What does Claude Code cost per month?
Claude Code comes with Claude's paid plans, each with a usage allowance that resets every few hours and weekly; past it you can turn on usage credits billed at API rates. With an API key, it is billed per token at API list prices. Anthropic's pricing
Estimate your month
Quote: 10 developers, 21 working days
- API key (pay as you go)$2,828$283 per developer
Every token billed at API list price.
Includes $283 per developer of token usage at API rates.
- Pro$200$20 per developer
Claude Code within the Pro usage allowance; usage credits at API rates after that.
At this usage ($283 at API rates) you would likely hit the plan's limits, then pay extra only if you turn on usage credits.
- Max$1,000$100 per developer
5× Pro usage every 5 hours and every week.
At this usage ($283 at API rates) you would likely hit the plan's limits, then pay extra only if you turn on usage credits.
- Ultra$2,000$200 per developer
10× Pro usage every week, no 5-hour limit.
At this usage ($283 at API rates) you would likely hit the plan's limits, then pay extra only if you turn on usage credits.
- Team, standard seat$250$25 per developer
Claude Code included; usage credits at API rates past the seat allowance.
At this usage ($283 at API rates) you would likely hit the plan's limits, then pay extra only if you turn on usage credits.
- Team, premium seat$1,250$125 per developer
5× the usage of a standard seat.
At this usage ($283 at API rates) you would likely hit the plan's limits, then pay extra only if you turn on usage credits.
- Enterprise (billed annually, 20-seat minimum)$3,028$303 per developer
Seat price plus usage at API rates.
Includes $283 per developer of token usage at API rates.
Subscription allowances aren't published in dollars, so for those plans we show the seat price and flag when your usage would likely run into the limits.
Reality check
Anthropic's Claude Code docs: across enterprise deployments, the average cost is around $13 per developer per active day and $150–250 per developer per month, with 90% of users below $30 per active day. Claude Code docs, Manage costs
How this estimate works
Seat prices are the vendor's list prices for monthly billing, checked 2026-10-31. Usage is not measured from your team: it comes from our simulation of an agent working a 5-point ticket, run 20,000 times per setup, priced at Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Claude Haiku 5.5 API list prices. A month of many tasks averages out, so we use the average cost per task.
Treat it as an order of magnitude. Real bills depend on your codebase, prompts and tool. Method and sources.
Claude Code is a product of Anthropic. This page is independent and not affiliated with any model or tool vendor.
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