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title: "Claude Pricing in Australia 2026: Every Plan in AUD, for Business | Croissant & Baguette"
description: "Claude Pro is A$34 a month in Australia, Max A$170 or A$340, Team A$34 to A$43 a seat, GST included. Every plan, what a business needs, and set-up costs."
url: "https://croissantbaguette.com.au/guides/claude-pricing-in-australia/"
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# How much does Claude cost in Australia?

https://croissantbaguette.com.au/guides/claude-pricing-in-australia/

Claude Pro is A$34 a month in Australia, Max A$170 or A$340, Team A$34 to A$43 a seat, GST included. Every plan, what a business needs, and set-up costs.

## How much does Claude cost in Australia?

A$34 a month for Pro, A$170 or A$340 for Max, and A$34 to A$43 a seat for a team, with GST included, as Anthropic shows its prices to an Australian visitor. What each plan changes for a business, what comes with a paid plan at no extra cost, and what it costs to have Claude set up properly.

**Quick answer**

- **Pro** A$34 a month, A$28 yearly
- **Max** A$170 or A$340 a month
- **Team** A$34–43 a seat a month
- **Team Premium** A$170–213 a seat a month
- **Enterprise** US$20 a seat, plus usage
- **GST** included in these prices

Anthropic's prices for Australia, read on 22 October 2026.

## A$34 a month for one person, about A$34 to A$43 a seat for a business.

Claude Pro costs A$34 a month in Australia, or A$340 a year, about A$28 a month, and the prices Anthropic shows an Australian visitor include 10% GST. Max costs A$170 or A$340 a month for five or twenty times Pro's usage, billed monthly only. For a business, Team is the plan that changes the terms: A$43 a seat a month, or A$34 billed yearly, for two to 150 people, with Premium seats at A$213, or A$170 yearly, for the heaviest users. On Team and Enterprise your chats are not used to train Anthropic's models by default; on Free, Pro and Max that depends on a setting. Enterprise is US$20 a seat a month billed yearly, from 20 seats, plus every token at API rates, and it is priced in US dollars. The parts people expect to pay extra for are included. Claude for Small Business, 43 ready-made workflows that work inside Xero, MYOB, Square, Shopify and other tools, comes with every paid plan, and so do the directory's connectors and Cowork, the Claude desktop agent. What costs money is the setting up: the right plan, connectors with the right permissions, instructions that teach Claude your business, and a team that knows how to use it. Australian providers publish A$450 to A$1,500 plus GST for one session; we start at $1,500, and a custom connector for software that has none is typically $3,000 to $8,000.

## What each plan costs, and who it suits.

Anthropic's prices as its pricing page shows them to an Australian visitor on 22 October 2026, in Australian dollars with 10% GST included. Enterprise is the exception, priced in US dollars.

- **Free** $0 Chat on the web, desktop and phone, web search, files, code, connectors and one custom connector, at the lowest usage limit. — Trying Claude out. Not for business data until you have checked the training setting.
- **Pro · A$28 billed yearly** A$34 At least five times Free's usage per session, Claude Code, Cowork, projects, scheduled tasks, and Claude in Chrome and Microsoft 365. — One person using it every day.
- **Max 5x · billed monthly** A$170 Five times Pro's usage, priority at busy times and US$100 a month of API credits. — One heavy user, such as someone running long agent tasks or Claude Code all day.
- **Max 20x · billed monthly** A$340 Twenty times Pro's usage and US$200 a month of API credits. — The heaviest individual users.
- **Team Standard · A$34 billed yearly** A$43 a seat Two to 150 people, central billing, single sign-on, admin control of connectors, skills shared across the business, and no training on your content by default. — Any business with more than one person using it.
- **Team Premium · A$170 billed yearly** A$213 a seat Five times a Standard seat's usage, mixed with Standard seats in the same account. — The two or three people who use it all day.
- **[Enterprise · plus usage at API rates](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/9797531-what-is-the-enterprise-plan)** US$20 a seat Billed yearly from 20 seats, every token charged on top, with audit logs, role-based access, custom data retention and spend limits. — Larger or regulated organisations.

