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by andyferris 14 days ago
I’m confused why a business would allow (non-data-science/agent harness devs) to pay per token instead of eg an Anthropic business premium seat? A monthly subscription seems pretty straight forward for the accountants, no?
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You aren't allowed to use the same super cheap subscriptions if your company is big enough.
Oh wow! Team is still ok but Enterprise is excluded.

That’s… quite harsh. I don’t normally want to speak up for BigCorp but it seems like they are getting gouged.

That no longer exists.. Anthropic business is now seat + usage billed.

https://claude.com/pricing#team-&-enterprise

I believe that Enterprise plans have no bundled usage.

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/9797531-what-is-the-e...

At this point the subsidized rates are only available with individual plans. In principle your workplace can pay for an individual plan for you, but for compliance reasons that is likely only feasible at smaller places that are primarily open source oriented (so there's little risk of proprietary code leaking).