Using Claude Code with your Team or Enterprise plan | Claude Help Center

What is Claude Code?

Claude Code is a command line tool that gives you access to Claude models directly in your terminal, allowing you to delegate complex coding tasks while maintaining transparency and control. With premium seats on Team and Enterprise plans, you can access Claude on the web, desktop, and mobile apps, plus Claude Code in your terminal with one unified subscription.

Why use Claude and Claude Code?

Combine two powerful AI products in one unified subscription:

How to connect Claude Code to your Team or Enterprise plan

Step 1: Purchase premium seats

Step 2: Download and install Claude Code

Step 3: Authenticate with the Team or Enterprise account tied to the premium seat

Having trouble using your Team or Enterprise account to access Claude Code?

If you're not seeing the option to authenticate with your preferred account, follow these steps to update Claude Code:

How do usage limits work?

Team plan members with premium seats:

Opus 4.5 is now your default model.

Enterprise plan members with premium seats:

Opus 4.5 is now available. Opus 4.5 consumes your weekly limit faster than Sonnet, so we recommend Sonnet 4.5 for everyday use.

Premium seats include enhanced usage limits compared to standard seats. Note that usage is tracked across both Claude Code and Claude (on the web, desktop, and mobile).

For Team plans

Average users can send approximately 225 messages with Claude every five hours, and have weekly usage limits of 50-95 hours of Sonnet 4 usage and 3-7 hours of Opus 4 usage. This will vary based on factors such as codebase size and user settings like auto-accept mode. Heavy Opus users with large codebases or those running multiple Claude Code instances in parallel will hit their limits sooner.

For Enterprise plans

If you’re on an Enterprise plan and looking for more specific information about usage limits, please reach out to your Account Manager or our Sales team.

What happens when you hit usage limits

Your Team or Enterprise organization can enable extra usage to allow team members on all seat types to continue working with Claude and Claude Code after reaching their included usage limits. See this article for more information: Extra Usage for Claude for Work (Team and Enterprise) Plans.