Prices from [claude.com/pricing](https://claude.com/pricing), read from Australia on 22 October 2026. Max is billed monthly only, and its API credits are in US dollars. In the iPhone app Apple sets its own prices: A$30 a month for Pro and A$199.99 or A$399.99 for Max.

## What changes from plan to plan.

The rows that matter to a business, from Anthropic's pricing page and help centre on 22 October 2026.

| Feature | Free | Pro | Max | Team | Enterprise |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Usage, per five-hour session | lowest | 5x Free or more | 5x or 20x Pro | above Pro, Premium 5x | billed per token |
| Cowork and Claude Code | no | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Claude for Small Business, 43 workflows | no | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Custom connectors, your own MCP server | one | yes | yes | owners add them | admins add them |
| Skills for everyone, set once by the owner | no | no | no | yes | yes |
| Single sign-on | no | no | no | yes | yes |
| Your chats train models | a setting | a setting | a setting | not by default | not by default |
| Audit logs and retention rules | no | no | no | no | yes |

From [claude.com/pricing](https://claude.com/pricing) and Anthropic's help centre, read on 22 October 2026. Anthropic's pricing table lists model training as opt-out on Free, Pro and Max.

## What it costs to have Claude set up properly.

The plan is a monthly bill. Making it useful is a one-off job, and this is what Australian providers publish for it.

- **Doing it yourself** $0 Anthropic's free courses and help centre, the directory's connectors, and an afternoon reading the permission screens. — Sole traders who are comfortable with settings pages.
- **A one-session set-up** A$450–1,500 The plan, the standard connectors and ready-made skills switched on, approvals set, and a walkthrough on the call. — Small teams on standard tools such as Xero, Google Workspace or Microsoft 365.
- **Set-up and a team workshop** from A$3,500 The same, plus half a day training each team on its own work. — Businesses rolling it out to ten or more people.
- **Connected and taught your business** from $1,500 Connectors with the permissions each one needs, instructions written for your business and its rules, tested on real tasks, and bug fixes for 12 months. — Teams that want Claude doing work in their systems, not only writing.
- **A custom connector** $3,000–8,000 For software that has no connector, such as an in-house system or an Australian tool missing from the directory, built and hosted for you. — Businesses whose key system is not in the directory.

Market prices from Australian providers' own pages, read on 22 October 2026 and left unnamed. Every price in this table excludes GST. On 22 October 2026 the directory had no connector for Employment Hero, Deputy, ServiceM8, Tradify, Simpro, Cin7, Reckon, Tyro or Afterpay.

## Five people on Claude for a year.

A five-person office on Xero and Google Workspace moves from personal ChatGPT and Claude accounts to one business account, so the chats stay out of model training and the owner controls what is connected. Everyone gets a Team Standard seat billed yearly, the Xero and Google connectors and Claude for Small Business are switched on, and the instructions are written once for the whole office.

- **Team** Five people, one business account
- **Plan** Team, Standard seats, billed yearly
- **Tools** Xero, Google Workspace
- **Set up by** us, at our starting price

- **Claude Team** A$2,040 five Standard seats at A$408 a year each
- **Set-up** A$1,650 connectors, permissions, instructions, walkthrough
- **Year one** A$3,690 GST included

**Then, each year**

- **Claude Team** A$2,040 five seats, billed yearly
- **Claude for Small Business** $0 comes with the plan
- **Xero and Google connectors** $0 from the directory

Billed monthly instead, the same five seats cost A$2,580 a year.

A worked example from Anthropic's prices for Australia on 22 October 2026 and our own price list, not a client's invoice. GST included throughout.

A heavy user changes the sum, not the plan. Moving one person to a Premium seat adds A$1,632 a year billed yearly and gives them five times the usage. Quitine, an online store we built, works the same way at its own scale: the client changes the store's pages from his own Claude, through instructions we wrote and a connector to its content editor.

