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The Claude cost model.

A working calculator for what Claude Team costs an HR team. Team bills per seat with usage bundled in, so the number is predictable — known before the month starts. Edit the blue fields, watch the totals update, then export to Excel or CSV.

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Edit any blue field. Totals recompute instantly. Export an Excel workbook (with live formulas) or a flat CSV.
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How to read this model.

Team is the predictable plan. You buy seats and usage is bundled in, so the monthly number is fixed before the month starts — no usage metering, no surprise bill. Standard seats are everyday users; Premium seats are heavy users (for example, someone in Claude Code most of the day). Edit any blue field and the totals update as you type.

Key terms
Standard seat Team
An everyday user. About $20/seat/month on annual billing, with a usage allowance bundled in.
Premium seat Team
A heavier user — for example, someone in Claude Code most of the day. About $100/seat/month, with roughly five times a Standard seat’s usage allowance.
Bundled usage Team
The seat price already includes a usage allowance, so you don’t pay per token and the bill is known in advance.
Blended $/seat/month
Total monthly cost divided by total seats — the effective average cost per person.
Spend limits
Caps you set at the org, group, or user level that stop usage before it runs past budget.
Bundled per seat

Team

The predictable one. Seats times price, usage bundled per seat with per-user caps — the bill is known before the month starts.

Inputs

Standard = everyday users. Premium = heavy users (for example, Claude Code). See key terms above.

Rates ($/seat/mo)

$20 annual · $25 monthly
$100 annual · $125 monthly

Anthropic’s current published Team rates — fixed here, not an input. Verify at claude.com/pricing; they change often.

Total seats
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Monthly cost
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Annual cost
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Blended $/seat/mo
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Before you quote

Team bundles usage into the seat price, so the bill is known before the month starts — no metering, no surprise. The only variables are how many seats and the Standard/Premium split. Anthropic changes seat structure and rates often; verify at claude.com/pricing. This is the cost of the tool, not my engagement fee.

How to use this

Edit it, then export it.

Change the seats and the Standard/Premium split to match your HR team; the totals update live. When the numbers are right, download a clean Excel workbook — with live formulas — to share with Finance.

The figures here are Anthropic’s plan prices, the cost of the tool.

The AI-for-HR Sprint

Built around your real numbers.

In a Sprint, this model is built against your HR team’s actual seats and the Standard/Premium split you really need, with spend caps set in the Team admin.

This is my AI-for-HR practice — one of three I run, alongside Total Rewards and HR Systems. They’re separate practices; you can hire me for any one of them on its own.

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