This article explains how Team and Enterprise plan Owners and Primary Owners can purchase extra usage, allowing members to continue using Claude and Claude Code after reaching usage limits for their assigned seat.
What is extra usage?
Enabling extra usage allows team members on all seat types to continue working with Claude and Claude Code after reaching their included usage limits. Instead of being blocked upon hitting limits, members can seamlessly continue their workflows by purchasing extra usage.
How extra usage works
After an organization Owner or Primary Owner configures your account for extra usage, you’ll start using this as soon as you reach your seat's usage limit. Your subsequent usage will be billed at standard API pricing rates as you continue working.
For Team plans: Admins can pre-purchase extra usage that they can control using spend limits.
For Enterprise plans: Extra usage is billed at the end of each month based on your actual usage during the billing period.
How to enable extra usage
For Team Owners
Log in to your Team organization as an Owner or Primary Owner.
Navigate to Settings > Usage.
Click “Enable” in Extra usage to turn this on for your organization.
You’ll be prompted to pay for extra usage.
Next, you’ll see the option to enable auto-reload; choose “Reload when balance reaches” and enter the amount to reload.
Set a monthly spending cap to apply organization-wide.
Enable extra usage for specific users or the entire organization.
For Enterprise Owners
Log in to your Enterprise organization as an Owner or Primary Owner.
Go to Settings > Usage.
Click “Enable” in Extra usage to turn this on for your organization.
You’ll be prompted to set monthly limits for the organization as a whole, by seat tier, or for individual members.
How can members switch to extra usage once it's enabled?
Once an organization Owner has enabled extra usage:
Continue using Claude or Claude Code normally.
When you reach your usage limit and choose to continue working, your extra usage will be tracked and billed according to your plan type.
Organization-wide spend controls
Owners and Primary Owners of Team and Enterprise plans can set organization-wide spending limits to ensure predictable costs while providing flexibility for critical work.
Spending cap
After navigating to Settings > Usage and enabling this feature, Owners can set a monthly spending cap that applies to the entire organization's extra usage. The Spending cap section will show the current limit (if any) or Unlimited:
Clicking on “Adjust limit” opens a modal where you can either input an amount and click “Set cap,” or click “Set to unlimited” to remove the organization-wide monthly spend cap:
Changes to your organization’s overall spending cap go into effect immediately.
Seat spending caps for Enterprise plans
Owners and Primary Owners on Enterprise plans only can set spending limits that apply to all users within a specific seat tier. Clicking the pencil icon next to the current limit for either standard or premium users allows you to edit this:
Clicking that icon opens a modal where you can either input an amount and click “Set cap,” or click “Set to unlimited” to remove the cap for that seat type:
User-level spend controls
Owners and Primary Owners can also set individual monthly spending caps for each member by finding Individual seat limits and clicking the “...” button next to the user, then “Edit limit”:
Enter the amount and click “Set cap.” Alternatively, selecting “Set to unlimited” will remove that member’s monthly spend cap (they will still be subject to any organization seat caps).
This allows Owners fine control over extra usage, so you can set limits for different members based on their roles or individual needs. Once a user reaches their defined spend cap, this will automatically pause their extra usage until the end of the month. They will need to wait for their usage limits to reset before using Claude again.
Note that the Spending caps by user section has a MTD Spend column, so you can track members’ usage patterns and optimize seat assignments.
Extra Usage Token Pricing
Extra usage is priced the same as API usage – see below for input and output costs by model:
Model | Input | Output | Prompt caching (Write) | Prompt caching (Read) |
Claude Opus 4.1 | $15 / MTok | $75 / MTok | $18.75 / MTok | $1.50 / MTok |
Claude Sonnet 4 | $3 / MTok (Prompts ≤ 200K tokens)
$6 / MTok (Prompts > 200K tokens) | $15 / MTok (Prompts ≤ 200K tokens)
$22.50 / MTok (Prompts > 200K tokens) | $3.75 / MTok (Prompts ≤ 200K tokens)
$7.50 / MTok (Prompts > 200K tokens) | $0.30 / MTok (Prompts ≤ 200K tokens)
$0.60 / MTok (Prompts > 200K tokens) |
Claude Opus 4 | $15 / MTok | $75 / MTok | $18.75 / MTok | $1.50 / MTok |
Claude Sonnet 3.7 | $3 / MTok | $15 / MTok | $3.75 / MTok | $0.30 / MTok |
Claude Opus 3 | $15 / MTok | $75 / MTok | $18.75 / MTok | $1.50 / MTok |
Claude Haiku 3.5 | $0.80 / MTok | $4 / MTok | $1 / MTok | $0.08/ MTok |
Note: The pricing table above shows standard API rates that apply to your extra usage. While prompt caching may optimize costs automatically in certain contexts, your actual charges will be based on the tokens consumed during your Claude and Claude Code usage at these published rates.
Usage limits and extra usage activation
Team plan premium seats
There is a weekly Claude Code usage cap of 50-95 hours of Sonnet 4 usage and 3-7 hours of Opus 4 usage. If you reach your weekly cap, you can switch to extra usage if enabled for your organization.
Enterprise plan premium seats
If you reach your weekly cap, you’ll switch to extra usage if enabled for your organization or seat tier level. Enterprise plan users looking for more specific information about usage limits should reach out to your Account Manager or our Sales team.
FAQs
What happens when I reach my extra usage limit?
If your account is configured for extra usage and you exceed your set spending limit, you won’t be able to use Claude or Claude Code again until the next billing period or until your limits are adjusted.
Does extra usage apply to both Claude and Claude Code?
Yes, extra usage can be leveraged across both Claude and Claude Code.
Can extra usage be disabled completely?
Yes, Owners and Primary Owners can choose to disable extra usage entirely, which means that members of the organization will be unable to continue working once they reach their usage limits and will need to wait for them to reset.