Claude Team / Claude Code pricing per seat — and when API wins
Official anchors (verify): Pro ≈ $20/mo; Team ≈ $25–30/seat/mo (annual vs monthly, seat minimums apply); API pay-as-you-go with per-model rates that change often.
Seat vs API — the 30-second math
Usage profile
Better fit
Heavy daily coding agent use (Claude Code)
Seat — flat cost beats token burn
Occasional chat + your own scripts
API with a hard monthly cap
5+ engineers, mixed usage
Team seats + API for automation
Team-plan resale / shared seats
Most vendor ToS prohibit reselling or sharing seats outside your organization. "White-label seat resale" offers you see online are usually ToS violations that end in bans. We cover this market so you don't get burned — we don't sell seats.