Claude.ai Team minimum team size cut from 5 seats to 2
Anthropic lowered the Claude.ai Team plan's minimum team size from 5 seats to 2, widening self-serve access to small teams while leaving all seat prices ($20/$25 Standard, $100/$125 Premium) unchanged.
Claude.ai Team required a minimum of 5 seats (mix of Standard and Premium), per claude.com/pricing as of the 2026-07-23 capture.
Claude.ai Team now requires a minimum of 2 seats ("For teams of 2 to 150"), per claude.com/pricing as of 2026-07-28. Standard seats remain $20/seat/mo annual ($25 monthly); Premium seats remain $100/$125.
Anthropic lowered the entry threshold for its Claude.ai Team plan: the pricing page now reads “For teams of 2 to 150,” down from the 5-seat minimum documented as recently as July 23, 2026. Seat pricing itself is unchanged — Standard seats are still $20/seat/mo on annual billing ($25 billed monthly) and Premium seats are still $100/$125.
The change makes Team self-serve for pairs and trios that previously had to either buy 5 seats they didn’t need or stay on individual Pro/Max plans. It’s a pure packaging move — no price on any seat tier changed — but it materially widens who can adopt Team without a sales conversation, competing more directly with small-team tiers from ChatGPT Team (2-seat minimum) and other consumer-AI Team plans.
Claude Opus 5 (model ID claude-opus-5) launched as the new recommended default model for complex agentic coding and enterprise work, priced identically to Opus 4.8 at $5/$25 per 1M tokens with matching cache, batch, and Fast-mode multipliers — a capability refresh, not a repricing. Opus 4.8, 4.7, 4.6, and 4.5 remain available as legacy models at unchanged pricing; Opus 4.1 is now scheduled to retire August 5, 2026.