## Who sets up Claude for businesses in Australia, and what to ask them.

- **Which plan, and why not a cheaper one.** Team for any business with staff. It is the plan where chats stay out of training by default and the owner controls the connectors.
- **Who owns the account.** Your business, on your card, with you as the owner. Whoever installs it should be a member you can remove.
- **What each connector may change.** Read-only first, then a written list of what Claude may change in Xero, the CRM or the inbox, and what waits for approval.
- **What the instructions cover, and who keeps them current.** A skill that knows your business and is updated when your systems change, not a page of prompts handed over once.
- **Where the data goes.** Anthropic is a US company. Under Australian Privacy Principle 8 you answer for personal information you send overseas, so ask what goes where.
- **We do.** Croissant & Baguette is a small studio with a network of Australian specialists. We connect Claude to the software a business already runs, write the instructions that teach it the business, and build a connector where none exists, as we have for an online store and a buyer's agent. — Built in Australia, never offshored.

## What we charge.

**Why the set-up costs more than a month of Claude** Because the plan is the cheap part. A Team seat costs less each month than an hour of an admin's time. What makes it useful is connecting it to the business with the right permissions and teaching it how you work, and that is either done once, properly, or redone every week by whoever is using it.

- **Automation Opportunity Assessment** free (one meeting · a written proposal, priced)
- **Automation build** from $8,000 (one process end to end, or an AI app · 12 months of bug fixes)
- **Claude & ChatGPT connector** from $1,500 (your own Claude or ChatGPT, connected to your software)
- **Managed** from $250/month (monitoring, fixes, monthly report · changes quoted)

What moves a set-up within those ranges:

- how many tools you connect, and whether each already has a connector
- how much of your business the instructions have to cover
- what Claude may change on its own, and what waits for approval
- how many people, and how many teams with different jobs
- a custom connector for software that has none

Indicative. Fixed price after the free assessment. Claude's subscription is paid to Anthropic, not to us.

## Ask away.

Nine things people ask about Claude's prices. Still one missing? [Ask us](https://croissantbaguette.com.au/contact/).

- **How much is Claude Pro in AUD?** A$34 a month, or A$340 a year, which works out at about A$28 a month, as Anthropic's pricing page showed it to an Australian visitor on 22 October 2026, with GST included. Bought inside the iPhone app, Apple charges A$30 a month instead. Pro gives at least five times the Free plan's usage per session and adds Claude Code, Cowork and projects.
- **Is Claude available in Australia?** Yes. Australia is on Anthropic's list of supported countries, and its prices are shown to Australian visitors in Australian dollars with GST included. Anthropic opened a Sydney office in April 2026. Your data is still processed overseas: Anthropic's own options are the United States or global. A business that needs it kept in Australia can use Claude through Amazon Bedrock, which can keep it between Sydney and Melbourne.
- **Does Claude charge GST in Australia?** Yes, the Australian prices include 10% GST. Anthropic's billing settings have an optional tax ID field, but its help centre does not say whether entering an ABN removes the GST, and a GST-registered Anthropic Australia Pty Ltd has existed since December 2025. Check which company your invoice comes from, and ask your accountant how to treat it before you claim the GST back.
- **What is the difference between Claude Team Premium and Max?** Who it is for. Max is a personal plan at A$170 or A$340 a month, with five or twenty times Pro's usage. A Team Premium seat costs A$213 a month, or A$170 billed yearly, gives five times a Standard seat's usage, and sits inside a business account with single sign-on, admin control of connectors and no training on your content by default.
- **Does the Claude Team plan have SSO?** Yes. Single sign-on comes with Team, along with central billing, admin control of remote and local connectors, skills shared across the organisation and no model training on your content by default. Enterprise adds what larger organisations need on top: user provisioning through SCIM, audit logs, role-based access, IP allowlisting, custom data retention and spending limits per person and per organisation.
- **Is Claude for Small Business free?** It costs nothing on top of a paid plan. Anthropic says it is available on every paid Claude plan and recommends Team for a business with more than one person. Expanded on 15 September 2026, it holds 43 ready-made workflows, such as closing the month or paying the bills, that work inside connected tools including Xero, MYOB, Square, Stripe and Shopify and start in approval mode.
- **Does Claude use my business data for training?** Not on Team or Enterprise: Anthropic's commercial terms say it may not train models on customer content, unless you join its development partner programme. On Free, Pro and Max a Model Improvement setting decides, and Anthropic's pricing table lists training there as opt-out. If you allow it, de-identified chats may be kept for up to five years; if not, deleted chats go within 30 days.
- **Is Claude Team cheaper than ChatGPT Business?** About the same. ChatGPT Business is US$25 a seat a month, or US$20 billed yearly, and OpenAI's Australian page shows A$28; Claude Team Standard is A$43, or A$34 yearly, with GST included. Both start at two seats and keep business data out of training by default. Microsoft 365 Copilot Business is A$31.40 a seat a month paid yearly, plus GST, on top of a Microsoft 365 plan.
- **Can Claude connect to Xero and MYOB?** Yes. Both publish official connectors in Claude's directory, Xero since April 2026 and MYOB since July 2026, at no extra cost from Anthropic. What they can read and change, and how to connect them without risking your books, is in our guide to [Claude, ChatGPT and Xero](https://croissantbaguette.com.au/guides/connect-claude-or-chatgpt-to-xero/).

