ChatGPT Team and Claude Team alternatives
per-seat AI chat for a whole company, with shared history and document upload · charges per-seat, per-month, whether or not a given seat is used
Per-seat pricing is a bad fit for a company where a few people use AI constantly and everyone else uses it occasionally. Self-hosting converts that into a metered API bill plus hosting, which wins above a certain headcount and loses below it. Do the arithmetic on your actual usage before switching.
What actually replaces it
A polished private chat over your own API keys, with document upload and real user accounts. Read the licence before you rebrand it.
A polished self-hosted chat interface over your own models or API keys, with document upload and user accounts built in.
Several providers and a library of configured agents behind one login.
A self-hostable chat interface that puts several model providers and a library of configured agents behind one login.
When to just keep paying
- You are a handful of heavy users — per-seat will genuinely be cheaper than metered tokens.
- Nobody wants to own auth, hosting and upgrades for an internal tool.
Head to head
We deliberately do not quote ChatGPT Team and Claude Team's prices — third-party pricing changes without notice and a stale figure is worse than none. The pricing model is what decides whether replacing it pays, and that is stated above.