Claude Team is the self-serve team plan for 5–150 people. Claude Enterprise is the sales-assisted plan for organizations that need SCIM, audit logs, custom retention, and HIPAA-ready controls. Both plans ship with Claude Cowork (the agentic desktop) and Claude Code on every seat, so the decision is rarely about product access and almost always about identity, compliance, and scale.
At-a-glance comparison
| Feature | Claude Team | Claude Enterprise |
|---|---|---|
| Per-seat price | $20/mo annual · $25/mo monthly (standard). $100/mo annual · $125/mo monthly (Premium, 5× usage) | $20/seat base + usage at API rates |
| Team size | 5 to 150 people | Large businesses operating at scale |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Self-serve or sales-assisted variants |
| Claude Cowork desktop app | ✓ | ✓ |
| Claude Code | ✓ | ✓ |
| Single sign-on (SSO) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Central billing & admin controls | ✓ | ✓ |
| Enterprise search | ✓ | ✓ |
| Admin spend limits (user & org) | ✗ | ✓ |
| Role-based access (fine-grained) | ✗ | ✓ |
| SCIM user lifecycle | ✗ | ✓ |
| Audit logs | ✗ | ✓ |
| Compliance API (observability & monitoring) | ✗ | ✓ |
| Custom data retention controls | ✗ | ✓ |
| Network-level access control & IP allowlisting | ✗ | ✓ |
| HIPAA-ready offering | ✗ | Available |
| Google Docs cataloging | ✗ | ✓ |
Pricing — Team vs. Enterprise
Claude Team
- Standard seats — $20/seat/month billed annually, $25/seat/month billed monthly
- Premium seats — $100/seat/month billed annually, $125/seat/month billed monthly (5× more usage than standard)
- Seat range — 5 to 150 people. Mix and match seat types is allowed.
- Self-serve purchase; no sales call required
Claude Enterprise
- $20/seat base — plus usage billed at API rates (cost scales with model and task)
- No published seat minimum; aimed at large organizations operating at scale
- Self-serve and sales-assisted variants
- Volume and multi-year terms negotiable through Anthropic’s sales team
Full cost breakdown including implementation →
What Enterprise adds over Team
Everything Team has, plus the following governance and compliance capabilities:
- Admin spend limits at the user and org level
- Role-based access with fine-grained permissioning
- SCIM — System for Cross-domain Identity Management (automated user lifecycle)
- Audit logs across prompts, tool calls, and admin actions
- Compliance API for observability and monitoring
- Custom data retention controls
- Network-level access control and IP allowlisting
- HIPAA-ready offering available
- Google Docs cataloging
If none of those apply to your environment, Team usually covers you — including the Claude Cowork desktop and MCP connectors.
Where Claude Cowork fits
Claude Cowork — the agentic desktop app that connects Claude to your systems — ships on both Team and Enterprise. If you’re choosing between plans, Cowork access is not the deciding factor.
What is? Governance. If you need SCIM-driven user lifecycle, full audit logs, custom retention, HIPAA posture, or IP allowlisting, you need Enterprise. If you don’t, Team at $20–$25/seat is the faster and cheaper path to the same product.
When Claude Team is the right choice
- Teams of 5–150 people
- You want Claude Cowork, Claude Code, Claude.ai, and SSO — and you don’t need SCIM or audit logs
- You want self-serve purchase without a sales motion
- You want monthly billing or simple annual commits
- You prefer predictable flat per-seat pricing over seat + API usage
When Claude Enterprise is the right choice
- You need SCIM (auto-provision / auto-deprovision through your IdP)
- You need audit logs for compliance or security review
- You need custom data retention or regulatory posture beyond defaults
- You need role-based access with fine-grained permissioning
- You need network-level access control or IP allowlisting
- You need HIPAA-ready deployment
- You want per-user and org-level spend limits
- You have enough seats that usage billed at API rates pencils out
Migration — Team to Enterprise
- Request an Enterprise quote from Anthropic sales
- Workspace migration (Anthropic handles; typically 1–3 days)
- SCIM configuration, audit log setup, role mapping (Tinkso handles in 2–3 days as part of setup service)
- Admin policies migration (retention, residency, IP allowlist)
- Compliance review sign-off
Typical migration time: about a week for a clean environment.
Decision matrix
| If… | Then… |
|---|---|
| 5–150 users, no SCIM / audit / HIPAA requirement | Claude Team |
| Under 5 users | Claude Pro or Max (individual plans) |
| Need SCIM or audit logs | Claude Enterprise |
| Need HIPAA-ready posture | Claude Enterprise |
| Need fine-grained role-based access or IP allowlisting | Claude Enterprise |
| 150+ users in a single workspace | Claude Enterprise |
| Already on Team, hitting governance limits | Migrate to Enterprise |
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