Claude Code for teams, with a budget for every developer
CodeRouter Team is AI spend management for engineering teams that use Claude Code, Cursor, Aider and other coding agents. Each engineer gets their own key, every request is routed to a model that can handle it, and admins set budgets per member, per project and for the whole company. $19 per developer per month, plus model usage at list price +8%.
What it costs
$19 per developer per month
A seat is an active team member, owner included. Adding or removing a member is prorated on the next invoice.
Model usage at list price +8%
Billed from a prepaid team balance. Top-ups from $100, by card or US bank transfer (ACH); optional auto top-up. Admins get an email when the balance drops below $20 and when it runs out — at $0 requests pause until someone tops up.
No included usage, no overage cap
Your budgets are the limit. Every request is charged at the routed model's list price +8%.
Up to 50 API keys, 2,400 requests a minute
One key per engineer, tagged with a project if you want project budgets.
Example: 10 developers
At our own team's typical usage — about $86 of routed model cost per developer per month, measured on CodeRouter's own engineers (May–September 2026, see Claude Code pricing) — 10 developers would cost about:
Your usage will differ. Seat-only plans such as Claude Team ($25 Standard, $125 Premium per seat billed monthly) cost less when everyone stays within their usage limits; usage billing has no plan limits and shows exactly who spends what.
What admins get
One key per engineer
Invite members by email; each creates their own key, so every request is attributed to a person and, if tagged, a project. Keys are stored only as a hash and shown once.
Budgets per member, project and company
Monthly budgets in dollars, reset on the 1st (UTC). Email to admins at 80%. At 100%: downgrade to cheaper models (Opus and Sonnet are taken out) or pause — a team setting. The company cap always blocks.
Spend you can see
Spend by member, by project and by model, a daily trend, and CSV export.
Spend, not prompts
Admins see requests, models, tokens and cost — never prompts or responses. The team dashboard doesn't read request content at all.
A switch for content storage
Owners and admins can turn off "Store request content". Then only metadata (tokens, cost, model) is stored, and requests are routed by the rules classifier instead of the judgment model.
Revoke a member's keys
Revoke all of a member's keys, or deactivate the member, from the dashboard. Team keys are checked on every request, so it takes effect immediately.
Routing on every request
Each request starts on the cheapest tier that can handle it — Claude Haiku 5.5, Kimi K2.6, Claude Sonnet 5.5, Claude Opus 5.5 — and moves up only when tests or errors show a failure or an agent stops making progress. Sessions stay on one model so the prompt cache stays warm.
Works across your tools
Claude Code, Cursor, Aider, Cline, Continue.dev, OpenClaw and the OpenAI SDK; GitHub Copilot through LiteLLM. One bill for all of them.
What the dashboard looks like
What Team doesn't do (yet)
- No SSO and no audit-log export. Members sign in with Google or with a one-time link sent to their work email (Microsoft 365 or any other address). If you need SSO today, Claude Team and Cursor Teams include it, and Claude Enterprise adds SCIM and audit logs.
- No region selection.
- No picking the model by hand. Team routes every request, and explicit model names are ignored. Direct mode, where the model you name answers, is on pay-as-you-go accounts.
- No included usage. Every request is billed from the team balance.
How it compares with other team plans
| Plan | Seat price | Model usage | Spend controls |
|---|---|---|---|
| CodeRouter Team | $19/developer/month | All usage at list +8%, routed across Claude, Kimi and DeepSeek models | Budgets per member, project and company; downgrade or pause at 100% |
| Claude Team | $25 Standard / $125 Premium per seat billed monthly ($20 / $100 annually) | Included, with usage limits per seat; Claude models | User and organization spend controls |
| Claude Enterprise | $20/seat/month billed annually, 20-seat minimum | All usage at API rates | Admins set user and org spend limits |
| Cursor Teams | From $30/user/month | Pooled usage; third-party models such as Claude at API list price plus $0.25 per million tokens | Usage analytics; granular and group spend limits on Enterprise |
| GitHub Copilot Business | $19/granted seat/month | 1,900 AI credits per user, pooled; $0.01 per credit beyond | Admins set usage limits and whether extra paid usage is allowed |
Third-party prices checked 2026-11-03 on claude.com/pricing, cursor.com/pricing, Cursor Token Rate and GitHub Copilot plans. The plans aren't exclusive: CodeRouter sits behind the tools, so a team can keep its Cursor seats and route Claude Code through CodeRouter.
Getting started
- Choose Team on the pricing page (or start here) and add balance from $100, by card or ACH.
- Create the team and invite your engineers by email.
- Each engineer creates their own key and points their tool at CodeRouter. For Claude Code:
If Claude Code still shows your Claude subscription instead of API usage billing, run claude logout and start it again. Other tools: integration docs.
- Set a company cap, a default member budget, project budgets and what happens at 100%.
FAQ
How much does CodeRouter Team cost?
$19 per developer per month — a seat is an active team member, owner included, and adding or removing members is prorated — plus all model usage at provider list price +8%, paid from a prepaid team balance. Top-ups start at $100, by card or US bank transfer (ACH), with optional auto top-up. There is no included usage and no overage cap: your budgets are the limit.
Can team admins read our prompts?
No. Team admins see spend and metadata — requests, models, tokens, cost per member and project — never prompts or responses. Separately, CodeRouter stores a short excerpt of each request for up to 180 days to improve routing; team owners and admins can turn that off, and then only metadata is stored.
What happens when a developer reaches their budget?
Admins get an email at 80%. At 100% of a member or project budget, the team's setting applies: downgrade, so the developer keeps working on cheaper models (Opus and Sonnet are taken out), or pause, so requests return HTTP 429 until the budget resets on the 1st or an admin raises it. The company-wide cap always blocks at 100%.
Which coding tools work with CodeRouter Team?
Claude Code through its Anthropic-compatible settings (ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL and ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN), and Cursor, Aider, Cline, Continue.dev, OpenClaw and the OpenAI SDK through the OpenAI-compatible base URL https://www.coderouter.io/api/v1. GitHub Copilot works through LiteLLM, as described in the integration docs.
Questions about a rollout: support@coderouter.io. How the routing performs: benchmark methodology and results. What we store and why: privacy policy.