ChatGPT Business, Claude Team and Grok Business are self-serve team plans priced per user in US dollars. Their Enterprise tiers differ in how they price usage, where they gate SSO, and how they isolate sensitive data. This page compares all three side by side and sets out which buyer situations favour each.
Every figure and policy below comes from the vendors' public pages, with a link and the date we checked it. There is no universal winner; the right choice depends on your identity, data residency, engineering stack and budget rules. Only comparing two of them? See ChatGPT vs Claude.
By Rob MacleanReviewed by Amanda KaburiseLast reviewed
Entry seats are priced per user a month across all three vendors, with Grok sitting slightly above ChatGPT and Claude on monthly list price. At Enterprise level, ChatGPT and Grok quote custom contracts, while Claude charges a published seat fee with all usage metered on top. In the Higher-usage row under Grok, Super and Ultra reflect the shared X Subscription seat tiers used with Cursor and Grok Bot.
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Prices in USD as of , excluding VAT. Check each vendor page before you buy.
SCIM is Enterprise only on all three platforms, and none of the three confirms South African data residency in public documentation. Key differences sit in entry-tier SSO (included on ChatGPT Business and Claude Team, Enterprise only on Grok), Enterprise Vault's dedicated data plane on Grok, and confirmed ZAR billing on ChatGPT's standard plans.
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These are our recommendations, anchored to the sourced facts above. Verify each constraint with your security and finance teams before signing an annual commitment.
We recommend the same six rollout steps regardless of vendor: pilot scope, identity and provisioning, admin and data policies, user enablement, measuring outcomes, and a scaling decision. Each guide below details the exact admin settings and rollout traps for its platform.
On monthly entry seats, ChatGPT Business Standard costs $25 per user a month ($20 per user a month annually), Claude Team Standard costs $25 per member a month ($20 per member a month annually), and Grok Business costs $30 per user a month. At Enterprise level, ChatGPT (No public price; contact OpenAI sales. Credit-based or token-based pricing is available) and Grok (No public price; contact SpaceXSI sales for custom rate limits, volume pricing and dedicated onboarding) use sales quotes, while Claude Enterprise publishes a seat fee ($20 per seat a month, billed annually) plus metered usage (All usage is billed on top at standard API rates; the seat fee includes no token allowance). Prices are in US dollars, excluding VAT, as of 30 October 2026.
None of the three confirms first-party hosting in South Africa. ChatGPT Enterprise: Enterprise only, in ten regions: the US, EU, UK, Japan, Canada, South Korea, Singapore, India, Australia and the UAE. South Africa is not one of them. Claude: In the US. Default processing may route through the US, Europe, Asia and Australia. Grok: Available on custom Enterprise plans; SpaceXSI does not publish a public list of regions; South Africa: Varies by region; check at checkout. Treat all three as cross-border transfers under POPIA unless a written contract commits otherwise.
SCIM directory sync is Enterprise only across all three (Enterprise only; Enterprise only; Enterprise only). Single sign-on differs at the entry tier: ChatGPT (SAML SSO on Business and Enterprise) and Claude (SSO and domain verification on Team and Enterprise) include SSO on their entry business plans, whereas Grok places Custom SSO on Enterprise (Custom SSO on Enterprise only).
ChatGPT: ZAR is a supported billing currency for standard paid plans; Enterprise is billed separately. Claude: Varies by region; check at checkout. Grok: Varies by region; check at checkout. All figures in our tables are USD list prices.
Grok Bot (often searched as Grokbot) access on Grok plans: Assigned seats on self-serve Grok Business can sign in to Grok Bot with that Grok account; Grok Enterprise customers arrange Grok Bot access with their account manager. Engineering teams adopting Cursor Teams also get Grok Bot on paid seats ($30 per user a month, with the Premium weekly usage pool; $100 per user a month, with the Super weekly usage pool (3.75x Premium)). See our Cursor and Grok Bot guide for weekly pool and governance rules.
None trains on business plan data by default. ChatGPT: Not used for training by default; feedback you choose to share is the exception. Claude: Not used for training by default; feedback you choose to share and the Development Partner Program are the exceptions. Grok: Not used for model training on Business or Enterprise.
Our AI workflow diagnostic takes about two weeks. It baselines one process, checks data and security feasibility, and ends with a go/no-go decision. It can conclude that you need no AI build at all.
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