Enterprise AI agent platform cost per agent vs per seat
Standard Compute prices AI agents per key. Every person and every agent gets its own key on a flat monthly plan, and the plan price is that key's compute budget. You pay for the agents and people that run, at a cost that is fixed before the month starts.
Per-seat licenses charge for people whether or not they use the agent, and metered per-token billing moves with every request. A plan per key gives each agent its own fixed budget.
Per seat vs per agent vs metered: which is better
The three pricing models side by side.
| Per seat | Per agent or key (Standard Compute) | Metered per token | |
|---|---|---|---|
| You pay for | Per seat: Each named user | Per agent or key (Standard Compute): Each person or agent with a key | Metered per token: Every token used |
| Monthly cost | Per seat: Fixed by headcount | Per agent or key (Standard Compute): Fixed by key | Metered per token: Moves with usage |
| Agents that run all day | Per seat: Limited by the vendor's usage limits | Per agent or key (Standard Compute): Run until the key's monthly budget is used | Metered per token: Cost grows with every run |
| Light users | Per seat: Pay the full seat | Per agent or key (Standard Compute): Get a smaller plan, from $19 per month | Metered per token: Pay little |
| Overruns | Per seat: Not applicable | Per agent or key (Standard Compute): None. The key stops at its budget, or tops off from a prepaid company balance | Metered per token: Unless you set caps |
Enterprise license cost for unlimited terminal AI agent usage versus metered plans
Point Claude Code and Claude Desktop at Standard Compute and your people stop hitting 5-hour and weekly caps: agents run until the monthly budget is used.
Every plan's price is its compute budget, and routing sends each step to the cheapest model that can do it, so the same budget covers more work than paying for one frontier model on every step. Plans run from Starter at $19 to Scale at $2,499 per key per month.
Typical pricing for enterprise-grade AI agents that include SSO
On Standard Compute the platform for companies is free, and enterprise features are priced on their own, so you buy what your security review asks for. Enterprise includes all of them for $1,499 per month.
| Feature | Price per month |
|---|---|
| Teams platform: people, roles, per-person and per-app keys, budgets, usage report | Price per month: $0 |
| Europe rule and zero data retention | Price per month: $0 |
| SSO with Microsoft Entra ID or any SAML provider | Price per month: $399 |
| Provider allow-lists | Price per month: $199 |
| Admin audit log | Price per month: $199 |
| Request audit export | Price per month: $299 |
| Signed DPA | Price per month: $299 |
| 99.9% uptime SLA and 12-month request logs | Price per month: $399 |
| Enterprise: all of the above | Price per month: $1,499 |
Key plans are billed on top, per person or agent. See pricing.
Pricing comparison of AI agent platforms for compliance teams
Compliance teams usually need four things before an agent goes live: where prompts are processed, whether they are kept or used for training, who can sign in, and a record of what ran. On Standard Compute the first two are free settings.
Set a Europe rule for your company, a team or a single key, and every request, including retries and fallbacks, is served only by approved European inference endpoints. If no European endpoint can serve it, the request is refused before your prompt is sent.
Standard Compute never trains on your prompts or outputs. With a region rule or zero retention turned on, every request goes only to providers that commit not to train on it.
Sign our Data Processing Agreement in the dashboard in minutes. It commits us to no training on your data, no retention of your content, and breach notification within 72 hours.
Questions from IT, security and finance
- Is per agent or per seat pricing better for enterprises?
- Per agent suits companies where some people and services use AI heavily and others rarely. Each agent gets a budget sized to its work, instead of every employee paying for the same seat.
- How much does an AI agent cost per month on Standard Compute?
- Each key has a flat monthly plan from Starter at $19 to Scale at $2,499, and the plan price is its compute budget. The Teams platform is $0.
- What does managed agent cost per execution look like?
- On a plan key each run draws from the key's fixed monthly budget, so the month's cost is known in advance. With pay as you go, each run is billed by usage, with monthly caps per key and for the company.
- Do agents hit 5-hour or weekly limits?
- No. Keys have no 5-hour or weekly windows. Agents run until the monthly budget is used.