How much does Claude Code cost — Claude Pro vs Team vs API?
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Claude Code Developer Guide
Three billing options:
- Claude Pro ($20/mo): unlimited Claude Code usage with model auto-routing. Best for solo devs — effectively flat-rate AI pair-programming.
- Claude Team ($25/seat/mo, 5+ seats): Pro features + admin controls + shared workspace + SSO. Best for engineering teams.
- Anthropic API (pay-per-token): $3/M input + $15/M output for Sonnet, $15/M + $75/M for Opus. With prompt caching enabled, repeated reads of
vendor/drop ~90% of input cost. Best for pipelined / CI / sub-agent-heavy workflows.
For most Magento dev work, Claude Pro flat rate is the right answer — you don’t want to think about per-token cost while shipping. For agentic / parallel sub-agent workflows, API with prompt caching is more economical.
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