude and Claude Code. When your credits run out, usage stops until an Owner or Primary Owner purchases more. Self-serve Enterprise plans are billed in USD only. If your organization needs to pay in another currency, contact our Sales team to set up a sales-assisted plan.

Note: If you purchased your Enterprise plan through AWS Marketplace, billing works like sales-assisted plans. You're billed monthly in arrears based on your organization's consumption rather than purchasing credits upfront.

Sales-assisted Enterprise

Usage is billed monthly in arrears based on your organization's actual consumption during each billing period. You'll receive a monthly invoice reflecting usage for that period. Speak with your account manager for questions about your usage invoices.

How usage works across your team

Enterprise seats don't come with an individual token allowance. All usage across your organization is billed together at API rates, regardless of who consumed it.

What this looks like in practice depends on your plan type:

Self-serve Enterprise

Everyone's usage draws from the same credit balance. One person's heavy usage depletes credits faster for everyone, so monitoring and spend limits matter here. When the balance hits zero, usage stops for the whole organization until an Owner purchases more.

Sales-assisted Enterprise

There's no balance to deplete. Everyone's usage is metered and added to the same monthly invoice. One person's heavy usage doesn't block anyone else — it just increases what shows up on the bill. If you want a ceiling, set spend limits.

Spend controls

Owners and Primary Owners can set spending caps to manage your organization's consumption. This applies to both self-serve and sales-assisted plans.

You can set caps at two levels:

These limits work hierarchically — a user cannot exceed their individual limit or the organization limit, whichever is lower.

On self-serve plans, spend caps work alongside your credit balance. If a user hits their individual cap or the organization cap, their usage will stop even if credits remain. Owners can adjust caps at any time.

On sales-assisted plans, spend caps prevent usage from continuing past the cap threshold. If a cap is reached, usage stops until the next billing period begins or an owner raises the limit.

Owners can set limits to "unlimited," but consumption will still be billed. You cannot disable billing for usage — usage-based pricing is a core part of the Enterprise plan.

Monitoring usage and spend

You can track your organization's usage and spending in a few places:

What happens when usage stops

If usage stops on your Enterprise plan, here's how to resume:

Chat and Chat + Claude Code seats

Some existing usage-based Enterprise organizations currently have two seat types with different pricing. If you see Chat and Chat + Claude Code seats in Organization settings > Organization, this section applies to you.

Seat fees are billed annually. Usage billing works the same way as described in the Usage billing section above: separately from seat fees, at API rates, and in arrears on sales-assisted plans.

Transition to the single Enterprise seat

At your next contract renewal, your plan will automatically transition to the single Enterprise seat model. When that happens, all users — regardless of their current seat type — will move to the Enterprise seat. This seat includes Claude Code, Cowork, Chat and more.

If you have questions about your upcoming renewal, reach out to your Anthropic Contact or our Sales team.

Seat-based plans

Some Enterprise organizations are on older seat-based plans with Standard and Premium seats. These plans charge a flat monthly fee per seat that includes a usage allowance, which is a different model than the usage-based billing described above.

On seat-based plans, usage credits are available to allow team members to continue working after reaching their seat's included limits. For details on how usage credits work and how they're billed on your plan, see Manage usage credits for Team and seat-based Enterprise plans.

Transitioning to usage-based Enterprise

At your next contract renewal, your plan will transition to the usage-based single Enterprise seat model described in this article. If you'd like to migrate before your renewal, reach out to your Anthropic Contact or our Sales team.

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