As a systems engineer, I fell in love with Claude last year and quickly grew frustrated with hitting the limits of Claude Professional at $20/month...

I have a single user Google Workspace enterprise account for personal use, which allows me create Google Groups with practically unlimited email aliases for email DL lists, all for $12.00 a month.

To sign up for Claude Team you team at least five different usersbon a Team level account all using the same bespoke domain email address, [email protected], [email protected], etc.

So I signed up for Claude Teams account, using the aliases [email protected], [email protected], etc; but, Anthropic requires SMS code usef verification in order to actually create a user account when trying to accept an invite sent to the alias group email distribution list, e.g. [email protected], [email protected], etc; are all Google Workspace groups that simple redirect all messages to my main email address.

So, having about three older pixels at home that take esim and nano sim, I signed up for the $5 a month(No Data), 100 minute, unlimited plan on Tello.com and within 5 minutes had a fully working esim accepting Anthropic verification SMS codes required for account sign up.

You only have to verify the SMS number once, so I only paid $5 one time for a burner Tello number. I have never been asked again to verify my account with SMS, only URL verification to the email address, that is a single Google Email DL list for each of my claude accounts.

I have four Claude1,Claude2,Claude3,[email protected] accounts, and my productivity and limited were almost never hit.

I hit a limit about every 2 hours on Claude Teams, this is per EACH Claude Teams Plan user account... So when I max out one, after tens of thousands of lines of code generation in most cases, I simply push the work; drop the link to the new GH branch, and select the files to continue with in a new session.

I used this same approach to test Claude Max Pro, and f***, I hit the limit within 20 minutes every single time...

I could get NO deep or long session work done.

I’d like to upgrade to a team plan but need to find 4 others to join since they only offer to groups of 5 or more for $25 each/month if you pay upfront. If you’re interested lmk!

Anybody have any insights on this, it seems a bit of an oversight. We either pay $17 per month on individual plans for our team (massive accounting headaches) or we pay $20 for Team users, but without Claude Code we are stuck.

edit 12/07/2024 No complaints on the usage limits, almost never hit them while sending 10k+ lines of code in long chats.

edit: We’ve reached 9 members, at $33ish / mo, it’s adding up beyond what I could comfortably pay if i’m not paid back. So I will not be accepting more people! It only took a domain name and coordination to make the team plan work.

Notes on Team Plan: I can report that limits are different per team member. There are ‘projects’ that can be private or public to the team. Limits feels significantly higher. Possibly 2-4x in my limited experience. Normally, I hit the usage limit a few times a day, but on the team plan I did not have that problem. We did notice that the use of photos anywhere in a chat drops the number of messages though. Not sure why.

To go further into that… While I was working with Claude on a multi file python project - having it edit and repeat entirely back code - just adding two images at the start was how I have only ever hit the usage limit. While working with only python and text based files, I was able to go back and forth 30+ times with no problems. I ran out of thoughts before I ran out of messages.

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Hello,

I am a developer who actively uses Claude/ChatGPT for software development, I often hit the limit on my account and have considered paying for a second account. However I saw there is a teams plan for a bit more in cost (less than a second subscription), but offers higher limits (unknown how much higher). I thought I'd consider reaching out to a subreddit i've been following and aligns with my workflow and tools we use.

Therefore, I am looking for developers/AI users who are looking to start a small long term project as a team, this would allow us to subscribe to the Claude Team's plans which we can split in cost. The project doesn't need to be significant, just enough for all to collaborate in some form - keeping the team active.

The base Claude subscription is $20 per person / month
The teams plan is $25 per person / month*
* Annual discount with minimum 5 members
Monthly is $30.

Annually a team member would have to pay $30/month instead of $20/month, or $300/year vs $240/year.

This gives access to "Higher usage limits", which would benefit everyone on the team.

For background: I work with full stack web applications and automation scripting in python. I'm sure I can find a way to contribute a piece of this project.

Thanks and looking forward to hearing from this sub.

Anthropic Team Plan Page