u/samclaassen

TL;DR: our AI spend was growing faster than the output from it. The obvious move is a Claude/Codex team plan but the math doesn't work for me vs the model agnostic tools. Would love thoughts, here's my breakdown.

Quick comparison with math:

1. ChatGPT Team = $25-30/seat. Claude Team = about the same. Most people on one, power users on both. That's $300-700/mo before anyone requests the one-off subscriptions, and every seat is a silo. One person builds great prompts and we pay for 11 other people to not have them. Someone leaves, their setup walks out the door and the bill stays the same.

2. Grok = $30/user for Grok Business. Same per-seat math as Claude/ChatGPT with a different model behind it. Fine if your team lives on X or wants DeepSearch, but it doesn't solve the seat problem, it just changes whose seat you're renting.

3. Buzz = the most ambitious one. Full workspace where humans and agents both live. Also the problem: it's a whole second Slack, and getting a team to move into another app is a fight we lost in about two weeks. If your team has no entrenched chat tool, worth a real look.

4. Claude Tag = easiest start of anything we touched. Tag Claude in a Slack channel and it just works (shared context, admin controls, spend limits). But it's Claude only, Slack only, and everything past the basics is on you to wire up. A building block, not a product. Fine if someone wants to own that. Nobody here did.

5. Type = Unlimited seats for $50/mo, goes up based on usage. The team and the agents share the same tools and the same memory, so a new person joins and inherits everything day one (and you can connect the Claude/Codex subscriptions you already pay for, which alone saved us real money). The tradeoff is it asks for more buy-in than dropping a bot into Slack although it does work there too.

6. Lindy = starts at $50/seat and real usage pushes you to the $100 tier fast. Slick for personal automations but every agent belongs to one person, so it recreates the exact silo problem you're trying to kill. Great if you only need it for yourself.

7. Zapier Agents = it's Zapier. Great at wiring apps together and that's what it felt like. Set and forget automation, not something the team works with every day. Prices by tasks not seats, which is nice until your agents actually get used. From a product perspective probably what I'm least excited about tbh.

8. Viktor = $50/seat plus a credit system. Closest thing to an actual employee out of the box, does real end to end work across a ton of tools. But it's one very capable agent, not a workspace the team shapes. Felt like hiring a contractor vs building a bench. At 12 people that's $600/mo plus credits, which is the old math again.

Would love to hear what teams are paying for that actually works?

We're a small team of ~12 paying for individual Claude and ChatGPT seats. Part of the problem is just cost, but mostly it's being able to collaborate together. One of our best people built up months of prompts and workflows in her own account, and when she left we had to rebuild all of it from memory.

So we tried the team-AI options. Buzz (from Block not the crypto one) is genuinely interesting but it's a whole separate workspace, basically a second Slack, and getting the team to actually live in another app didn't go well. Claude Tag was the easiest to start since it just sits in your Slack, but it's Claude-only and we ended up doing a lot of admin wiring ourselves to make it useful. We're still using this today, but uncomfortable about it. Viktor felt the most like an actual employee out of the box, though it's more "one very capable agent" than a workspace the whole team shapes so not sure it's the category of what we are looking for. Type (AI workspace not the story tool) is nice because we were able to use it in Slack or the dedicated work space, and it also seemed good for the less technical members on the team.

Curious what everyone else is doing. Is everyone on Team Claude plans?