## Sources

Read on 22 October 2026. Anthropic's prices were read from Australia, as its pricing page shows them to an Australian visitor.

- **[Claude plans and pricing](https://claude.com/pricing)** Anthropic · every plan, GST included for Australia
- **[What is the Team plan?](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/9266767)** Claude Help Center · two to 150 seats
- **[What is the Max plan?](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/11049741-what-is-the-max-plan)** Claude Help Center · monthly only
- **[What is the Enterprise plan?](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/9797531-what-is-the-enterprise-plan)** Claude Help Center · seats plus usage at API rates
- **[Claude for Small Business](https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-small-business)** Anthropic · 13 May 2026
- **[Claude for Small Business, new workflows and integrations](https://claude.com/blog/claude-for-small-business-launches-new-workflows-integrations-and-training-programs)** Anthropic · 15 September 2026, every paid plan
- **[Get started with custom connectors using remote MCP](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/11175166-get-started-with-custom-connectors-using-remote-mcp)** Claude Help Center · plans and who can add them
- **[Is my data used for model training?](https://privacy.claude.com/en/articles/10023580-is-my-data-used-for-model-training)** Anthropic Privacy Center · consumer plans
- **[How do you use personal data in model training?](https://privacy.claude.com/en/articles/7996885-how-do-you-use-personal-data-in-model-training)** Anthropic Privacy Center · Team and Enterprise
- **[Add or update your tax or VAT ID](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/9889408-add-or-update-your-paid-claude-account-s-tax-or-vat-id)** Claude Help Center · the tax ID field
- **[Data residency](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/manage-claude/data-residency)** Claude Platform docs · United States or global
- **[Anthropic's fourth office in Asia-Pacific, Sydney](https://anthropic.com/news/sydney-fourth-office-asia-pacific)** Anthropic · 10 March 2026
- **[ChatGPT Business pricing](https://openai.com/business/pricing/)** OpenAI · read from Australia
- **[Microsoft 365 Copilot Business](https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/microsoft-365/copilot/business)** Microsoft Australia · prices exclude GST
- **[Australian businesses importing services](https://www.ato.gov.au/businesses-and-organisations/gst-excise-and-indirect-taxes/gst/in-detail/rules-for-specific-transactions/international-transactions/australian-business-importing-goods-and-services)** ATO · GST on services from overseas suppliers

- **[Claude, ChatGPT and Xero.](https://croissantbaguette.com.au/guides/connect-claude-or-chatgpt-to-xero/)** What an AI assistant can do in your books, and how to connect it safely.
- **[Claude and your ads.](https://croissantbaguette.com.au/guides/can-claude-run-your-google-ads/)** What an AI can safely do in Google Ads and Meta, and the limits it needs.
- **[AI automation costs.](https://croissantbaguette.com.au/guides/how-much-does-ai-automation-cost-in-australia/)** What it costs to take one process off your team, with a real system itemised.
- **[AI Automation.](https://croissantbaguette.com.au/ai-automation/)** The jobs we automate, and how the work is done.

## Want Claude set up properly?

One meeting about the tools you use and the work you want off your plate, then a written proposal. It names the plan, the connectors and what Claude may change on its own, with a fixed price for the set-up.